AI rejects charges of flying `outdated' aircraft

Kozhikode: Asserting that it was not flying `outdated' aircraft anywhere in the country, India's national carrier Air India on Thursday said it was operating flights strictly adhering to the Director General of Civil Aviation rules.
`While AI Express flights, operating primarily from South to various Gulf destinations, are acquired less than three years back, flights operating from other places are purchased only since 1996,' AI's official spokesman Aby George said.
Rejecting the charges raised by 'Kerala Pravasi Association' that AI was operating 'outdated flights' from the Karipur international airport here, he said the 43 Express planes operated from the terminal every week were less than three years old. Some of them were acquired eight months back.
07/09/07 PTI/The Hindu

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