Mumbai: Civil aviation ministry has asked the debt-ridden state-owned carrier Air India to fly to new long distance routes if the national carrier gets the government’s nod to go ahead with the purchase of Boeing 787 aircraft.
“Aircraft purchases cannot be an arbitrary decision," said an official from the ministry on condition of anonymity. “The airline has to have a plan on how to make the aircraft purchase profitable and we have communicated the same to them.”
“Air India’s fleet of wide-body aircraft is quite young and any purchase of Boeing 787 has to be commercially viable,” he added. “We need to know that Air India will use the new aircraft efficiently and perhaps even deploy them on new routes.”
People familiar with the development in the ministry said Air India will have to come up with a viable plan to use 787 planes on new routes.
21/10/11 Debabrata Das/Financial Express
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