Mumbai: National carrier Air India plans to lease 14 Airbus A320 planes, according to a document on its website
The national carrier has out two separate tenders calling for bids for 14 old and an additional 14 new A320 planes. It will then choose a total 14 planes from the responses.
The lease period is up to six years.
The airline wants the delivery of the first three planes by March 2015, the next five by March 2016 and the remaining by the end of the next fiscal year.
Last date for the receipt of bids is May 29.
Air India was one of the launch operators of the A320 aircraft and purchased 31 of them during the years 1989 to 1993. Again, during 2006 to 2010, it purchased 43 A320 family aircraft as part of its mammoth $15 billion 111 plane order to Toulouse-based Airbus and its American rival plane-maker Boeing.
24/04/14 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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The national carrier has out two separate tenders calling for bids for 14 old and an additional 14 new A320 planes. It will then choose a total 14 planes from the responses.
The lease period is up to six years.
The airline wants the delivery of the first three planes by March 2015, the next five by March 2016 and the remaining by the end of the next fiscal year.
Last date for the receipt of bids is May 29.
Air India was one of the launch operators of the A320 aircraft and purchased 31 of them during the years 1989 to 1993. Again, during 2006 to 2010, it purchased 43 A320 family aircraft as part of its mammoth $15 billion 111 plane order to Toulouse-based Airbus and its American rival plane-maker Boeing.
24/04/14 Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
