New Delhi: Air India has prepared a plan to add 25 aircraft, the stateowned carrier's first fleet expansion since an order for 111 aircraft placed in 2006, as it seeks to expand network to underserved regions.
"These aircraft will be used to strengthen our network to smaller cities, which will be connected through an Airbus 320 aircraft and supplemented by another flight with an ATR aircraft," said a senior Air India official, who did not want to be identified. The official added that all the additional aircraft (15 Airbus 320s and 10 ATR 72s) will be leased and board approval for their induction will be taken soon.
Of the 2006 order for 111 planes - 43 Airbus and 68 Boeings - the airline has inducted 102, with nine Boeing aircraft still to be brought in.
Air India operates a fleet of 115 aircraft, according to its website, and recently inducted five new Airbus 320s to replace old planes. Subsidiary Alliance Air, which connects mainly tier-2 and tier-3 cities, operates eight ATRs and two CRJs and has plans to add three ATRs by next year.
02/11/15 Mihir Mishra/Economic Times
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"These aircraft will be used to strengthen our network to smaller cities, which will be connected through an Airbus 320 aircraft and supplemented by another flight with an ATR aircraft," said a senior Air India official, who did not want to be identified. The official added that all the additional aircraft (15 Airbus 320s and 10 ATR 72s) will be leased and board approval for their induction will be taken soon.
Of the 2006 order for 111 planes - 43 Airbus and 68 Boeings - the airline has inducted 102, with nine Boeing aircraft still to be brought in.
Air India operates a fleet of 115 aircraft, according to its website, and recently inducted five new Airbus 320s to replace old planes. Subsidiary Alliance Air, which connects mainly tier-2 and tier-3 cities, operates eight ATRs and two CRJs and has plans to add three ATRs by next year.
02/11/15 Mihir Mishra/Economic Times
