Air India becomes the first to use Taxibot on commercial Airbus flight
Air India on Tuesday became the first airline in the world to use a Taxibot on a A320 aircraft with passengers onboard.
Taxibot is a robot-used aircraft tractor for taxiing an aircraft from parking bay to runway and vice versa.
On Tuesday morning, the national carrier’s Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani flagged off flight AI665 – which was carried to runway using Taxibot at terminal 3 of the Delhi airport – to Mumbai.
With Taxibot it is possible to tow an aircraft from the parking bay to the runway with its engines switched off.
It is a pilot controlled semi-robotic towbarless aircraft tractor used as an alternate taxiing equipment.
