Loss-making Air India, which has embarked on a transformation plan, on Friday said that a third of its wide-body fleet will have modern seats and inflight entertainment systems by March 2024. Earlier this year, the Tata Group-owned airline placed orders for 470 aircraft, including 70 wide-body ones, with Airbus and Boeing.
“By the end of this financial year, the six new A350s, together with the 5 leased B772LRs and 9 other B773ERs we’re also inducting, will mean that our wide-body fleet will have grown in size by 30 per cent within a year,” Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson said in his weekly message to the staff on Friday.
