Tata Group has chalked out an aggressive expansion plan for Air India and Air India Express, inducting six Boeing 777-200 aircraft and 25 Airbus A320 Neos by the first quarter of next year, people aware of the development said.
While the salt-to-steel conglomerate is in the final stages of closing orders for around 200 narrowbody and widebody jets, it is planning to take aircraft from the secondary lease market to beef up capacity in the short term, they said.