NEW DELHI: Air India is not retiring the Boeing 747s and the jumbo jets \u201cwill continue to remain an integral part” of its fleet, the airline said in a statement.
\n\u201cIt has been reported that Air India is set to retire its Boeing 747 aircraft from its fleet and will be operating its last flight tomorrow (March 10)\u2026. B747 will continue to remain an integral part of our fleet,\u201d AI tweeted on Tuesday.
\n#FlyAI : It has been reported in a section of media that Air India is set to retire its Boeing 747 aircraft from it\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/h255vdo35c
\n\u2014 Air India (@airindiain) 1615290790000
\nTOI story on Monday had said AI is considering \/ planning to phasing out the jumbo jets and did not talk about any date for the last flight by this aircraft.
\nIt had quoted a senior official as saying, \u201cWe are planning to phase out the jumbo jets. The final decision will be taken by AI board, possibly in its next meeting.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NEW DELHI: Air India is not retiring the Boeing 747s and the jumbo jets \u201cwill continue to remain an integral part” of its fleet, the airline said in a statement. \u201cIt has been reported that Air India is set to retire its Boeing 747 aircraft from its fleet and will be operating its last flight tomorrow (March 10)\u2026. B747 will continue to remain an integral part of our fleet,\u201d AI tweeted on Tuesday. #FlyAI : It has been reported in a section of media that Air India is set to retire its Boeing 747 aircraft from it\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/h255vdo35c \u2014 Air […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}