{"id":542124,"date":"2022-12-09T11:54:07","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T06:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=542124"},"modified":"2022-12-09T13:13:59","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T07:43:59","slug":"air-india-to-spend-400-million-on-cabin-upgrade-of-existing-40-wide-body-aircraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/air-india-to-spend-400-million-on-cabin-upgrade-of-existing-40-wide-body-aircraft\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India to spend $400 million on cabin upgrade of existing 40 wide body aircraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In a welcome news for Air India&#8217;s medium to ultra long haul international travellers, the Maharaja will spend $400 million on the desperately needed cabin refurbishment of its wide body aircraft. AI&#8217;s existing twin aisle Boeing 777 and B787s will get a premium economy apart from the long-awaited completely new seats and inflight entertainment system in all cabin classes. The first refurbished plane will be ready by mid-2024, due to current global supply chain constraints.<\/p>\n<p>A poor inflight experience and lack of punctuality were passengers&#8217; biggest pain point with state-owned AI, something will soon change now under the Tatas. The founder group will refurbish all the existing 27 Boeing B787 and 13 B777 aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This refurbishment will see a complete overhaul of existing cabin interiors, including the addition of latest generation seats and best in-class inflight entertainment across all classes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: In a welcome news for Air India&#8217;s medium to ultra long haul international travellers, the Maharaja will spend $400 million on the desperately needed cabin refurbishment of its wide body aircraft. AI&#8217;s existing twin aisle Boeing 777 and B787s will get a premium economy apart from the long-awaited completely new seats and inflight entertainment system in all cabin classes. The first refurbished plane will be ready by mid-2024, due to current global supply chain constraints. A poor inflight experience and lack of punctuality were passengers&#8217; biggest pain point with state-owned AI, something will soon change now under the Tatas. [&hellip;]<\/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-542124","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\/542124","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=542124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}