{"id":21668,"date":"2022-06-20T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=21668"},"modified":"2022-06-20T04:19:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-19T22:49:26","slug":"air-india-plans-to-exceed-its-fleet-by-more-than-200-planes-in-4-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/20\/air-india-plans-to-exceed-its-fleet-by-more-than-200-planes-in-4-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India plans to exceed its fleet by more than 200 planes in 4-5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">According to a source close to the situation, <strong>Air India plans to expand its fleet by more than 200 jets<\/strong> over the next five years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;There isn&#8217;t any more time. The airline needs to expand quickly. &#8220;<strong><em>It&#8217;s stepping on the gas,&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> the aforementioned source explained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/airindia1_660_100120045956.jpg\" alt=\"According to a source close to the situation, Air India plans to expand its fleet by more than 200 jets over the next five years. \" class=\"wp-image-21669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/airindia1_660_100120045956.jpg 660w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/airindia1_660_100120045956-600x409.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/airindia1_660_100120045956-300x205.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><figcaption>image credits &#8211; brit<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">He also stated that narrowbody planes will account for <em>70% of the orders, while widebody planes would account for 30%. <\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;We&#8217;re in discussions with both Airbus and Boeing.&#8221;<\/p><p> &#8220;However, Boeing deliveries are behind schedule,&#8221; he remarked. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline is thought to be considering placing an order for the <strong>A350 wide-body planes <\/strong>from the European business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If it happens, it will be the freshly privatised airline&#8217;s first aircraft order since 2006. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2637-1310x874-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2637-1310x874-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2637-1310x874-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2637-1310x874-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2637-1310x874-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2637-1310x874-1-750x500.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2637-1310x874-1-1140x761.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG_2637-1310x874-1.jpg 1310w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>image credits to bit news<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Scherer said he <strong>couldn&#8217;t comment on negotiations about plane orders<\/strong> with Air India\/Tatas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>According to sources close to the situation, he and his team have been <strong>in talks with the Tatas for the past six months <\/strong>over Air India&#8217;s new aircraft orders.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p> According to the persons, N Chandrasekaran, chairman of the airline and the aviation-to-automobile business, has met with his <em>staff at Airbus&#8217; headquarters in Toulouse, France, <\/em>and its important manufacturing location in Hamburg, Germany. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a competitive bidding procedure in October of last year, <strong>the Tatas bought the loss-making<\/strong>, heavily indebted airline from the government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay Updated with us!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Our Telegram group for Latest Updates:- <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z\">https:\/\/t.me\/aviationa2z<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a source close to the situation, Air India plans to expand its fleet by more than 200 jets over the next five years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21670,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[399],"tags":[82,595,892,2030,3994,1594],"class_list":{"0":"post-21668","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-air-india","9":"tag-air-india-express","10":"tag-air-india-privatisation","11":"tag-aviation-a2z-news","12":"tag-fleet-expansion","13":"tag-tata-sons"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21671,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions\/21671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}