Tuesday, December 06, 2016

Air India to get its 23rd Boeing 787 in Jan 2017

Air India will conclude the procurement of 27 Boeing 787 aircraft before April 2017, and in early January, it will take delivery of the 23rd Boeing Dreamliner.

“We will be taking delivery of 23rd B-787 Dreamliner on January 9 and hope to have the last batch of four more Dreamliners by the end of this fiscal year. That will have us completing the process that started more than a decade ago in 2006," Vinod Hejmadi, Finance Director, Air India, told PTI.  

In 2016, American aviation major delivered only two Dreamliners to Air India against the plan of three. Boeing was supposed to give the delivery of the 23rd plane in the month of November or December. In January 2006, Air India had put an order of around 68 aircraft with the Boeing, making it one of the first customer to  place an order for the ‘game-changing aircraft’.
05/12/16 The Dollar Business
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