Air India (Mumbai) may sell its 27 Boeing 787 delivery positions to raise capital which means it may not become a Dreamliner customer according to this report by Rediff Business.
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Air India 777-337 ER VT-ALK (msn 36309) CDG (Yannick Delamarre), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Air India’s (Mumbai) pilots return to work today after a one-day strike protesting the lack of progress in paying their backlog of salaries due. Management promised it would pay the overdue salaries in stages. Air India is in a financial crisis.
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Air India’s (Mumbai) board of directors has approved the sale and lease back of its 27 Boeing 787-800s on order. The board also decidedย Air India may lease out excess capacity of two Boeing 747-400 aircraft and some 777-200 LR aircraft (at a future date), after the induction of Dreamliners.
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Copyright Photo: Robbie Shaw. Awaiting final work at Everett (Paine Field) is Air India’s future Boeing 787-837 VT-ANB (msn 36274).
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Lufthansa Airbus A380-841 D-AIMB (msn 041) FRA (Ton Jochems) (second A380), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Lufthansa (Frankfurt) will not be able to operate its new Airbus A380 to India according to this report by Reuters and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper.
Indian officials are apparently still upset about the Lufthansa-led Star Alliance rejection of Air India’s request to join the alliance due to its faltering financial position. Paybacks, even in the airline business, can be tough.
Meanwhile LH will add the A380 on the Frankfurt-Singapore route starting on October 30.
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Air India Boeing 777-237 LR VT-ALH (msn 36307) (Delhi 2010 sticker) AKL (Colin Hunter), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Air India (Mumbai) does not have the company funds to pay for the 27 new Boeing 787 Dreamliners it has on order according to India’s Civil Aviation Minister Vayalar Ravi and this article by Aviation Week. This came a day after the countryโs public auditing agency questioned the state-run airlineโs costly expansion plans.
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Air India 777-337 ER VT-ALK (msn 36309) CDG (Yannick Delamarre), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Air India (Mumbai) has failed to meet the requirements to join the Star Alliance. The 27 members have now put the the bid on hold to join the alliance.
The Star Alliance issued the following statement:
“The member airlines of the Star Alliance network and Air India have jointly concluded that the integration of Air India into the global airline alliance will be suspended. This is due to the fact that Air India has not met the minimum joining conditions that were contractually agreed in December 2007.
Following a recent review of the status of Air India’s application at a meeting held between the Indian Ministry for Civil Aviation, Star Alliance CEO, Jaan Albrecht and the Air India CMD, Arvind Jadhav, the decision to suspend has received subsequent confirmation by the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board.
Existing bilateral relationships with Star Alliance member airlines are not affected by this decision, which also leaves room to discuss a potential Alliance membership at a future stage, if deemed appropriate by both parties.”
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Air India Boeing 777-237 LR VT-ALH (msn 36307) (Delhi 2010 sticker) AKL (Colin Hunter), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Air India (Mumbai) has reinstated the 15 pilots it had suspended for their strike activities after the pilots called off their strike.
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Indian Airlines Airbus A320-231 VT-ESB (msn 398) DXB (Konstantin von Wedelstaedt) (ends operations), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Air India (Mumbai) at midnight tonight retired the brand and codes of subsidiary Indian Airlines (Mumbai). This ends the history of Indian.
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Air India Airbus A330-223 VT-IWB (msn 362) LHR (Antony J. Best), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Air India (Mumbai) is planning to lease 10 Airbus A320s and 10 Airbus A330s as well as 20 Bombardier CRJ700 regional jets.
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Air India Express Boeing 737-8HG WL VT-AXW (msn 36334) (Charminair) FRA (Bernhard Ross), originally uploaded by Airliners Gallery.
Air India (Mumbai) is considering a new name for its low-fare Air India Express subsidiary. The base will also be moved from Mumbai to Thiruvananthapuram according to the WSJ. Read the full report:
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