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Air India connected Thursday concluded the revamp of 50% of the narrowbody craft it inherited aft privatisation with 27 A320neo craft present featuring upgraded interiors, including caller seats, in-flight amusement systems, carpets, and charging ports.
The hose has 27 A320 neos and 23 A320 ceos since earlier privatisation successful its narrowbody fleet utilized chiefly for home flying, and shorter planetary routes. The remaining 23 are expected to spell into retrofit adjacent year.
However, station 2022 Air India has besides added 14 caller A320 neos, arsenic good arsenic 63 A320s and A321s by virtuousness of its merger with Vistara past November.
The 27 revamped narrowbodies volition beryllium utilised for arsenic galore arsenic 3,024 play flights connected 82 home and short-haul-international routes, the hose said successful a property statement.
The narrowbody revamp was portion of signifier 1 of the airline’s US$ 400 cardinal fleet retrofit programme for older aircraft. The 2nd signifier of revamp took disconnected successful July 2025 for 27 Boeing 787 craft and volition reason by mid 2027.
Starting successful aboriginal 2027, Air India volition additionally retrofit 13 of its bequest Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, which are chiefly utilized for US flights. This is aimed for completion by October 2028, with the timeline having shifted owed to proviso concatenation delays.
These craft are utilized for flights to Europe, Far East and Australia. The hose has full 187 craft successful its fleet, which see 60 widebodies.
Since its privatisation, the caller widebodies added to Air India, which is the full-service limb wrong the Group that besides includes fund bearer Air India Express, see six caller A350s and different 14 Boeing 777s leased from assorted airlines.
It volition besides beryllium adding a widebody each six weeks adjacent year, including 2 A350s. However, it volition besides beryllium returning 5 of these 777s to Delta Airlines.
