Air India revival at midway of a 5-day match: CEO Campbell Wilson

Published On : 2024-11-29T11:12:36+0530 [ IST ] | Author : Mayur_Tembhare
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The revival of Air India is not a T20 match but a five-day one currently at lunch on day three. That's how Air India MD & CEOCampbell Wilsonon described the Tata Group's mammoth task at hand with the Maharaja

Amid continuing poor cabin product, flight delays and integration issues the veteran of Singapore Airlines admitted: "We have work to do but what we have achieved in just over two years has few parallels among airlines globally." While passengers on costly but delayed intercontinental flights with broken seats have begun questioning the pace of change

Crippling global supply chain constraints are leading to longer than expected waits for inducting new planes. This has made the task of revamping old legacy fleet more difficult despite Tatas spending billions of

The health of AI's legacy planes is not as good as we would like it to be. Coupled with weather and airspace issues, when even one factor causes a delay it takes a while to catch up. There are (less than required) non-stop flights to North America but no wide body aircraft are available globally as of now. We had an opportunity to lease some of these planes and added flights

While this remains work in progress AI has been more successful in some other tasks. The average age of cabin crew has now dropped to 28 from earlier 40s in AI's state-owned days.

Most of the aircraft coming in the next few months will be narrow body and then wide body will be taken out of service for revamping. So the growth will come mainly from domestic and nearby international sectors for about two years. When revamped old wide bodies and new ones join the fleet this segment will grow.

Source : Reporters From Sunrise Chronicles

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