Mumbai: National carrier Air India (AI) will face delay in getting delivery of its remaining Boeing Dreamliner planes, as it lost slots while deciding on whether to switch to a stretched version of the aircraft family, said three people aware of the matter.
The airline will now get its next delivery only in the next financial year, instead of March when it was supposed to get two more planes, said one of the persons cited above. It currently has 21 Dreamliners in its fleet, and will get six more. "AI's original order was for 787-8 planes. It was planning to switch the remaining orders to 787-9s, but didn't get a board approval. In the meantime, it has lost slots for the original order," said the second among the persons cited above.
Read news in full 17/08/15 Neha Tyagi & Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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