Tata-led Air India Plans to Expand Internationally

Air India CEO Campbell Wilson announced on January 1 that the airline, which ordered 100 additional planes at the tail end of 2024, will undergo massive expansions and boost its worldwide coverage in 2025. In his New Year's greetings, Wilson announced that the Air India Group fleet has grown to 300 aircraft thanks to mergers and new aircraft deliveries. He also promised that the airline's global coverage will continue to expand in the years to come.

In late 2024, the four Tata airlines merged into one, becoming Air India, and another, Air India Express, which offered low-cost flights. Wilson announced that the former Vistara planes are currently flying internal routes connecting major cities as well as important international trips to places like Frankfurt and Singapore. The fleet size of the Air India Group has increased to 300 aircraft as a result of these mergers and new aircraft deliveries. The new addition of 100 aircraft to Air India's order book, enhancing the earlier promise for 470 announced in 2023, will no doubt contribute to Air India's further expansion in global coverage in the years to come, as per Wilson.

Further Expansion Plans

From Delhi to London and New York, over a hundred brand-new planes are taking to the skies, including the first Airbus A350 in India. These are a portion of the one-third of Air India's twin-aisle aircraft that will be upgraded in a similar fashion over the course of the next two years. The company's single-aisle fleet, which flies to local and short-haul foreign destinations, is undergoing an interior renovation that will be finished by mid-2025, according to Wilson.

Adding More Training Centres

In addition to the recently opened training centre in Gurugram, which is 800,000 square feet, the largest in South Asia, Wilson mentioned a brand-new 12-bay maintenance facility and training school in Bengaluru and a new flight school in Amravati, both of which would support the new aircraft. Wilson went on to say that other major cities will quickly follow Bengaluru's new premium class lounge in 2025, with another opening in Delhi the following year, and so on. According to him, every part of Air India's operations is being upgraded as part of the company's transformation. This includes systems, processes, infrastructure, equipment, and people.

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According to Wilson, Air India will celebrate its third anniversary of returning to the Tata Group in January 2025, which is a major milestone in the company's history. Meanwhile, Air India is in the midst of its Vihaan.AI transformation initiative, a five-year endeavour that will hopefully see the company become a top-tier international airline with a uniquely Indian flavour.

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