The first of Air India’s (AI) 13 Legacy Boeing 777 Widebodies came back from Singapore on Wednesday, who sports sports with an improved personal cab – new seat covers, fresh carpets and a sharp internal elevator.
The aircraft, registered as VT-ALK, returned from Singapore, where its interiors underwent “color, material and finish (CMF)” for 52 days to give passengers a new feeling and appearance.
It is only a temporary program for enhancement for aircraft interiors and includes new upholstery for passenger seats, new carpets and curtains and fresh coat on cabbage panels and toilets, the head of the airline clerk said. The interiors are now doing a new color scheme of the airline for seats.
The aim of AI focuses on closing the renewal program for 13 wide -angle aircraft used to fly some of the most profitable ultra -long routes to the US and Europe until December this year.
A more thorough transformation of these aircraft, such as the replacement of seats, as well as the non -functional screen of entertainment in the back of the seats, is now delayed until 2026 after it was originally planned in 2023.
The “retrofit” that includes SEAD and IFE to the Boeing 787 will be introduced this month with the first of these 27 aircraft, which will reconnect to the service in October, after two to three B787s are listed per month until all of them are upgraded. A similar exercise for 27 Legacy Boeing 787S will also be introduced this month.
Retrofit for narrow points has already taken off, while the first of the 27 A320 Neos completed this process last month. Working work on four such aircraft is said to have closed and the airline aims to complete the process for all 27 aircraft by the third quarter of 2025.
Published – April 2 2025 9:04
