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747-237 · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:26 pm Post subject:

There are now 2 x 777s (1 x 77L and 1 x 77W) in AI colors at KPAE

http://paineairport.com/images/kpae5387.jpg

AI's latest 77W, VT-ALP is close to delivery

Check out the pics in the Photography section

justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

vivekman · Member Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 1897 Location: BOM

G-BYGB · Posted: Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:29 pm Post subject:

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

AI code will replace the IC code on MAA - SIN routes from September

IC 555/556 --> AI 446/447
IC 557/558 --> AI 448/449

So the whole code sharing business will go and I just hope someone here tells AI to place AI and AIX flights separately and not together.

Boeing7xx · Member Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 477 Location: WSSS

Two 74's are tech.... schedules are getting messed up and the lone 330 is going off the japan route... expect more 777's to take over.

747-237 · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:15 pm Post subject:

Karan69 · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 1334

Spiderguy252 · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 6:41 pm Post subject:

The T7s should be more than sufficient to cover these routes.
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avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

AI should stick to their plan of returning all the leased aircrafts.

Which directly implies it is better if they operate RUH/JED with the B744 it would be better and maybe in the future we may see B77Ws doing them, who knows?

Jaysit · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 4346

744 service as of Sep 1, 2009 will be restricted to Saudi routes only. The BOM-FRA-EWR flight will be operated with the 77W as of that date. So 4 744s will be more than adequate to do the Saudi runs.

Boeing7xx · Member Joined: 23 Dec 2006 Posts: 477 Location: WSSS

Holy Cow, and i hate to say this, but you guys are more informed than our roster.....

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

xterra · Member Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 595 Location: DONT KNO

can anyone update the status of the ex UA 777s and the 2x A330s?
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747-237 · Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 10:43 pm Post subject:

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

Ok I think gradually there is a code transfer going on from IC to AI

MAA - SIN will soon have the following change:

IC 555/556 --> AI 446/447
IC 557/558 --> AI 448/449

* HYD-AMD-KWI

IC 981/982 --> AI 851/850

* CCJ-BOM-KWI

IC 993/994 --> AI 853/852

* MAA-GOI-KWI

IC 575/576 --> AI 855/854

So IC lfights ex SIN and ex KWI have been now fully converted to AI flights.

AS and when it is updated I shall post it.

777-237LR · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 140

AI Boss speaks his mind. Arvind Jadhav's stern views on Air Indians, and what plans he has for AI, in Businessworld dated 17th Aug 09

Spiderguy252 · Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:26 pm Post subject:

sri_bom · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 2365 Location: Singapore

Air India announced plans to overhaul the interiors of 43 A320 family aircraft formerly operated by Indian Airlines to match the interiors of the rest of the carrier’s fleet (Hindu Business Line, 11-Aug-2009).

Sri_Bom

sumantra · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 4685 Location: New Delhi

sammyk · Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 11:11 am Post subject:

Somehow they have money for this?

himmat01 · Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1392 Location: DEL

The old A320s were to be transferred to AIX. Why do they require PTVs for a low cost carrier? In any case, these A320s are 20 years old and will be phased out in a couple of years.

xterra · Member Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 595 Location: DONT KNO

So if 320s get transfered to AIX... then they get AIX c/s.. which is awsome.. 320s would look great.

I would like the double bogey 320s to get transferred so that we got ane xotic bogey configured 320 with an exotic livery.. Smile

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jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

It all this code-changing still going to be little more than lipsitck on the same nasty old pig? Or it it going to be an actual Air India flight, using AI's airport terminals, check-in desks, cutlery, crew, etc?

iflytb20 · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:44 am Post subject:

Oops...sorry Double post.

iflytb20 · Posted: Sun Aug 16, 2009 9:49 am Post subject:

http://www.businessworld.in/index.php/Interviews/The-Time-For.html

justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

I know this has nothing to do with aviation directly, but the person who came up with this headline, has a wicked sense of pun!! Smile

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=VE9JQkcvMjAwOS8wOC8xNiNBcjAxMzA1

maut3000 · Member Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 160 Location: Mumbai

Does anyone know/have an idea that the Air India LCC proposal is down in the dumps???

garytare · Member Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 50 Location: MUMBAI

Mumbai/New Delhi, Aug. 21 In a complete volte-face in less than 24-hours Air India on Friday clarified that it “was in dialogue with various unions/associations/guild on Productivity Linked Incentive (PLI) reduction.”

Late on Thursday, the airline had issued a statement saying that the Air India board had decided to reduce PLI to employees / flying allowance paid to crew by 50 per cent.

The statement also quoted the Chairman and Managing Director, Mr Arvind Jadhav, as thanking the unions / employees for their foresight in “accepting the board’s decision”.

The statement added that the reduction will be there till an alternate formula for governing PLI is put in place within three months.

Mr Jadhav said, “The rationalisation of manpower costs will help in hastening the turnaround process, which has been initiated with the support of the Government.”

However, in Friday’s statement, the spokesperson of Air India said, “Mr Arvind Jadhav met representatives of various unions late last night with union leaders agreeing to revert by early next week after discussing the issue with the office bearers and committee members.”

No decision, say unions
Earlier in the day, the union and association leaders that Business Line spoke to denied that they have agreed to any cut in the PLI. “We continue to support the turnaround plan of the airline, however, these (PLI/flying allowance) are bilateral settlements and no decision has been taken on the same. AICCA (All India Cabin Crew Association) has called an emergency general body meeting to discuss the matter with its membership and is open to dialogue,” Mr Sanjay Lazar, General Secretary, AICCA, told Business Line.
Source The Hindu Business Line

garytare · Member Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 50 Location: MUMBAI

garytare · Member Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 50 Location: MUMBAI

I can see 3 AI 77W in the picture oneon the left and other 2 on the right any idea when these airplanes will be dilivered as thers was a rumour of cancellation of last 6 77W

jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

So its nearly September and I was wondering if anyone knew about:

1. San Francisco: Will this flight actually happen anytime soon?
2. Toronto: Any update on earlier announcements that this flight will go through AI's "hub" at Frankfurt instead of Heathrow from the winter timetable?

sammyk · Posted: Wed Aug 26, 2009 9:10 am Post subject:

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

AI will now code share on SQ's day flights between BOM and SIN. As of now barring BOM - SIN and MAA - SIN AI has its code on all SQ flights out India to SIN including Silk Air flights.

The only SQ flights to India that do not carry AI code are SQ 424/423 (SIN-BOM-SIN) and SQ 528/529 (SIN- MAA-SIN).

SQ 422/421 will carry AI's code and thus will be able to offer connections between SIN and DXB/JED/KWI/MCT via BOM.

ryder1650 · Member Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 554

So we are well into Sept and AI has not formally announced new LR service with the new planes it has received. Have they decided against it and will use the new planes on existing routes while retiring the old planes?

maut3000 · Member Joined: 14 Mar 2007 Posts: 160 Location: Mumbai

One thing I know for certain is that SFO is not happening Sad

Nimish · Posted: Wed Sep 09, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject:

jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

avbuff · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 5031

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/rat-delays-air-india-amritsar-london-flight_100252507.html

Amritsar, Sep 26 (IANS) A rat delayed a London-bound Air India flight from the Rajasansi airport here Saturday morning.
Flight AI-187, which was scheduled to depart at 6.30 a.m. Saturday, had not left the airport even three hours later. There were 238 passengers on the flight.

“A rat entered the aircraft and the staff was searching for it. The flight has been delayed. Air India is getting a new aircraft to take the passengers to London,” airport director Chinson Panakal told IANS.

Airport officials said some passengers noticed the rat in the plane and informed the staff. The passengers were taken off the plane and were waiting at the airport for Air India to make alternate arrangements.

Some of the passengers said they were being unnecessarily harassed due to negligence of the airline staff.

Passengers, especially those with children and old people, said they were being made to suffer due to inadequate arrangements.

The nearly 10-hour flight is likely to get delayed by 7-8 hours, an Air India official said.

“We are trying to make arrangements to take the passengers to London. The flight can now leave by 2 p.m. only after a new aircraft arrives,” Air India manager Ashwini Kumar Arora told IANS.

“It is not only the question of finding the rat. The aircraft (in which the rat was seen) will have to undergo all security checks under the DGCA (Directorate General of Civil Aviation) guidelines. That will take a long time,” Arora added.

Read more: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/business/rat-delays-air-india-amritsar-london-flight_100252507.html#ixzz0SBaxNhJL

Just to clarify this is the leased B777 and not a new one.