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THE MONDAY INTERVIEW: V THULASIDAS

“We have all brand new aircraft in the AI-Express fleet”

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Merged entity to feature among top 20 in world: Thulsidas
Thulasidas has said the merger of Air India and Indian was essential and the new entity is expected to feature among the top 20 airlines of the world, according to a UNI report. He was speaking after his election to the Aeronautical Society of India’s ’Aviation Nite-07’ as president .
The CMD also revealed that post-merger Air India is expected to join one of the three networks of international carriers.

Talking about the new 777-200 LRs, he said there are many new features and is an aircraft tailor made for the route it is to operate on. It is a specific aircraft for a specific purpose. "Therefore, I guarantee that passengers will have a extremely superior inflight experience. No other rival airline has this aircraft and it is this aircraft that will take Air India back to its old days of glory." The IFE itself has about 800 hours of programming and will be used to enhance revenue from advertising. Added to this will be internet services. Thulasidass also said that after Boeing stopped "Connexion", Air India had found an alternate service provider for this. Once again, Air India will be one of the few airlines offering this service.

He added that industrialist Ratan Tata has himself selected the first class seats for the new aircraft which would be exquisite and superior to the competition.
On the mascot for the merged airlines, he said Air India’s ’Maharaja’ would be the automatic choice as Indian does not have a mascot, he said.

On its cargo service, Tulsidas said Air India has already converted two of its A310 aircraft for this purpose and four more would be converted.
There was also proposal to convert 2 B747-300s. Six B737-200 with Alliance Air is also being converted for the cargo service. With this, Air India cargo will be a top class airline.