Chandrasekaran mentioned the brand new emblem, which merges AI’s famed jharoka (window) and Vistara’s purple with AI’s conventional crimson and white “signifies limitless possibilities, progressiveness, and confidence.” The Airbus 350s that may be a part of the AI fleet this yr would be the first to function the brand new livery.
Terming AI’s revival as a world class airline a “national mission”, Chandra mentioned: “This requires enormous amounts of work because of where we start from… on technology, fleet, maintenance, ground handling, all aspects of operations and more…”
“Our fleet requires a lot of work. While we have placed one of the largest fleet orders, both narrow-and-wide-body, it’s going to take time for them to arrive. In the meanwhile, we have to refurbish and get our current fleet to acceptable levels,” he mentioned.
Wilson says one-third of AI’s wide-body fleet will likely be fashionable plane by subsequent yr. Then, the refurbishment of present wide-bodies will start. “All our wide-bodies will have new state-of-the-art facilities including onboard WiFi by end of 2025,” Wilson mentioned.
Meanwhile, the lack of Tata group airways – Air India, AirAsia India and Vistara – was Rs 15,531.7 crore in 2022-23. Air India Express was the group’s solely worthwhile airline final fiscal. Tatas had acquired AI and AI Express in January 2022.
According to Tata Sons annual report 2022-23, AI’s loss final fiscal was virtually Rs 11,388 crore on a turnover of Rs 31,377 crore. AIX Connect (earlier AirAsia India) made a lack of Rs 2,750 crore on a turnover of Rs 4,310 crore. Vistara posted a loss Rs 1,393 crore on a turnover of Rs 11,784 crore. AI Express noticed a revenue of Rs 117 crore on a turnover of Rs 5,669 crore.
