Air India CEO and Managing Director Campbell Wilson together with cabin crew and cockpit crew welcomes Air India’s first Airbus A350-900 (VT-JRA) that touches down at Delhi Airport in New Delhi on Saturday.
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Air India’s first wide-body A350-900 aircraft, sporting new model livery, arrived in New Delhi from European aviation main Airbus’ Toulouse facility in France.
The aircraft, registered as VT-JRA, touched down on the nationwide capital’s Indira Gandhi International Airport at 1346 hrs, making the Tata Group-owned airline the primary aircraft operator in India to have this sort of aircraft in its fleet, an announcement stated.
The supply flight is operated utilizing a particular name signal AI350, it stated.
The aircraft is the primary of Air India’s 20 Airbus A350-900 on order, with 5 extra scheduled for supply by March 2024, the airline stated.
As a part of its now rejigged 250 aircraft order with Airbus, Air India will purchase 40 A350s, comprising 20 every A350-900 and A350-1000 aircraft, together with 140 narrow-body A321neo and 70 A320neo planes.
The arrival of the primary Airbus A350-900 is, in some ways, “a declaration of Indian aviation’s resurgence on the world stage,” Air India Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Campbell Wilson stated.
“As a symbol of the new age of flying, the A350 promises a world-class, long-haul travel experience on our non-stop routes. Its excellent flight economics and technology underscore our dedication to commercially successful operations and to achieving our sustainability goals,” Mr. Wilson added.
The airline has already introduced that originally this aircraft will probably be operated on short-haul routes and later be deployed for long-haul flights.
The new aircraft will enter industrial service in January subsequent 12 months, initially working domestically for crew familiarisation, adopted by longer-haul flying to locations throughout continents, the airline stated.
It additionally stated that the schedule of economic operations of the A350 will probably be introduced in the approaching weeks.
The 316-seater A350-900 aircraft comes in a three-class cabin configuration with 28 non-public enterprise class suites with full-flat beds, 24 premium financial system seats with further legroom and 264 spacious financial system class seats, Air India stated.
