Air India primarily uses Boeing 777s and 787s for their longhaul flights. Their 787s are reasonably decent, and feature fully flat business class seats in a 2-2-2 configuration.
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Why would you fit a full passenger version on the plane, fly it to Delhi and return, plus strip it back completely for presumably major modifications altogether ? Without having done much own research on this, something about this story doesn't quite add up
Maybe plans have changed, but my understanding from a few months ago was that ALV is due to go into passenger service and the next 2 are the ones slated for VIP fit-out.
There was also discussion ongoing at the time about taking all 3 new deliveries for passenger service and to push a couple of the higher cycle 77Ws to the VIP fleet to balance maintenance requirements, but that seems to have gone nowhere.
Indians being Indians.... to think that people in Florida call cops when McDonalds runs out of chicken nuggets lol
The interior looks new, but otherwise the same as any other AI 777 business class. Nothing to see here.
@doggo - really ?! looks like you might be confused with our native Indians :-p !
Just a caution: According to a local Newspaper, AI plan on using the new 777s on domestic routes. So if u wanna fly it international u gotta wait till around September.
Did they finally remove F from their 777s. It seems odd that they would not share a picture of F otherwise.
The final two are intended for VIP service, before which they are stopping in Israel to undergo some added mods before finally arriving to India for final mods and coms installations. The interior will be vastly different and not publicized although the non-essential personnel section (i.e. press core sections) will remain as Y. Most modifications will occur up front where the VIPs and the heads of state will be seated. Info from MEA friend and avgeek. Just for the record, the interior of the AI 747s are modified significantly before being used for government travels.
@19nixxon91
It's called bureaucratic incompetence. It's the same in all countries with large governments
New airplanes are not what's holding Air India back from being a good airline.
Air India has been put on sale and TATA group will buy it hopefully within 2018. It was originally their airline which the govt had nationalized forcefully several decades back.
It has sucked enough Indian taxpayer money and it's time for it to be privatized!
Uhhhh... Not sure how the 777 participated in the Republic Day Parade, but sure if you say so.
Happy Republic Day! Hats off to the Indian PM in walking along the Raj Path instead of opting to hide and drive away in his motorcade.
Boeing designs a basic 777 body and offers a variety of luxury designs to choose from and countries with deep pockets (NOT FOR THEIR BRAINS) then place an order and takes its delivery. Welcome to the modern world that Indians are seeing in this report that produced some idiotic reader reactions!
Not much to do with Air India, but it's sad that 3-3-3 on a 777 is now considered "generous"