Air India’s Boeing 787 to get airborne on 19 September
12 Sep 2012
Air India will deploy its new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft on its first commercial flight on 19 September with Delhi-Chennai and Delhi-Bangalore flights.
The national carrier will fly the Dreamliner aircraft to six to seven cities in the country before starting international flights in winter, chairman and managing director Rohit Nandan said.
The aircraft will fly to six to seven cities around the country and launch international operations during winter.
Earlier, launching Air India's first B787 Dreamliner aircraft at a function at the Indira Gandhi International Airport today, civil aviation minister Ajit Singh said Air India will get 5 more B787s in the current year up to December 2012.
The remaining 21 of the 27 Boeing 787s will be delivered between 2013 and March 2016, Singh said.
Air India, the minister said, had, in December 2005, signed agreement with Boeing for purchase of 68 aircraft, including 23 B777s, 18 B737s and 27 B787s.
