Air India may ramp up fleet to 200

National carrier Air India may substantially scale up its fleet size to nearly 200 aircraft by 2011. It is currently undertaking an internal exercise to assess demand for aircraft till 2011 and beyond, company chairman V Thulasidas told ET.


As part of this exercise, a fresh fleet expansion plan is being contemplated in order to cater to traffic growth.

“We are working on traffic projections beyond 2011,” Mr Thulasidas said. The two merged national carriers would have a combined fleet size of around 125 aircraft by 2011 after taking current orders (which are being executed) into account.

The old Air India and Indian Airlines had placed orders for 111 extra aircraft in 2005-06. These are in the process of being inducted into the fleet by 2011.

05/09/07 Economic Times