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Home » Travel » Air India Scraps Four 777s But Wants Five From Jet Airways…
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Air India Scraps Four 777s But Wants Five From Jet Airways…

Matthew Klint Posted onApril 25, 2019November 14, 2023 5 Comments

a large white and red airplane on a runway

Air India has approached the State Bank of India to lease five Boeing 777 aircraft owned by now-defunct Jet Airways. The irony, though, is that Air India cannot even afford to keep its own (relatively young) 777s flying!

As Jet Airways continues to explore ways to save itself and resume flying, it is looking into leasing out five of its 777s in order to raise capital. Air India is interested, even though the airline has four of its own 777s that are currently grounded.

Indeed, 19 planes in the Air India fleet have been grounded due to a shortage of parts (read: money). When asked about this by the Indian Express, an Air India official confirmed the dilemma:

There are 19 aircraft grounded and these include Boeing 777, Boeing 787, Boeing 747 and Airbus A320s. Some of these aircraft are expected to be back in service by August.

It’s a sad state of affairs for Air India, not just for Jet. The cash-strapped, perennial-loss leader has made a practice of ripping parts of new aircraft in order to service older aircraft. An official with Air India Engineering Services Ltd, (Air India’s maintenance, repair, and overhaul [MRO] subsidiary) added:

We do not have funds to acquire parts for these planes, so we are taking them from newly delivered planes.

We’re talking mostly small things, like microphones…not that it makes the situation any less pathetic…

CONCLUSION

With Air India currently the last Indian intercontinental airline standing, it’s no surprise it wants to take advantage of Jet while it is down. Still, it seems like the blind leading the blind…

Image: Bill Abbott / Flickr CC 2.0

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Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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5 Comments

  1. ron Reply
    April 25, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    Unrelated, but good to see the comment section is fixed. For about a week it was impossible to comment as the name and email boxes where blocked.

  2. ron Reply
    April 25, 2019 at 10:05 pm

    Unrelated, but good to see the comment section is fixed. For about a week it was impossible to comment as the name and email boxes were blocked.

  3. Stuart Reply
    April 25, 2019 at 10:13 pm

    Good calll@Ron. I thought it was me and I got banned somehow, lol

  4. 121Pilot Reply
    April 26, 2019 at 10:25 am

    I’m especially amazed that they are pulling parts from new frames to keep older ones in the air. You would think it would be done the other way around.

    There clearly must be significant structural issues with running an Indian airline that make it impossible. I don’t know what those are but it would be interesting to know. Because as Matthew notes all of them except for the state run vanity project have failed. And Air India would have failed long ago of normal market realities could prevail.

    • 121Pilot Reply
      April 26, 2019 at 10:28 am

      Side note. Were I Jet I’d be quite nervous about what Air India would do to airplanes it got on short term leases when it can’t even maintain the planes it owns. I could see the lot being rendered unairworthy is a very short period under Air India’s care.

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