Just about ten days ago, we wrote about Air India planning to fly the Boeing 747 aircraft on domestic runs between Mumbai and Delhi and Kolkata and Delhi. The flight was put out as a special flight to relieve some of the extra stress on the aviation system due to Jet Airways not being around anymore, and Air India thought it might be appropriate to put out some old birds to good use.
The flights that were supposed to be operated by these aircraft were BOM-DEL-BOM AI867/868 and DEL-CCU-DEL AI20/701. The second flight was anyways a Boeing 787-8 operated flight.
It turns out, just a couple of days before Air India was supposed to put this plan in motion, Air India has pulled the plug on the 747 plan, and is now selling both these flights with a Boeing 787-8 aircraft.
Reader Viraj Bagaria alerted us to the situation, and it seems that the 747 flights have been swapped out for good for now.
While I was of the thought that such a flight did not justify even the cost of the fuel, it seems either Air India now agrees that route economics for this flight doesn’t work. Or, they couldn’t fix up the 747s in time to get this plan in motion.
Either way, it is a sad loss for one of the final days to fly the 747-400 before Air India retires it for good.
Indecisive management taking irrational decisions only to revise them at the eleventh hour.
A few other routes which were announced never materialised like the delhi- bhopal- pune rotation and also the mumbai Colombo flight just keeps getting pushed ahead. Completely unreliable carrier.
hello,
air india is making loss for long time and government should privatise it .
thanks for sharing these update it is very useful for us.
keep posting.