Air India signs BIG deal of 470 aircraft with Airbus, Boeing; first plane delivery by end of 2023
Business | February 14, 2023 23:29 ISTAir India on Tuesday announced to acquire 250 and 220 aircrafts from Airbus and Boeing respectively.
Air India on Tuesday announced to acquire 250 and 220 aircrafts from Airbus and Boeing respectively.
PM Modi expressed satisfaction at the deepening of the India-US Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership and noted this has resulted in robust growth in all domains.
Air India, which announced its decision to acquire 250 aircrafts from Airbus earlier in the day, will also purchase 220 aircrafts from Boeing, AFP reported.
During a virtual event being attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and French President Emmanuel Macron, among others, Natarajan Chandrasekaran, Chairman of Tata Sons said a letter of intent has been signed with Airbus for the acquisition of the aircraft.
Air India has inked contracts with Airbus SE and Boeing Co. to buy 500 new aircraft, valued at more than $100 billion.
Airbus is currently developing a hydrogen-powered fuel cell engine for its ambitious zero-emission aircraft that will enter service by 2035.
A fresh war of words has broken out between the ruling Eknath Shinde dispensation and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)-led opposition over the Rs 22,000 crore project to manufacture C-295 military transport aircraft moving from Maharashtra to Vadodara in Gujarat.
Fadnavis' revelation came amid a tussle between the ruling Eknath Shinde dispensation and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray)-led opposition over the Rs 22,000 crore project to manufacture C-295 military transport aircraft moving from Maharashtra to Vadodara in Gujarat.
PM Modi in Gujarat: The Tata-Airbus combine had said that C295 manufacturing is the first Make in India aerospace programme in the private sector involving the full development of a complete industrial ecosystem.
Indian Air Force aircraft: According to Defence Officials, Indian multinational conglomerate Tata will collaborate with Airbus to manufacture as many as 40 C-295 aircraft.
A350XWB aircraft can travel above 8,000 nautical miles, with a flying time of approximately 18 hours in one flight.
India on Friday inked a nearly Rs 20,000 crore contract with Airbus Defence and Space to procure 56 C-295 transport aircraft.
Airbus has announced its plans to develop the world’s first zero-emission commercial aircraft by 2035. The company is currently working on three concept designs for hydrogen-powered aircraft equipped with zero-emission technology, which can reduce aircraft’s emissions by up to 50%.
Airbus experts continued to examine and collect evidence about the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) plane crash on May 22 at a residential area in the port city that killed 97 people, it was reported on Thursday.
The European aerospace giant Airbus has temporarily closed its plant in northern China that assembles A320 passenger jets, another business casualty of the disruptions caused by China’s battle against Coronavirus.
Last Friday, a city-bound Air India flight from Bhubaneswar, carrying 189 persons on board, had to make an emergency landing at Chhattisgarh's Raipur airport due to tail fire in one of the engines of the aircraft.
Vistara has decided to place USD 2.4 billion worth of orders for 26 CFM-manufactured Leap-1A engines to power its 13 new Airbus A320 Neos, which also includes a maintenance contract.
Interestingly, the distance between Dubai and Muscat is the only 340km, which is shorter than the 500km long wiring on an Airbus A380, Emirates said on its Twitter account.
The startups were part of the five startups chosen a year back from the second season of the Airbus Bizlab technology acceleration programme, which attracted 137 applications from nine countries, a release issued by the European firm said.
Airbus chief salesman John Leahy said that "if we can't work out a deal with Emirates, there is no choice but to shut down the program."
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