NEW DELHI: From finding components for seats that are no longer being manufactured to making “Christmas Tree” Air India aircraft long cannibalised for spares fly again, the Tata Group has embarked on unarguably the most challenging aviation turnaround of contemporary times.
AI MD & CEO Campbell Wilson, an aviation veteran from Singapore Airlines, on Tuesday gave a ringside view of how brick-by-brick the Maharaja’s kingdom is being rebuilt in a three-phase process — taxiing, take off and climb — that will see the airline fleet triple from current about 120 over next five years and eventually move to all new planes.
