Tata Sons Chairman assures to make Air India most advanced global airline

Virtually addressing employees of Air India across the globe, Tata Sons Chairman N Chandrasekaran said that the group will make Air India financially fit, upgrade aircraft, bring in new fleet and make it the most technologically advanced airline globally.

He further said that it will require a huge transformation, probably the largest transformation and the change all of one would ever go through, for the airline to be the best again. The carrier will expand its outreach both domestically and internationally and it has the desire to connect India with every part of the globe.

On fleet modernisation, Chandrasekaran said, “... in terms of fleet, we know we have work to do and when I talked to the management team, the commercial director and the engineering leadership, I know we have work to do. We will address it with most urgency... we will move with utmost urgency and speed in the coming months. We will upgrade our fleet. We will bring modernity to our fleet. We will bring a new fleet, we will expand our outreach. We will not only increase the number of aircraft that we will have, wide body and narrow body, (but) we will fly to many destinations.”

The carrier will use modern cloud infrastructure and deploy the best of artificial intelligence, machine learning algorithms and mine data to be able to get intelligence on a real time basis and offer the most personalised experience any airline passenger can have.