Ever since India’s Tata Group acquired the former, state-run Air India, in January of this year, the company is overhauling its fleet.
Air India is considering adding 150 737 Max jets and about 50 Airbus wide-bodies to its fleet. “With uncertainty around China, the Indian market is increasingly important to us,” John Bruns, Boeing vice president of commercial sales and marketing in India and Southeast Asia, said in an interview with Bloomberg News on Friday.
Boeing has offered 737 Max jets (once slated for China) to Air India Ltd. It is on track to employ 5,000 staff in India, which would be its biggest overseas workforce, exceeding Australia’s 4,300, Bruns said.
