Reasons not to fly Air India
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All on Mon Nov 24 12:26:58 2025
Air India has sold a Boeing 737-200 that the company no longer even knew it owned. The aircraft had been sitting idle for years in a remote parking lot at Kolkata (Calcutta) airport.
Only when airport authorities requested the aircraft be removed did Air India employees discover it was actually theirs, the Economic Times of India reports.
The 43-year-old freighter was grounded in 2012 and later retired. Over time, it disappeared from official records and institutional memory.
In a memo to employees, Air India CEO and MD Campbell Wilson announced Friday that the sale and transfer of the aircraft, registered as VT-EHH, had been completed last week. He called it an unusual sale, as the airline had recently discovered the aircraft was actually still part of its fleet. The aircraft, he explained, was once intended for India Post operations and had somehow disappeared from various records in the years before privatization. Air India was privatized three years ago.
Air India has 191 aircraft. This fleet is expected to expand to at least 570 in the coming years.
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