The deal with Air India is being announced by Tata Group-owned Air India, whose ticket size has been pegged at around $110 billion, according to Mark Martin, founder and CEO of Martin Consulting.
Martin said to Business Today TV that the order in terms of ticket size is roughly $110 billion, but the bigger challenge is for Tatas to upgrade their airline to handle such a complex fleet. The A 350 is a generation five plus aircraft and to bring in such advanced technology into India would need an entire overhaul of Air India's functioning, which includes skills, processes, technology, IT, and more.
Innovation, software systems, data management. Tata will be strong and aligned to handle the new fleet, bringing in every element of technology. The provisional deals include 220 aircraft from Boeing and 250 from Airbus, surpassing previous records for a single airline as Air India competes with IndiGo to serve what will soon be the world's largest population.
Airbus orders includes 210 A 320 neo narrowbody planes and 40 A 350 widebody aircraft, which Air India will use to fly ultra-long routes, said Tata Chairman N Chandrasekaran. Boeing will supply MAX, 20 of its 787 Dreamliners and 10 mini-jumbo 777 X.
Martin said that India's fleet size is still behind China despite the mega deals by Air India.
The total number of aircraft in India is between 800 and 900. adding aircraft on wet leaves isn't count as our own fleet because they don't belong to our own.
I'm guessing that India's effective number of vectors has to be between 3,500 to 5,000 aircraft, given the population of 1.4 billion and the 50 million global diaspora. China has a fleet size of 4,500 aircraft. India is lagging behind, said Martin.