Air India Express to lease three Boeing planes from GE Capital Aviation
Air India Express (AIE) will lease three Boeing 737-800 planes from GE Capital Aviation Services (GECAS) of Singapore, which are expected to be delivered to the airline next year.
AIE has also floated fresh tenders recently for leasing of five more planes of similar type to maintain a fleet of 25 aircraft, a senior airline official told PTI here.
"We are leasing brand new three Boeing 737-800 planes from GECAS of Singapore. We have already signed a lease agreement with the firm and the aircraft will be delivered next year," the official said.
These planes are expected to be delivered to the AIE between March and May next year, the official said, adding the induction will raise the fleet size to 20.
The airline ad earlier a fleet of 25 Boeing 737-800 planes with 18 owned and seven leased ones. While it returned all the leased planes to the lessors on completion of the lease period over a period of time, AIE lost one plane during the Mangalore crash in 2010, reducing the number of aircraft in the fleet to 17.
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