How Has Air India Configured Its Airbus A350s?

Simple Flying recently reported that Air India had placed an order for ten Airbus A350s. The order was made alongside the order of a sizable number of Airbus A320s too. The order amounted to close to $6 billion in total.

It was reported in mid-September that Air India would be spending around $400 million to retrofit sixty-seven aircraft, forty of which were widebodies. The cabin design seamlessly integrates the airline's identity, and there are no visual indications of its previous ownership. According to the data from planespotters.

net , out of the 130 aircraft operated by Air India, six are Airbus A350 . All six of these are of the Airbus A350-900 type. The A350s are some of the youngest aircraft in Air India's fleet, as even the oldest aircraft of this type operated by the Indian flag carrier (registered VT-JRA) is merely 1.

2 years old. The youngest is registered VT-JRI and was delivered in May earlier this year. Here's a list of the registrations of the remaining A350s operated by Air India: VT-JRB VT-JRE VT-JRF VT-JRH But how does this carrier configure its A350s? Let's find out.

Business Class in Air India's Airbus A350s Air India offers twenty-eight seats in the business class of A350s. The seats are configured 1-2-1, and when Simple Flying journalists were asked to visit the A350s, one of the reporters claimed that this seating, as opposed to the 2-2-2 configuration of the years gone by, was "more intimate". All of these Collins Aerospace Horizon seats have direct ac.