With plans of US expansion, AI to induct wide-bodied Boeing

The Air India board has approved a proposal seeking to induct the wide-bodied Boeing 787-9 aircraft in the fleet as it plans to expand operations to the US besides launching services to Canada.

Air India will lease seven B787-900 planes, the higher range of B787-8 aircraft, for which the Board has given its go-ahead, Chairman and Managing Director Ashwani Lohani said.

"The board's approval for leasing of seven B787-900 planes has come by," Lohani told

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