State-run carrier AI (AI) is in a fix ahead of its plan to restructure its international operations by the yearend. Struggling with massive losses, the carrier is looking to cancel or defer orders of three long-haul Boeing aircraft 777-ER (Extended Range) but the US plane maker Boeing insists it be replaced with narrow-bodied Boeing 737-800, generally used for domestic operations.
Also, the difference over pricing of Boeing 777-3-ER remains an issue as AI wants Boeing to offset these planes at a total of Rs 2,000 crore - the price that prevailed when the orders were placed in 2005.
"We are still in talks with the airline. We are yet to sign a new contract in this regard," Dinesh A. Keskar, president, Boeing India, told Mail Today. Keskar hoped that the deal would be struck soon. The cash-strapped carrier had ordered......
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