karatecatman wrote:

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Airbus had predicted this a long time ago and one of the points in their trying to push AI into buying the Airbus A340 was "in the possibility/scenario of Air India merging with Indian Airlines, a common fleet will help reduce costs. ..."  

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The advantage of fleet commonality has been computed to $2000 per sector, in $ terms, this was done by continental as part of their fleet renewal programme. However this advantage is insignificant while taking into consideration SFC for a A343/5/6 against a B772/3/LR, hence you see multi fleet with most airlines around the world today.

Undoubtedly a good mix for AI the B787 & B777, considering its routes.

The Q ''challayega kaun'', some wizz kid IAS officer along with a hotch potch of employees, recruited over the years because of their allegiance to various Ministers.