With new upholstery and curtains, Air India to get facelift

National carrier Air India has decided to give a new look to its aircrafts. The interiors will be refurbished with new upholstery and curtains, said highly placed sources from the airline. The sources also added that the last refurbishing had been done ten years ago and currently they are in bad condition.

On Saturday, in a meeting of Air India officials, which took place in Santa Cruz, CMD Ashwini Lohani, also ordered to change the colour of the curtains and seat covers of all the flights from its current brick red, informed the official sources.

The airline plans to mix and match yellow and maroon colours and make a unique colour scheme for the upholstery. The revamping work will be done in Mumbai. According to the sources, when the aircrafts comes to Mumbai airport for a long halt, the necessary changes will be worked on.

Airline officials believe that the whole process will cost an estimated Rs 10,000 per fleet. In the same meeting, CMD Lohani vowed a cleaner aircraft and ordered a regular wash of the flooring carpet, in every four months, which was irregular earlier.

While the officials are also saying that for the refurbishing work, tender will be declared by the airline and then the order will be placed.

However, a few other officials from the airline have a completely different opinion. According to them, the seat covers are already in a bad shape and it is necessary to change them, as they are almost ten years old.

But they reveal that three years ago, carpets were ordered through a tender and airline had paid an estimated Rs 60 crore. But the products were never delivered.

So this time, the officials want to throw some caution in, while placing the order. “The top officials need to be careful this time, said an official,” further pointing out that the gates, joints and various other equipment of the several aircrafts of the airline are also in a terrible conditions and they also need to be changed.