Air India Accrues $110K in Fees on Forgotten Boeing 737-200

Air India has accumulated more than INR10 million (approximately USD111,000) in fees and parking charges linked to a long-forgotten Boeing 737-200 freighter that had been stored in Kolkata since 2012. The aircraft, registered as VT-EHH, was recently rediscovered during a post-privatisation review of the airline’s assets.

The 43.3-year-old jet was no longer airworthy and has since been auctioned and removed by road transport, with its Pratt & Whitney JT8D engines still installed. The aircraft will now be used for maintenance training purposes.

According to Air India chief executive Campbell Wilson, the Boeing 737-200 had effectively disappeared from the airline’s internal records and ledgers prior to privatisation. In an internal memo to staff, Wilson said, “we didn’t even know we owned it,” highlighting legacy asset-tracking gaps inherited by the airline before its takeover by the Tata Group.

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