Air India will see most of the air traffic growth coming from domestic and short-haul international operations in 2025 as more narrow-body planes are joining the fleet and legacy wide-body aircraft will be going for retrofit next year, the airline's chief Campbell Wilson said on Thursday.
The Tata Group-owned airline, which has embarked on a five-year transformation journey, expects to have a fleet of 400 planes by 2027.
Currently, the total fleet strength of Air India Group, including Air India Express, is around 300 aircraft.
During a select media briefing, Wilson, who has been at the helm of Air India for more than two years, said the airline group has a domestic market share of around 29 per cent and 55 per cent on the metro to metro routes.
On top 120 domestic routes, the market share is about 40 per cent, he said.
According to him, the retrofit of legacy wide-body aircraft will start in early 2025.
"We had hoped to start retrofit of 787s and 777s by now. Unfortunately, the