Overview
- Air India’s CEO Campbell Wilson acknowledged the oversight after Kolkata airport requested removal of the aircraft.
- The carrier agreed to pay close to Rs10 million in parking charges accumulated over 13 years.
- The 737-200 (VT-EHH) was removed on 14 November and transported by road to Bengaluru for ground engineering training use.
- Air India attributed the omission to successive restructurings, including the 2007 merger lineage and the 2022 privatisation, which left the plane off key transfer documents and led to an initial invoice dispute.
- Kolkata airport said VT-EHH was the 14th defunct aircraft cleared in five years, and the freed space is slated for a planned hangar.