DGCA Approves Electronic Technical Logbooks for Air India’s 787s and OKs Parallel Rollout on 777s
The clearance lets Air India replace paper maintenance records with real-time digital logs to speed defect reporting, enable predictive maintenance analytics, cut paper use
Overview
- Air India, which received formal DGCA approval on Monday, July 13, may now use Electronic Technical Logbooks as the primary maintenance record for its Boeing 787 widebody fleet.
- The regulator also authorised the airline to introduce the ETL system in parallel across its Boeing 777 fleet as Air India moves from approval into operational rollout.
- Electronic Technical Logbooks replace paper logbooks with a secure digital platform that lets maintenance engineers, flight crews and operations share defect reports and status in real time to speed rectification and improve aircraft dispatch reliability.
- Air India says the ETL platform strengthens data integrity and traceability and provides analytics to support predictive maintenance and faster engineering decisions, a change driven by coordinated work with OEMs, digital teams and the DGCA.
- The switch to ETLs is expected to reduce paper use and support sustainability goals while creating practical implementation tasks such as system integration, staff training, cybersecurity safeguards and ongoing regulator oversight.