Air India's plans to wet-lease three 400-seat aircraft to replace Boeing 747-200s appear to have run up against an unexpected problem of unavailability. Instead, the airline has short-listed six companies offering to meet a requirement for 250- to 300-seaters with Airbus A310-300s and McDonnell Douglas MD-11s. The wet-lease option has been chosen to speed up Air India's fleet modernisation.
Source: Flight International