Following Tata Group’s takeover, Air India is intensifying its engineering efforts by leveraging group airlines’ expertise for aircraft maintenance, aiming for better quality control. The airline plans to establish a maintenance base in Bengaluru by next year. Despite operational challenges with legacy planes, Air India is retrofitting over 100 aircraft and ordering 25,000 seats for fleet revamp. Tight market conditions pose hurdles for leasing wide-body aircraft, prompting the airline to focus on enhancing reliability and gradually replacing legacy planes with new ones, including from its recent Airbus and Boeing orders.