The New Air India – A350 Inaugural Flight

The New Air India – A350 Inaugural Flight

It’s an exciting morning today I’m flying the new Air India April 50 guess who I met here the biggest Airline critic Josh but look we love Aviation we have differences but I’m also happy to see everybody because this is a joyful moment to see the near Air India it is it is a big day look at the crowd who’s turning out here it’s

Amazing hello this is the first Air India airplane the new pain scheme I think right yes we’re all here for the a350 there’s a lot of people watching us she just Landed And here she is stck at the gates everyone’s exciting it was a little hazy when it first taxi and then when she turned the lights on the airplane it became very nice and the new branding is on the a350 what do you guys think about

The new liery I think the new liy is good but the old one which the windows had the carvings on it was better yeah the fine Palace in the sky but new one is also good yeah I like it we’ve been waiting for this day since 18 years

Especially me cuz I’ve been working for the airline for Air India for 18 years and finally we get to see the Airbus 350 coming home it’s been a long wait yeah welcome Cong to airb 350 sir how was your flight from Bangalore amazing good love the Air India good good oh good to

See you guys welcome welcome hey how are you welcome now I’m flying behind you you guys are the first lot enjoy so I was bored the flight just made lot of Passenger coming off India 350 hi so uh my name is erl Pera I got released as air India’s first a350

Captain a couple of days back on today’s flight I’m in the role of the safety pilot for my other colleagues who are undergoing training with the airb pilots at the moment congratulations thank you so much congratulations taking the first flight from Bangalore to here pleasure

Having you on board nice to meet you new unifor this is new uniform very different wow it’s still a sar yeah red color SAR I’m bit surprised I just got on board and lots of Passenger here you guys came from Bangalore and now you guys joining me to chenai wow that’s dedication a lot look at this gentleman’s shirt Air India had the registration sunglasses window a special shirt you made this for this occasion

Yes I came from Bangalore now I’ll be flying to Chennai and then I’ll get off and in the evening I’ll vard premium economy and then I’ll be flying back to Bangalore to Hyderabad that’s many of us are doing many sectors trying out different cabins exactly I’m also going

To go to Chennai in business I’m going to go to economy from Chennai to Bangalore how was your flight came from Bangalore how was this morningly very early flight right that’s the and I skipped it uh the food was really good um first of all but the

Seating was excellent I like the new interior and everything good leg room yeah the leg room I got this seat here oh you got a first row yeah so I got like a really good enough of leg room if they keep the same maintenance like this

I’m sure Air India will go to the top the AR Arabian countries will have a tough time ahead he just told me a tip why a lots of people are on board from Bangalore staying on board bombed chenai because the fair from Bangalore via Bombay to chenai is cheaper than

Just Bangalore Bombay direct so a lots of people get to experience two sector for a lower price if you want to fly your India maybe this is a good tip for you hello good morning good morning morning how are you some orange juice and uh coconut

Water or maybe a glass of water I have orange juice please orange juice thank you can I offer you full time thank you thank You so I’m trying out the aut the cabin feature the suweet in business class right while we waiting for departure this airplane was supposed to deliver to aosl Russian airline Air India picked them up very quickly six of them will arrive by April 24th and um this is where why they have

This little bit hybrid of aof interior now customized for Air India W everyone is mingling that working celebrating exciting the board new aircraft but we are 35 minute late now hopefully soon we will get going to Chennai You So this is the B we have to lock the uh private door in case trying to unlock it so you just need to press it and pull it up and then you can move it okay now you’re unlocking for everybody then this needs to be secured for every take off

And Landing so that was a really beautiful take off uh we climb out of the sea and then do a turn back heading uh towards chai now cruising a flight level 350 flight time very short just 1 hour 15 minutes they are now going to come and serve

Breakfast thank you and this is a m Masala Chuli with a vegetarian cutlet and stuffed Pata along with that and a cross of fruits and some strawberry Ms and that thank you very much enjoy your break this is for premium economy and we are serving a vegetarian the

Nonvegetarian this is scrambled egg with chicken saus in the you have a different meal premium economy and economy yes it’s a different meal for sure sector like this this is vegetarian yes we have two choices in vegetarian two choices today yes yeah very busy flight so here I come down to premium

Economy I found a reviewer who’s reviewing his flight so the premium economy uh meals quite good but one thing I find missing over here is the desert part okay so even in economy flights of Air India you usually get some sort of like U chocolate cake but I see that it’s

Missing here so that thing should have been there uh but we have got fruit platter we have got yogurt and we have got some Alo Paras and then choles and when it comes down to Cutlery so I see that there’s no engraving on the Cy previously used to see some Air India

Engravings the logos yeah the logos displayed but as I mentioned that there in the representative they say that they want to be a conscious choice and they don’t want to erex go the logos Everywhere there was a guy earlier he came and asked me how’s to review ver India and I told him no I don’t I don’t review anything I’m just sharing my experiences here um because everybody knows me and also it’s very difficult one video One flight to summarize a

Whole Airline there are 300 passengers here there should be 300 voices 300 experiences right so I’m just guy who loves Aviation who enjoy doing all this and uh sharing this on my uh content on my channel that’s all it is you look at this teapot here all the Air India logos

Like that’s history that’s Legacy yeah but I love it it’s just symbolic right yeah my God when he brought the teapots down I almost had a meltdown seeing the old Air inia logo the silver where the teapots nostalgic but now we’re on the new Air India this is a New Journey the

New beginning I think all the passengers here are hoping AR India can live back and regain his glory in the past and uh time will tell this is just the beginning I think Aviation brought us together again today great to see you and now I want to ask you what’s your

Review what’s your critic review on Air India is admit your expectation it’s beautiful it’s a great product delivery inside and out there’s not much to to fault here so I um should probably come back on a different flight but today is a celebration for Aviation and I’m glad

That everybody is here a lot of similar faces and uh it’s just it’s just it’s just a great day to celebrate what we love so Much great landing I’m in chenai tamun Nadu um that’s not the end of it because I have one more sector from chenai to Bangalore I’m going to go try out the economy class so stay tuned the person sitting in front of me is suji he has a YouTube channel over 2 million

Subscriber tech review travel review I’ve been waiting for this flight since a long time like I used to I love to travel with hair India I’m a huge fan of Hair India so we have a passenger here asking the crew to sign the boarding pass to remember how nice that’s such a

Nice momentto yeah look at that can you show us oh nice nice that was such a great FR great so much playing with us you look at some of the enthusiasts prepare to come with the a350 picture for the captain to sign and I hope you enjoyed the first sector into uh chinai

Uh today’s flight we started out our operations on our 350 service and uh it’s a line route training flight for most of my colleagues over there and uh this morning we were four in the cockpit we have a training captain from Airbus and we have two pilots who are under

Training I am the fourth who is a safety pilot so on the second leg here to chenai we flew at 35,000 ft roughly about 940 km hour ground speed little bit of tailwind and uh just waiting now for the quick turnar around get everybody to Bangalore and carry on with

The day so you are actually the purs there you’re in that purple uniform yes that’s right yeah and it’s also quite slick for the men as well I do like it I think it’s more than so this plazo is very comfortable brers this is SAR dress

It’s a prech s at the beginning I prob looked the same but actually the difference trousers and dress SAR dress yeah it looks complicated but it’s very easy to wear it it’s a pre Stitch so it’s comfortable for long flights yeah one great thing we found out is it’s good at picture as

Well this beautiful bright colors which one you likeing bright what you liking this more or this one you know cuz I’m not a lady I haven’t tried I haven’t tried I can’t tell you which one I like more but I like the top the top is all

The same the top is bright colors great for photographs so now I’m coming down my next seats is this one here 11k now shifting down from business class to economy there’s a lots of friends here not quite sure you think it’s going to be a food flight I don’t think so I

Think the E350 is going to have a lot of Attraction there’s a lot of AFI coming on board a lot of people want to experience the 350 right you can do so domestic sector Bombay Bangalore chenai pbar and Delhi five cities flying through every day this is for

You this is the new design the sticker of the new uniform yes look wow the first crew of Air India 350 congratulations on your new beginning bye thank you good bye thank you so much for your help thank you thank you you’re requested to pay attention to the cruise safety

Instruction this is a much shorter sector I think this is just going to be 40 minutes to Bangalore from chai Here That you actually come to get meeting everybody I come down to see you guys busy busy I can’t believe 45 minutes sector you’re serving a meal all right I’ll leave you guys to work cuz I don’t think you have time to film me no problem no problem it’s a hard day three

Sectors look at this food is here it’s new it got stuck thank you thank you know what you you must ride this biryani very spicy and it’s amazing very spicy like all fire coming out my tongue thank you thank you just have this lovely old lady from chenai on my

Neighbor and I just told her this is the first flight of the 350 from chenai she loves it Pretty remarkable flight on a 40 minutes day servant meal on board and also all the if is working on this flight of course a brand new aircraft I knew Air India used to have issues with some of the older aircraft the I doesn’t work and I hope they can continue to rectify and

Improve Here we are after almost 7 hours from Bombay to chenai and Bangalore here we are I really like the announcement at the end they say at Air India they never say goodbye they see you again right and with all the Goodwills and Humanities I really hope Air India can make it this Time

I flew on Air India’s new flagship, the A350-900 inaugural flight. This is the first plane that wears the new Air India livery. It is the first of 470 planes Air India has on order which is worth $70 billion. Can Air India regain its former glory?

My Air India A350 flight started from Mumbai to Chennai. The Business Class cabin has 28 fully enclosed private suites. Followed by Premium Economy cabin which has 24 seats and Economy with 264 seats. The crew on this flight wore new Air India uniforms with bright colors.

The humanities on these inaugural flights shine! The flight was in celebration mode with many aviation enthusiasts onboard, all wishing Air India well. The new A350 is leaps and bounds ahead, a complete change from the old Air India.

Upon landing in Chennai, I remained onboard for the next sector to Bengaluru. The captain has shared that the initial domestic flights were for training purposes before the A350 being inducted for long-haul international flights. The next sector was just 40 minutes but Air India served a meal onboard, it was hot vegetarian biryani. 

Air India expects to receive 5 more A350-900s by April 2024. The airline has ordered a total of 20 A350-1000s and 20 A350-900s. Until the end of Feb, the A350 is deployed on domestic flights flying to the cities of Bangalore, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Delhi.

Cover Photo by Utkarsh Thakkar