Air India (AI) plans to raise its capacity on domestic routes by using Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes. Currently, it uses the narrow body Airbus A320 on home routes.
Currently, it has 16 Boeing 787s and flies these to Europe, Japan, Singapore and Dubai. It also uses them on two domestic routes, Delhi-Kolkata and Delhi-Bangalore. It has 27 Boeing 787s on order and is expecting three additional planes till March 2015. It is expected to use these to ply on other metro routes.