India, March 18 -- Tata Group-owned Air India has welcomed its first retrofitted narrow-body aircraft, VT-EXN (A320neo aircraft), back into operations - marking an important milestone in the airline's transformation journey.

VT-EXN is the first of the 27 narrow body aircraft inherited at the time of takeover that was elected for a complete retrofit to the new Air India standard, with new seats, carpets, curtain, cabin ambience, a three-class cabin configuration, along with a fresh coat of paint, new livery - all in the new Air India branding.

VT-EXN was sent for retrofit last year. Its retrofit is part of the USD400 million retrofit programme announced by the Tata group to upgrade the airline's entire fleet of legacy narrow body and wid...