New Delhi: Air India has received regulatory approval to replace paper-based aircraft maintenance records with Electronic Technical Logbooks (ETL) across its Boeing 787 fleet, with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) also authorising parallel implementation on the airline’s Boeing 777 aircraft.
The move makes Tata Group-owned airlines among the first carriers to adopt fleet-wide electronic technical logbooks for its entire Boeing 787 fleet.
Electronic Technical Logbooks digitises aircraft maintenance records, allowing engineers and operational teams to access and update technical information in real time.
The airline expects improved coordination between engineering and flight operations, faster defect reporting and rectification, strengthened regulatory compliance and enhanced aircraft dispatch reliability.
“Implementation of ETL across our widebody Boeing fleet… is improving operational efficiency, strengthening maintenance governance, enhancing regulatory compliance and enabling faster decision-making across our engineering and operations teams,” Jeremy Yew Jin Kit, Air India’s Senior Vice President for Engineering and Maintenance, said.