{"id":321518,"date":"2025-11-23T11:08:25","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/forgotten-boeing-737-air-india-sells-737-200\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:08:25","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T01:08:25","slug":"forgotten-boeing-737-air-india-sells-43-year-old-737-200-it-didnt-realize-it-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=321518","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Boeing 737: Air India Sells 43-Year-Old 737-200 It Didn&#8217;t Realize It Owned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a remote corner of Kolkata airport, a <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254988\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><span>Boeing 737<\/span><\/span> belonging to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254834\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/air-india\/\"  >Air India<\/a><\/span> sat decaying. The Star Alliance carrier, which was privatised three years ago with the <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-india-sale-complete\/\" >sale to Tata Sons<\/a> and Singapore Airlines, this week took steps to sell this airplane, which has been grounded for over a decade. According to multiple media outlets, the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739412\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/737-200\/\"  >Boeing 737-200<\/a><\/span> cargo-configured aircraft was &#8216;forgotten&#8217; about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A ghost from the past: Air India unearths a long-lost plane in their fleet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[548,396,398,3353,553,16569],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-737-200","category-india","category-manufacturers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":321519,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321518\/revisions\/321519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}