{"id":390714,"date":"2026-03-21T15:53:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/air-india-wrong-boeing-777-canada-flight-9-hour-u-turn\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T05:53:17","slug":"wrong-boeing-777-variant-forces-canada-bound-air-india-flight-into-9-hour-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=390714","title":{"rendered":"Wrong Boeing 777 Variant Forces Canada-Bound Air India Flight Into 9-Hour U-Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A plane load of <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> passengers was turned around mid-flight between <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"256409\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/delhi\/\"  >Delhi<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"128874\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/vancouver\/\"  >Vancouver<\/a><\/span> on Thursday, after the wrong aircraft was deployed for the 15-hour trip to <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"182703\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/canada\/\"  >Canada<\/a><\/span>. The issue: Air India has clearance to operate the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"739393\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/777-300er\/\"  >Boeing 777-300ER<\/a><\/span> variant on this route. For this trip on Thursday, March 19, the <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255964\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/star-alliance\/\"  >Star Alliance<\/a><\/span> carrier had opted to fly the 777-200LR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A costly mistake for Air India as the wrong Boeing 777 variant was deployed on a Canada-bound flight, resulting in a 9-hour U-turn.<\/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":[548,396,398,737,549,553,5160,5238],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india","category-aircraft","category-boeing","category-boeing-777","category-delhi-indira-gandhi-international-airport","category-india","category-return-to-origin","category-vancouver-international-airport"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390714","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=390714"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390831,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390714\/revisions\/390831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}