Planes, grounded for eternity, resurrect roads as restaurants and offices

Kolkata: If you’re wondering why so many aircraft are now using 18-wheel trailers to navigate the city, here’s the explanation: Five abandoned aircraft that were purchased from the Kolkata airport by a Delhi-based company are being transported throughout the nation and put to new uses as restaurants, offices, movie set props, landmark installations, amusement park attractions, or reassembled flight attendant training academies.

After almost two decades of service, Air India retired three aircraft, of which three have already been moved and the other two are scheduled to arrive shortly.
Planes, grounded for eternity, resurrect roads as restaurants and offices.
The first plane was transported 2,000 kilometres away to Amritsar by Moni Ji Enterprises, the business that purchased the aircraft. It ran into trouble early on in the trip when it became lodged underneath a flypast. The PM was scheduled to utilise this route on his visit to the city two days later; therefore, the SPG arranged for local police to clear the road as soon as possible. Police and highway officials created a SOP for the safe transportation of big freight after learning from this. After that, the second and third jets, destined for Delhi, avoided obstacles including flyovers, bridges, and height barriers.
The company focuses on purchasing and selling abandoned aeroplanes and railway coaches and repurposing them for customers, according to Jaswinder Singh, the director of the business. They have bought 22 scrapped aeroplanes from Kolkata, Coimbatore, Chennai, and other locations during the last eight years, he added.