Abbas Ali wrote:
Indian Airlines had selected four wheel main landing gear for Airbus A320 aircraft ordered by the airline in 1980s to operate aircraft to/from smaller airports in India with weaker runway strength.
Abbas
Abbas wouldn't referring 1980s would mean in early 80s Vs A320 made first flight in 87 or 88 which is towards late 80s. Another thing is, most of the time it takes 5 years form starting of planning/designing stage to produce first complete aircraft. So if Indian Airlines ordered those A320s, they must have after 1983 once aircraft was in planning/designing stages.
Thanks guys for explaining the reason why AI ordered A320s with 4 wheel bogies on mains, makes perfect sense now due to weight distribution on less strengthen runways and taxi ways.