Posted on March 25, 2010.
Indian Airlines and Air India's international and domestic airlines India began with the enactment of the Air Corporations Act, 1953. It was renamed in India on December 7, 2005, its former name Indian airlines. Indian Airlines started its operations from 1 August 1953 with a fleet of 99 aircraft and has been the result of the merger of seven former independent airlines namely Deccan Airways, Airways-India, British Airways, Bharat, the Himalayan Aviation, Kalinga Air Lines, Indian National Airways and Air Services of India. The year 1964 saw the move in the Indian Airlines jet era with the introduction of the Caravelle in his fleet followed by Boeing 737-200s in the early 70s. With its subsidiary Alliance Air, it flies a fleet of 70 aircraft, including Airbus A300, Airbus A320, Airbus A319, Boeing 737, Dornier Do-228, ATR-4, the Airbus A319, A320 and A321. Alongwith Indian cities, it flies to many foreign destinations including Kuwait, Singapore, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar outside Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives
free rein in Indian Airlines in the Indian skies ended with the entry of private operators after the liberalization of the Indian economy in the early 1990s when many private airlines like Jet Airways, Air Sahara, East-West ModiLuft Airlines and entered the fray. The entry of low cost airlines like Air Deccan , Kingfisher Airlines and SpiceJet has revolutionized the Indian aviation scenario.
India has been a pioneer in the aviation scene in India. It was the first airline in India to introduce A300 wide-body aircraft on domestic, the A320 fly-by-wire, walk in flights and easy fares. It flies to 76 destinations - 58 in India and 18 abroad. It employed a total force of about 19,300 employees with Air Alliance and more than 7.5 million passengers per year, with Alliance Air