Air India

(Formerly Tata Airlines)

A Presentation
By
Jaideep Bakre
Air India’s Mascot
MAHARAJA
 Establishment
• Tata Airlines
Founder J.R.D Tata
15 October 1932
3 Seater De Havilland Puss Moth
First Pilot - Nevill Vintcent
First Flight
 Karachi Ahmedabad Mumbai
 National Flag Carrier
• Birth of Air India
 29 July 1946
 1948 49%-Govt. of India
 Extra 2% Flag Carrier Status – ‘Air India International’
 First International Flight
 8 June 1948
 Lockheed Constellation L-749A ‘Malabar Princess’
 Bombay Cairo Geneva London.
• Air Corporations Act 1953, 1st August
 Majority stake of Govt. of India
 Domestic Services – Indian Airlines
 International Services – Air India International Limited
 Earlier Liveries

Indian Airlines Air India

 New Air India Livery
• Unveiled in May 2007
• The Flying Swan Air India’s
logo ‘The Centaur’.
• Konark Chakra - Indian
Airlines logo.
 Air India Major Hubs
• Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
(Primary Hub)
• Indira Gandhi International Airport
(Secondary Hub)
• Frankfurt Airport (International Hub)
 Affiliated Carriers
• Indian Airlines has a fleet of 74 aircraft (18 Airbus
A319-100s, 43 Airbus A320-200s and 13 Airbus
A321-200s) with seventeen additional aircraft on
order.
• Air India Express has a fleet of 23 Boeing 737-
800s aircraft with two additional aircraft on order.
• Air India Regional has a fleet of 11 aircraft (7 ATR
42-320s and 4 Bombardier CRJ-700ERs).
• Air India Cargo has a fleet of 10 aircraft (4 Airbus
A310-300(F)s and 6 Boeing 737-200/Adv(F)s).
 Women Initiative
• 8 March 2004, International Women's Day
• "All Women Flight" from Mumbai to
Singapore.
• Captain Rashmi Miranda (Air-India's first
female Commander) and Captain Kshmata
Bajpai
• Female Flight Dispatcher - Vasanti Kolnad.
• Safety Audit on board - Harpreet D Singh.
 Awards and Recognitions
• Best International West Bound Airline out of India for
three successive years by Galileo Express TravelWorld
Award.
• Best Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative. by Galileo
Express TravelWorld Award.
• World's First All-Jet Airline- June 1962
• World's Largest Operator of Airbus A310-300.
• Entered The Guinness Book of World Records for the
largest evacuation by a civil airliner.
 111,000 people (Indian expatriates in Kuwait and Iraq)
 Amman to Mumbai – a distance of 4,117 km
 488 flights with IA
 13 August to 11 October, 1990 – lasting 59 days.