Introduction

• It is the national flag carrier of India with a

worldwide network of passengers and
cargo service.
• Its one of the two state owned airlines in
the country ,other being, Indian Airlines.
• Main bases- Chhatrapati Shivaji
International Airport, Mumbai and
IndiraGandhi International Airport, New
Delhi.
• It connects 95 destinations around the
world including 12 gateways in India with
Air India Express, its fully owned
History of Air India
• Beginning as Tata Airlines in 1932 by
J.R.D. Tata.
• On October 15,1932 J.R.D. Tata himself
flew a single engined De Havilland Puss
Moth Registered VT.
• Tata Airlines became Public Limited co. on
29July,1946 under the name Air India.
• 49% of the airline was acquired by the
Government of India in 1948.
• It was granted status to operate
international services from India under the
name Air India International.
History contd…..
• Entered the jet age in 1960 when its first
Boeing 707, named Nandadevi and
registered VT-DJJ, was delivered.
• On June 11, 1962 Air India became the
world's first all-jet airline.
• In 1994 the airline was registered as Air
India Ltd.
• It was the only airline that nationalized the
air transportation industry
History contd…
• AI started it's low cost subsidiary named
Air India Express in May 2004.
• In March 2004, Air India started non-stop
flights from Ahmedabad's Sardar
Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport to
London, Heathrow, making it the third
station from India (after Mumbai and
Delhi).

• Air India lost the chance to become a big

international airline, as it did not expand
it's fleet due to delays by Govt. of India for
• A member of IATA, Air India carries
all types of cargo including
dangerous goods (hazardous
materials) and live animals, provided
such shipments are tendered
according to IATA Dangerous Goods
Regulations and IATA Live Animals
Regulations.
• At the warehouse in Mumbai, Air
India has developed a system of
inventory management for cargo
handling of import/export functions.
The new logo of Air India
• The logo of the
new airline is a
Flying Swan with
the Konark Chakra
placed inside it.
The Flying Swan
has been morphed
from Air India’s
characteristic logo,
‘The ‘Konark
Chakra’ is
reminiscent of
Air India offers three classes
of service
• First Class, Executive
Class and Economy
Class. Flat bed seats
are offered for first
class passengers. The
airline also offers
luxury lounges in its
ground terminals for
its First and Executive
class travelers in
select destinations
within India.
• Air-India has Duty free
 Trivia

The Indian Prime Minister's flight operated

by Air India is called AI 001.
Awards and recognition
• The Airline entered • The airline
the Guinness Book received The
Mercury Award for
of World Records the years 1994 and
for the largest 2003, from the
evacuation by a International Flight
civil airliner, Catering
Association, for
involving finest in-flight
evacuation of over catering services.
111,000 people
from Amman to
Mumbai.
 President of India's
brush with near death
– One of President's VVIP squadron
helicopters landed on runway 27 of the
Mumbai airport, even as IC-866, the
Mumbai Delhi flight of Air India was on
the runway cruising at 120-130 knots
(222 to 240 km/hr) for takeoff.  
– An alert ATC which saw that the
helicopter landed on the runway,
immediately issued abort takeoff orders
for the Air India flight.  Had the decision
been delayed by 3 seconds or the pilot
of the flight had responded with a three
Merger of Air India and
Indian airlines
• Merger  was approved in March of the year
2008 by the government of India, and a
new company called the National
Aviation Company of India Limited
(NACIL) was formed.
• The Certificate to Commence Business was
obtained in May of 2007.
• The merger is expected to cost Rs 2
billion.
• The Government has approved the
appointment of Shri V Thulasidas and Dr V
Trivedi as Chairman & Managing Director
and Joint Managing Director, respectively,
of the merged entity, with effect from the
Benefits of merger for Air
India
• Its market share will be increase to 30 %.
• The merger will provide an opportunity to
fully leverage strong assets, capabilities,
infrastructure and skilled and experienced
manpower available with both the
companies to the optimum potential.
• Help to achieve synergies and reduce
cost.
• A combined fleet size of over 112 aircraft,
comparable to the best airlines in the
Asian region, and will rank among the top
30 airlines in the world.
• It will strengthen the Public Sector Airlines
because merger would result in increase
net benefit of Rs.600 crores ,which is 4%
After merger effects

• Fewer people to fly AI acc. to DGCA

data
• Prior to merger load factor of Air
India (domestic) was 61.2% but after
merger it ranges between 61.3 to
58.3%.
• Indian Airlines also have lowest load
factor in the year of merger despite
brand new planes in its fleet.
How Air India is going to
manage its profit in 2009?
• By targeting efficiency and improved
productivity.
• Controlling internal costs by revising
wages.
• Catering area to be closely monitored as
the order of olive oil on board will be
removed which will save million of dollars.
• Wastages should be tackled.
• Biggest savings through network
integration, improvement in schedules,
passenger loyalty programme.
• They have managed to get good savings
by two means –one is aircraft insurance
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