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Air India is the flag carrier of India, and was founded by JRD Tata of Tata Sons. It is based in New Delhi, and currently operates hubs in Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru, with various focus cities across India. [1] Air India commenced operations on 29 July 1946, operating under the Government of India.
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Air India became the first Asian airline to operate freighters when Air India Cargo was set up in 1954 and started its freighter operations with a Douglas DC-3 aircraft. [16] Air India Cargo ended freighter aircraft operations in early 2012. [124] Alliance Air was a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian Airlines established on 1 April 1996.
As of January 2025, Air India operates a fleet of both narrow-body and wide-body aircraft with a fleet consisting of Airbus A319, A320, A320neo, A321, A321neo, A350 as well as the Boeing 777 and Boeing 787, making for a total of 202 aircraft.
As of February 2025, Air India Express serves 54 destinations — 37 in India and 17 international destinations. [1] [2]The state with the most destinations is Kerala with 4, followed by Tamil Nadu & Uttar Pradesh with 3 destinations each.
Air India Express is an Indian low-cost airline and a wholly owned subsidiary of Indian flag carrier airline Air India. [6] Currently, it is headquartered in Gurgaon , Haryana . [ 3 ] [ 7 ] The airline operates more than 2000 flights per week to 45 destinations across India, the Middle East and Southeast Asia . [ 8 ]
It was renamed as Air India Limited on 26 October 2010. [6] Air India Limited was privatized through its sale to the Tata Group. On 8 October 2021 Tata Sons paid ₹ 180 billion (US$2.1 billion) to Government of India and Tata will also assume ₹ 153 billion (US$1.8 billion) of Air India Limited's debt as per the transfer deal.
DIAL approved the proposal in September 2017. When DIAL's on-going expansion of Delhi Airport is completed around September 2022, [12] all UDAN operations would revert to Delhi Airport. [11] The Indian Air Force permitted the Civil Aviation ministry to use the air base for civil operations in August 2017.