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  • Indian Airlines, India's premier airline, has now been renamed as Indian. But Indian Airlines (IA) had establish itself as such a strong brand name that majority of people are still not aware that its name has been changed to Indian. Indian Airlines is fully owned by the Government of India and came into came into being with the enactment of the Air Corporations Act 1953.

    Indian Airlines began its operation on 1st August 1953 and was entrusted with the responsibility of providing air transportation within the country as well as to the neighboring countries. Indian Airlines came into existence after nationalization of eight private airlines. At the time of nationalization, Indian Airlines inherited a fleet of 99 aircraft consisting of various types of aircrafts. With nationalization Indian Airlines started modernization in Indian civil aviation industry. Year 1964 heralded the beginning of the jet era in Indian Airlines when the Caravelle aircraft was inducted into the fleet. Continuous upgradation in its fleet has been going on ever since.

    Presently, Indian Airlines, together with its fully owned subsidiary Alliance Air, has a fleet of 70 aircraft (3 wide bodied airbus A300s, 47 fly-by-wire airbus A320s, 3 Airbus A319s, 11 Boeing 737s, 2 Dornier Do-228 aircraft and 4 ATR-42). Another 43 new aircrafts (i.e. 19 A319s, 4 A320s & 21 A321s ) are expected to be inducted in Indian Airlines by November 2006.

    Indian Airlines transport network spans from Kuwait in the west to Singapore in the east and covers 76 destinations (58 within India and 18 abroad). The Indian Airlines international network covers Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Qatar and Bahrain in West Asia; Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and Myanmar in South East Asia and Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Maldives in the South Asia sub-continent.

     







     

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