Indian Airlines The Fleet With The Record Of Successes

The Indian Airlines is Indian national owned primarily domestic airline, under the federal Union Ministry of Civil Aviation. The service of Indian airline is said to be quiet an amusing one. It flies to 64 domestic and 16 international destinations offering 35,000 seats per day and is India‘s largest airline. It is fully owned by the Government of India with around 19,600 employees. Its annual turn-over, together with its subsidiary Alliance Air is well over Rs.4000 crores (around US$ 1 billion). Together with its subsidiary Alliance Air, they carry a total of over 7.5 million passengers annually.

Their aircraft livery is one of the longest in terms of time. Its aircraft are mainly white. The belly is in bare metal color. The tail is bright orange in color with its symbol in white (essentially the reverse of its logo). In most of the aircrafts, the logo is also painted on the engines over its bare metal color. It was set up on 1953 after legislation came into force to nationalize the entire airline industry in India.

Two new national airlines were to be formed along the same lines as happened in Britain with BOAC and BEA. Air India International took over international routes and their Airlines Corporation took over the domestic and regional routes. Eight former independent domestic airlines; Deccan Airways, Airways - India, Bharat Airways, Himalayan Aviation, Kalinga Air Lines, Indian National Airways, Air India, Air Services of India, were merged to form the new domestic national carrier.

Their Airlines Corporation inherited a large fleet of 74 DC-3 Dakotas, 12 Vikings, 3 DC-4s and various smaller types from the 8 airlines that made it up. Recently, competition on internal routes has been growing with the formation of a number of private airlines, the most successful of which has been Jet Airways.