History

An Introduction to Indian Airlines

In 1953, a new dream took shape - to airlink the vast South Asian subcontinent by a single, modern, and efficient airline. The Airline was Indian Airlines. Today, Indian Airlines, together with its fully owned subsidiary Alliance Air, is one of the largest regional airline systems in Asia with a fleet of 62 aircrafts, 4 wide bodied Airbus A300s, 41 Fly-by-wire Airbus A320s, 11 Boeing 737s, 2 Dornier D-228 aircrafts and 4 ATR-42.

Indian Airline's has been setting the standards for civil aviation in India since its inception in 1953. It has many firsts to its credit, including introduction of the wide-bodied A300 aircraft on the domestic network, the fly-by-wire A320, Domestic Shuttle Service and Walk-in Flights. Its unique orange and white logo emblazoned on the tails of all its aircraft is perhaps the most widely recognised Indian brand symbol that has over the years become synonmous with service, efficiency and reliability.

Network

Not just connecting India

The airlines network spans from Kuwait in the west to Singapore in the East and covers 75 destinations - 59 within India and 16 abroad. The Indian Airlines international network covers Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Qatar and Bahrain in West Asia, Thailand, Singapore, Yangon and Malaysia in South East Asia and Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Maldives in the South Asian Sub-Continent.
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Infrastructure

World-Class maintenance & Training facilities

The airlines aircraft maintenance facilities are of the highest international standards Indian Airlines has developed state-of-the art facilities for all aspects of maintenance, including engine overhaul. These facilities are used not only by Indian Airlines but also by other airlines from time to time. Our training facilities for Pilots are integrated at Hyderabad where Commanders and Captains are trained in all types of aircraft in the Indian Airlines fleet. State-of-the-art full flight simulators are available for A300, A320 and B737. Several international airlines also avail of these training facilities. Indian Airlines' continuous technology upgradation, also extends to other areas such as Reservations, Passenger Handling Systems and Customer Service.

People

The National Airline

Indian Airlines is presently fully owned by the Government of India and has a total staff strength of around 19600 employees. Its annual turn-over, together with that of its subsidiary Alliance Air, is well over Rs.4000 crores (around US$ 1 billion).

Indian Airlines flight operations centre around its four main hubs- the main metro cities of Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Chennai. Together with its subsidiary Alliance Air, Indian Airlines carries a total of over 7.5 million passengers annually.