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Air India, the flag carrier of India, operates from its main hub in Delhi and is owned by the Tata Group and Singapore Airlines. Founded in 1932, it serves 102 destinations with a fleet of 196 aircraft and became a member of Star Alliance in 2014. After nationalization in 1953 and a series of ownership changes, Air India returned to Tata Group in 2022.

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Air India - Wikipedia

Air India, the flag carrier of India, operates from its main hub in Delhi and is owned by the Tata Group and Singapore Airlines. Founded in 1932, it serves 102 destinations with a fleet of 196 aircraft and became a member of Star Alliance in 2014. After nationalization in 1953 and a series of ownership changes, Air India returned to Tata Group in 2022.

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Air India

Air India is the flag carrier of India with its main


Air India
hub at Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi,
and secondary hubs at Kempegowda International
Airport in Bengaluru and Chhatrapati Shivaji
Maharaj International Airport in Mumbai,
alongside several focus cities across India.
Headquartered in Gurugram, Haryana, India, the
airline is owned by Air India Limited, which is
owned by the Tata Group (74.9%) and Singapore
Airlines (25.1%). As of November 2024, the airline
serves 102 domestic and international destinations
operating a variety of Airbus and Boeing aircraft
and is the second-largest airline in India in terms of
An Air India Airbus A350
passengers carried after IndiGo. Air India became
the 27th member of Star Alliance on 11 July 2014. IATA ICAO Call sign
AI AIC AIRINDIA[1]
Founded in 1932 as Tata Airlines by J. R. D. Tata,
Founded 15 October 1932
Tata himself flew its first single-engine de Havilland
(as Tata Airlines)
Puss Moth, carrying air mail from Karachi to
Bombay's Juhu aerodrome and later continuing to Commenced 29 July 1946[2]
Madras (currently Chennai). After World War II, it operations
was nationalised by the Government of India in Hubs Delhi
1953 and was renamed Air India.[4] On 21 February Secondary hubs Bengaluru
1960, it took delivery of its first Boeing 707 named
Mumbai
Gauri Shankar (this aircraft would later crash as
Air India Flight 403) and became the first Asian Focus cities Ahmedabad
airline to induct a jet aircraft in its fleet. In 2000– Chennai
01, attempts were made to privatise Air India and Hyderabad
from 2006 onwards, it suffered losses after its Kochi
merger with Indian Airlines. Another privatization
Kolkata
attempt was launched in 2017, which concluded
with ownership of the airline and associated Thiruvananthapuram
properties return to the Tata Group after 69 years in Frequent-flyer Maharaja Club
2022.[5] program
Alliance Star Alliance
Air India also operates flights to domestic and Asian
destinations through its subsidiary Air India Subsidiaries Air India Express
Express. Air India operates a mix of narrow body Fleet size 196 (excl. subsidiary)
aircraft such as the Airbus A320 family and Boeing
Destinations 92
737 used for most domestic and short-haul
Parent company Air India Limited
international routes and wide body aircraft such as
the Airbus A350, Boeing 777 and Boeing 787 aircraft Headquarters Gurugram, Haryana, India
for long haul international routes. Air India's

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