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
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.
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.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.
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.
DESTINATIONS: Wide network
within india with regional flights to Kabul, Dhaka, Chittagong,
Male, Karachi, Kathmandu, Lahore, Colombo, Bangkok, Singapore.
FLEET: Airbus
A300, A320, Boeing 737-200.
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