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Introduction • It is the national flag carrier of India with a worldwide network of passengers and cargo service. • Its one of the two state owned airlines in the country ,other being, Indian Airlines. • Main bases- Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai and IndiraGandhi International Airport, New Delhi. • It connects 95 destinations around the world including 12 gateways in India with Air India Express, its fully owned

History of Air India • Beginning as Tata Airlines in 1932 by

J.R.D. Tata. • On October 15,1932 J.R.D. Tata himself flew a single engined De Havilland Puss Moth Registered VT. • Tata Airlines became Public Limited co. on 29July,1946 under the name Air India. • 49% of the airline was acquired by the Government of India in 1948. • It was granted status to operate international services from India under the name Air India International.

History contd….. • Entered the jet age in 1960 when its first

Boeing 707, named Nandadevi and registered VT-DJJ, was delivered. • On June 11, 1962 Air India became the world's first all-jet airline. • In 1994 the airline was registered as Air India Ltd. • It was the only airline that nationalized the air transportation industry

History contd… • AI started it's low cost subsidiary named

Air India Express in May 2004. • In March 2004, Air India started non-stop flights from Ahmedabad's Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport to London, Heathrow, making it the third station from India (after Mumbai and Delhi).

• Air India lost the chance to become a big

international airline, as it did not expand it's fleet due to delays by Govt. of India for

• A member of IATA, Air India carries

all types of cargo including dangerous goods (hazardous materials) and live animals, provided such shipments are tendered according to IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations and IATA Live Animals Regulations. • At the warehouse in Mumbai, Air India has developed a system of inventory management for cargo handling of import/export functions.

The new logo of Air India • The logo of the

new airline is a Flying Swan with the Konark Chakra placed inside it. The Flying Swan has been morphed from Air India’s characteristic logo, ‘The ‘Konark Chakra’ is reminiscent of

Air India offers three classes of service • First Class, Executive

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Class and Economy Class. Flat bed seats are offered for first class passengers. The airline also offers luxury lounges in its ground terminals for its First and Executive class travelers in select destinations within India. Air-India has Duty free

Trivia The Indian Prime Minister's flight operated by Air India is called AI 001.

Awards and recognition • The Airline entered the Guinness Book of World Records for the largest evacuation by a civil airliner, involving evacuation of over 111,000 people from Amman to Mumbai.

• The airline

received The Mercury Award for the years 1994 and 2003, from the International Flight Catering Association, for finest in-flight catering services.

President of India's brush with near death – One of President's VVIP squadron helicopters landed on runway 27 of the Mumbai airport, even as IC-866, the Mumbai Delhi flight of Air India was on the runway cruising at 120-130 knots (222 to 240 km/hr) for takeoff.   – An alert ATC which saw that the helicopter landed on the runway, immediately issued abort takeoff orders for the Air India flight.  Had the decision been delayed by 3 seconds or the pilot of the flight had responded with a three

Merger of Air India and Indian airlines

• Merger  was approved in March of the year

2008 by the government of India, and a new company called the National Aviation Company of India Limited (NACIL) was formed. • The Certificate to Commence Business was obtained in May of 2007. • The merger is expected to cost Rs 2 billion. • The Government has approved the appointment of Shri V Thulasidas and Dr V Trivedi as Chairman & Managing Director and Joint Managing Director, respectively, of the merged entity, with effect from the

Benefits of merger for Air India • Its market share will be increase to 30 %.

• The merger will provide an opportunity to

fully leverage strong assets, capabilities, infrastructure and skilled and experienced manpower available with both the companies to the optimum potential. • Help to achieve synergies and reduce cost. • A combined fleet size of over 112 aircraft, comparable to the best airlines in the Asian region, and will rank among the top 30 airlines in the world. • It will strengthen the Public Sector Airlines because merger would result in increase net benefit of Rs.600 crores ,which is 4%

After merger effects • Fewer people to fly AI acc. to DGCA

data • Prior to merger load factor of Air India (domestic) was 61.2% but after merger it ranges between 61.3 to 58.3%. • Indian Airlines also have lowest load factor in the year of merger despite brand new planes in its fleet.

How Air India is going to manage its profit in 2009? • By targeting efficiency and improved

productivity. • Controlling internal costs by revising wages. • Catering area to be closely monitored as the order of olive oil on board will be removed which will save million of dollars. • Wastages should be tackled. • Biggest savings through network integration, improvement in schedules, passenger loyalty programme. • They have managed to get good savings by two means –one is aircraft insurance

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