Air India

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• Air India Economy Class
• Air India Business Class
• Air India First Class

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• Star Alliance

Contact

• Air India Contact

Miscellaneous

• IATA Code = AI
• Ticket Code: 098
• Hubs: Mumbai (BOM)
• Headquarters: Mumbai (BOM)

About Air India

Air India is India's national flag carrier. Although air transport was born in India on February 18, 1911 when Henri Piquet, flying a Humber bi-plane, carried mail from Allahabad to Naini Junction, some six miles away, the scheduled services in India, in the real sense, began on October 15, 1932. It was on this day that J.R.D. Tata, the father of Civil Aviation in India and founder of Air India, took off from Drigh Road Airport, Karachi, in a tiny, light single-engined de Havilland Puss Moth on his flight to Mumbai (then known as Bombay) via Ahmedabad.

He landed with his precious load of mail on a grass strip at Juhu. At Mumbai, Neville Vintcent, a former RAF pilot who had come to India from Britain three years earlier on a barn-storming tour, during which he had surveyed a number of possible air routes, took over from J.R.D.Tata and flew the Puss Moth to Chennai (then Madras) via Bellary.

Fleet

• 22 AirbusA310-300
• 13 Boeing 747-400
• 2 Boeing 747-200
• 2 Boeing 747-300
• 4 Boeing 777-200

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