Air India
Airline Code: AI
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.
Important destinations covered by Air India are Bangkok, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala
Lumpur, Osaka, Singapore, Tokyo, Seoul, Dar-es-Salam, Nairobi, Frankfurt, London,
Paris, Birmingham, Abu Dhabi, Al Ain, Bahrain, Dammam, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Muscat,
Riyadh, Kuwait, Los Angeles, Chicago, Newark, New York, and Toronto.
Air India Major Hubs:
Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport
Indira Gandhi International Airport
Mileage Program: Flying Returns
Alliance Network and Partners: Star Alliance
Codeshare Partners:
Swiss
Air France
Kuwait Airways
Lufthansa
Austrian Airlines
Aeroflot
Air Mauritius
Turkish Airlines
Singapore Airlines
Emirates
Malaysia Airlines
Thai Airways
Aircraft Type:
Airbus - A310, A310 Freighter
Boeing- B777-200ER/200LR/300ER/200A, B747-400/400(Combi)/300(Combi), B767-300ER
Fleet Size: 48 (+57 on order)
No. of Destinations: 95
Airline was founded in: 1932