| URL: |
http://www.airindia.com/
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| Telephone: |
+91 2548-9999 |
| Type of airline: |
Scheduled airline |
| Country: |
India (IN) |
| Call sign: |
Air India |
| Address: |
Air India
CM-Western India,
Air India Building,1st floor,
Nariman Point
Mumbai-400021
India |
| Home airport: |
BOM |
| Year founded: |
1932 |
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| Alliances: |
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Number of aircraft: |
104 |
| Passengers per year: |
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Pre check-in: |
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| Check-in opens: |
180 min |
Check-in closes: |
45 min |
| Baggage allowance: |
20 kg |
Hand luggage / hold luggage: |
8 kg max. bis 115 cm |
| Seat reservation charge: |
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Legroom (seat pitch): |
81,5 - 91,5 cm |
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Charge for sporting equipment: |
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Description:
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.
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