Airline Name
Indian Airlines
IATA: IC / ICAO: IAC / Callsign: INDAIR
Country of Origin
India
Aircraft Types Used (from those available in WoA)
A319 (A319-100) (6 operated),Indian Airlines/Air India hybrid,
A320 (A320-200) (49 operated),
Double main gear variant,
Special livery (Pre-2005 colours),
B732F (737-200 Adv(F)) (4 operated),
Why should this airline be added?
The airline was formed in 1953 by the Indian government after they force nationalised the entire Indian airline industry. It was to operate alongside Air India which had been taken over from TATA by the Indian government along the same lines as the UK governments BOAC and BEA, with Air India handling international flights and Indian Airlines handling regional and local flights. Throughout the 20th Century the airline operated 737-200s, before adding A300s in the 1970s and then replacing the 737-200s with A320s beginning in 1988. The airline was announced to be merged with Air India as a single entity in 2007 after the airline industry was liberalised in the 1990s and low-cost carriers emerged in their dozens in the 2000s, due to the increased competition the airlines were both facing, though Indian Airlines was still making profit during this time. By 2011, the airline ceased to exist becoming fully part of Air India, with its subsidiary Alliance Air becoming part of the group. The last Indian Airlines liveried aircraft, VT-SCF, was repainted in 2018.Would be a nice airline to see as we have gained CNN and during its latter years it served routes to the likes of Dubai so MCT wouldn’t be much of a stretch for it to visit.
. I’ll add it in.
