List of defunct airlines of India
This is a list of defunct airlines of India
Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations | Ceased operations | Notes |
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Air Asiatic | 1990 | 1991 | |||||
Air Carnival | ![]() |
2S | ACV | CARNAIR | 2016 | 2017 | |
Air Costa | ![]() |
LB | LEP | LECOSTA | 2013 | 2017 | |
Air Dravida | ![]() |
2004 | 2008 | ||||
Air India Cargo | ![]() |
AI | AIC | AIR INDIA | 1932 | 2012 | |
Air India Regional | ![]() |
CD;9I | LLR | 2007 | 2017 | Called Alliance Air from 1996 to 2007 then renamed Alliance Air in March 2017. | |
Air Services of India | 1946 | 1953 | |||||
Air India International | ![]() |
AI | AIC | 1946 | 1962 | Renamed/merged to Air India | |
Air Mantra | M1 | MANTRA | 2012 | 2013 | |||
Air Odisha | 6X | ODISHA | 2011 | 2019 | |||
Air Pegasus | ![]() |
OP | PPL | PEGASUS | 2007 | 2016 | |
Ambica Airlines | 1947 | 1949 | |||||
Air Sahara | 2000 | 2007 |
Merged into Jet Lite, later merged into Jet Airways. | ||||
Archana Airways[1] | F5 | ACY | ARCHANA | 1991 | 1999 | ||
[2] | 1945 | 1955 | |||||
Aryan Cargo Express | ![]() |
YE | ACQ | ACE CARGO | 2005 | 2010 | Stored in Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai |
Chhattisgarh Air Link | 2012 | 2019 | |||||
XF | 1992 | 1993 | |||||
K6 | 1994 | 1997 | B.747F-Some wet-leased from Cargolux when needed. | ||||
Crescent Air Cargo | C8 | CAC | 2000 | 2006 | |||
Damania Airways[3] | D2 | DMQ | 1993 | 1997 | Renamed/merged to Skyline NEPC | ||
Darbhanga Aviation | 1950 | 1962 | |||||
Deccan 360[4] | ![]() |
3C | DEC | DECCAN CARGO | 2009 | 2011 | |
Deccan Airways Limited[2] | ![]() |
1945 | 1953 | ||||
Easy Air | 2015 | 2015 | Owned by Premier Airways | ||||
Elbee Airlines | LBE | 1994 | 1998 | ||||
East-West Airlines | W2 | EWT | 1992 | 1995 | |||
1992 | 1993 | ||||||
Gujarat Airways[5] | G8 | GUJ | GUJARATI | 1995 | 2001 | ||
Himalayan Aviation | 1948 | 1953 | Merged into Indian Airlines | ||||
[6] | 1934 | 1935 | |||||
Hinduja Cargo Services | ![]() |
LF | LCI | 1996 | 2000 | ||
1974 | 1980 | ||||||
Indian | ![]() |
IC | IAC | INDAIR | 2007 | 2011 | Merged into Air India |
Indian Airlines | ![]() |
IC | IAC | INDAIR | 1953 | 2007 | Renamed Indian, Merged into Air India |
Indian National Airways | 1925 | 1945 | |||||
Indian Overseas Airlines | 1947 | 1950 | |||||
1929 | 1931 | ||||||
1933 | 1948 | ||||||
Indus Air | ![]() |
O9 | ACY | 2006 | 2007 | ||
[7] | 1934 | 1939 | Its fall was triggered by the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942[8][9] | ||||
Jamair | 1946 | 1977 | |||||
Jet Airways | ![]() |
9W | JAI | JET AIRWAYS | 1993 | 2019 | Temporarily suspended |
Jet Konnect | ![]() |
S2 | JLL | 2009 | 2014 | Merged into Jet Airways, temporarily suspended | |
JetLite | ![]() |
S2 | RSH;JLL | 2007 | 2012 | Renamed/merged to JetKonnect, merged into Jet Airways, temporarily suspended | |
[10] | 1948 | 1953 | |||||
Kairali Airlines | 2013 | 2017 | |||||
Kalinga Airlines | 1946 | 1965 | |||||
Kingfisher Airlines | ![]() |
IT | KFR | KINGFISHER | 2003 | 2012 | Shut Down |
Kingfisher Red | DN | DKN | 2008 | 2012 | |||
MDLR Airlines | 9H | MDL | MDLR | 2007 | 2009 | Was sold to Emirates in 2010[8] | |
Mistri Airways | 1946 | 1947 | Renamed Indian Overseas Airlines | ||||
ModiLuft | ![]() |
HT, M9 | MOD | MODILUFT | 1994 | 1996 | Was converted into SpiceJet by Ajay Singh[8] |
NEPC Airlines | ![]() |
D5 | NEP | 1993 | 1997 | ||
Orient Airways | 1946 | 1955 | |||||
Paramount Airways | ![]() |
I7 | PMW | PARAWAY | 2005 | 2010 | |
Pushpaka Airlines | 1979 | 1983 | |||||
1993 | 1994 | ||||||
1971 | 1977 | ||||||
Sahara Airlines | ![]() |
S2 | JLL | 1993 | 2000 | Renamed Air Sahara, merged into JetLite, which was later merged into Jet Airways. | |
Simplifly Deccan | ![]() |
DN | DKN | DECCAN | 2007 | 2008 | Merged into Kingfisher Airlines, Shut down in 2012 |
Transportes Aéreos da Índia Portuguesa | 1955 | 1961 | Operated from Portuguese India | ||||
Vayudoot | ![]() |
PF | VDT | VAYU | 1981 | 1997 | |
V2 | VIF | 1993 | 1996 | ||||
1981 | 1997 |
See also[]
References[]
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- ^ a b "Airline Timetable Images - List of Complete Timetables". Timetableimages.com.
- ^ "1991-Privatisation of airlines: Flights of fancy". India Today. 17 Dec 2009. Retrieved 7 November 2011.
- ^ "State Bank of India opposes airline licence for new venture of Capt Gopinath". Econominctimes.indiatimes.com. Retrieved 10 June 2013.
- ^ "World Airline Directory". Flight-Global. 31 March 1999. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ^ "Airlines - India". Airlinehistory.co.uk.
- ^ "A Short History of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company". Travel-news-photos-stories.com.
- ^ a b c Nair, Tejas (28 April 2019). "List: Airlines in India and Their Fall". nair tejas dot com.
- ^ https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/download/GB%200136%20D-IR
- ^ "The plane that made India fly". The Hindu. 20 November 2006. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
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