Blending the names of the country’s state-owned domestic and international carriers, Indian and Air-India, respectively, the government is planning to brand the merged entity as “Air Indian”. The Cabinet cleared a proposal to merge the two airlines last month. Read the rest of this entry »

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New Delhi: With Civil Aviation minister Praful Patel making it abundantly clear that he wants the proposed merger of national carriers Air India and Indian to go through before the end of the current fiscal, his ministry, in a confidence-building exercise, has asked the top management of both the airlines to circulate a detailed note on the proposed merger to every single employee of theirs. Read the rest of this entry »

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SINGAPORE: Air India, the nation’s largest international carrier, could push for an initial public offering in 2008, at least a year after it plans to merge with the government-owned Indian Airlines. Read the rest of this entry »

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New Delhi, Oct 30: As the process to merge Air-India and Indian gathers momentum, a business model that is understood to have found acceptance among officials has recommended creation of the post of a group CMD for the merged entity with special business units (SBUs) headed by separate CEOs. Read the rest of this entry »

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State-owned carriers Air India and Indian Airlines are planning to float a joint venture to bid for ground handling operations at the GMR Group-promoted Hyderabad International Airport. Read the rest of this entry »

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Indian Airlines Ltd, India’s leading airline, celebrated the delivery of its first directly purchased A319 aircraft at a ceremony at the Indira Gandhi International airport in New Delhi on 19th October 2006. The aircraft is one of 43 A320 Family aircrafts ordered in January 2006. Read the rest of this entry »

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Hive-off to take place after the merger between Indian Airlines and Air-India. Read the rest of this entry »

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NEW DELHI (XFN-ASIA) - State-run domestic carrier Indian (formerly known as Indian Airlines) today received the first jet of a 43-plane order placed with Europe’s Airbus Industries under a 2 Billion USD deal signed in February, officials said. This is the first new aircraft that the airline added to its fleet in about a decade, a federal aviation ministry official said. Read the rest of this entry »

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