List of airlines of India

As of 30 October 2007 the total fleet size of commercial airlines in India is 439. In 1994 the Air Corporation Act of 1953 was repealed with a view to remove monopoly of air corporations on scheduled services, enable private airlines to operate scheduled service, convert Indian Airlines and Air India to limited company and enable private participation in the national carriers. However, beginning 1990 private airline companies were allowed to operate air taxi services, resulting in the establishment of Jet Airways and Air Sahara. These changes in the Indian aviation policies resulted in the increase of the share of private airline operators in domestic passenger carriage to 68.5% in 2005 from 0.4 of 1991.

Operational airlines

List of airlines today in the market

AIRLINE ICAO IATA CALLSIGN COMMENCED

OPERATIONS Headquarters

Jet Airways JAI 9W JET AIRWAYS May 1993 Mumbai

JetLite RSH S2 LITEJET 1991

(As Air Sahara) Mumbai

Kingfisher Airlines KFR IT KINGFISHER May 2005 Mumbai

Kingfisher Red KFR IT KINGFISHER August 2003

(As Air Deccan) Mumbai

Air India AIC AI AIR INDIA October 1932 Mumbai

Air India Express AXB IX EXPRESS INDIA April 2005 Mumbai

Air India Regional LLR CD ALLIED 1996

(As Alliance Air) Mumbai

GoAir GOW G8 GOAIR June 2004 Mumbai

Indian IAC IC INDAIR May 1953 Mumbai

SpiceJet SEJ SG SPICEJET May 2005 Delhi

Jagson Airlines JGN JA JAGSON November 1991 Delhi

IndiGo IGO 6E IFLY August 2006 Gurgaon

]Market share

Current market share of Indian carriers in the domestic aviation market is shown below:

Jet Airways and Jet Lite 26.9%

Kingfisher Airlines 19.8%

NACIL 18.7%

IndiGo 16.2%

SpiceJet 12.6%

GoAir 5.8%

Defunct airlines

This is a list of now defunct airlines from India

AIRLINE COMMENCED

OPERATIONS CEASED

OPERAT0IONS

Air Services of India 1936 1953

Airways (India) Limited 1945

Archana Airways 1991 1999

Alliance Air 1996 September 2007

Air Deccan

America Airlines 1947 1949

Bhaarat Airways 1995 1999

Crescent Air Cargo 2000 2006

Damania Airways

Deccan Airways

Darbhanga Aviations 1950 1962

East-West Airlines 1992 ~1995

Gujarat Airways

Himalayans Air Transport & Survey Limited 1534 1935

Himalayan Aviation 1948 1953

Indian National Airways 1633 1945

Indian Overseas Airlines 1947 1950

Indian State Air Service (ISAS) 1929 1931

Indian Transcontinental Airlines 1933

Indus Airways 2006 2007

Irwaddy Flotilla & Airways 1934 1939

Jupiter Airways 1948 1949

ModiLuft 1994 1996

Air Sahara April 2007

Skyline NEPC

Orient Airways 1946 1953

Tata Airlines 15 October 1932 29 July 1946

Vayudoot

Vijay Airlines

Paramount Airways October 2005 2010

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