List of airlines of India

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As of October 30, 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Corporation Act of 1953 was repealed with a view to remove monopoly of air corporations on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.[1][2]
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.[2]

Contents
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• 1 Market share
• 2 Operational airlines
• 3 Defunct airlines
• 4 See also
• 5 References

[edit] Market share

Domestic market share of Indian air carriers by passengers carried as of April, 2009[3]
Current market share of Indian carriers in the domestic aviation market is shown below:[4]
Kingfisher Airlines and Kingfisher Red (previously Air Deccan) 28%
Jet Airways and Jet Lite (previously Air Sahara) 25%
Air India and Indian (previously Indian Airlines) 16%
IndiGo 14%
SpiceJet 12%
GoAir 3%
Paramount Airways 2%
MDLR Airlines 0.004%

[edit] Operational airlines

List of aircraft operators which are licenced by the Directorate General of Civil Aviation
(DGCA).

COMMENCED
AIRLINE ICAO IATA CALLSIGN
OPERATIONS
Air India AIC AI AIR INDIA October 1932

Air-India Express AXB IX EXPRESS INDIA April 2005

Air India Regional LLR CD September 2007

Blue Dart Aviation BDA BZ BLUE DART May 1994

Club One Air August 2005

Kingfisher Red DKN DN DECCAN August 2003

Deccan Aviation DKN DN DECCAN December 1997

GoAir GOW G8 GOAIR June 2004

IndiGo Airlines IGO 6E IFLY August 2006

Jagson Airlines JGN JA JAGSON November 1991

Jet Airways JAI 9W JET AIRWAYS May 1993

Jet Lite RSH S2 LITEJET April 2007

Kingfisher Airlines KFR IT KINGFISHER May 2005

MDLR Airlines 9H MDLR March 2007

Paramount
PMW I7 PARAWAY October 2005
Airways

SpiceJet SEJ SG SPICEJET May 2005

Hi Flying Group HFA H9 HIFLY December 2005

[edit] Defunct airlines

This is a list of now defunct airlines from India

COMMENCED CEASED
AIRLINE
OPERATIONS OPERATIONS

Air Services of India 1936 1953

Airways (India) Limited 1945

Archana Airways 1991 1999

Alliance Air 1996 September 2007

Ambica Airlines 1947 1949

Bharat Airways 1945 1984

Crescent Air Cargo 2000 2006

Damania Airways

Darbhanga Aviations 1950 1962

East-West Airlines 1992 ~1995

Gujarat Airways
Himalayan Air Transport & Survey Limited 1934 1935

Himalayan Aviation 1948 1953

Indian National Airways 1933 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

Kalinga Airlines 1946 1953/1965

Madras Air Taxi Service 1933 1934

ModiLuft 1994 1996

NEPC Airlines

Orient Airways 1946 1953

Tata Airlines

Vayudoot
Vijay Airlines