Indian Airways At A Glance

Indian Airways At A Glance

First in Airways:

First commercial civil aviation flight took place between Allahabad and Naini in 1911 – 6 miles .This is considered to be the world’s first airmail service

First International flight introduced  between  London -Karachi – Delhi  flight in 1912

First flight flew between Karachi and Bombay by JRD Tata In 1932

First civil aviation airport was formed in 1928 at Juhu, Mumbai

India’s first airline is Imperial Airways

First aircraft the Harlow trainer was rolled out for test flight in 1941

First Director general of Civil Aviation(DGCA)-Lt.Col. Shelmerdine in 1931

First International services flight between Bombay  and London via Cairo and Geneva started in 1948

First Civil Helicopter Services introduced in 1953

East-West Airlines was the first scheduled private airline in 1991

IC 814 flight of Indian Airlines was hijacked to Kandahar in 1999

Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata was the India’s first licensed pilot in 1929.

Sarla Thakral. Sarla Thakralwas the first Indian woman pilot license in 1936

First Boeing all-women crew flight commanded by Captain Saudamini Deshmukh  on September 1989

First youngest pilot Captain Nivedita Bhasin(26) of Indian Airlines in 1990

First woman commercial pilot Prem Mathur  flying for Deccan Airways in 1948

First Asian airline Boeing 707–420(Gauri Shankar) inducted  a jet aircraft in its flee in 1960

First national level private airline East West Airlines to operate in the country after 37 years in 1990

-Some Important facts :

India crowned world’s fastest growing aviation market in 2015 by the International Air Transport Association (IATA)

India is the ninth largest civil aviation market in the world with a market size of $16 billion and aims to become the 3rd largest market by 2020

Bangalore is the aviation manufacturing hub in India(65%)

Three largest airline in India in terms of passengers – IndiGo, Jet Airways and Indian Airlines

Air Corporations Act was passed by Indian Parliament in 1953

International Airports Authority of India (IAAI) was constituted in 1972

National Airports Authority was constituted in 1986.

Eight companies were in service within and outside the country at the time of independence, namely Tata Airlines, Indian National Airways, Air service of India, Deccan Airways, Ambica Airways, Bharat Airways and Mistry Airwa

Air India is commended in the Guinnes Book of World Records for the largest evacuation effort by a civil before the first Gulf War in 1990

India’s first ever budget airline Air Deccan begins operations on 25th August. The first flight is from Bangalore to Mangalore.

Indian Airlines was rebranded as Indian in 2005

The Regional Airlines Policy was announced in 2007

The path breaking Greenfield Airport Policy of the Government was announced in 2008

AERA was established to regulate the economic aspects of airports. It is an autonomous body set up by an Act of Parliament in 2009

Airport Economic Regulatory Authority Appellate Tribunal (AERAAT) was established in 2010

The real ‘Airlift’: Air India’s rescue mission in Kuwait won it a place in Guinness Records in 2016

-List of Hijackings:

Indian Airlines plane Fokker F27 Friendship aircraft named Ganga on its way from Srinagar to Jammu was hijacked by Hashim Quereshi and Ashraf Quereshi of the JKLF on 1971 January 30

Delhi-Jaipur-Mumbai flight (IC 491) was commandeered and taken to Lahore where the hijackers were overpowered on September 10,1976.

Devendra Nath Pandey and Bhola Nath Pandey hijacked Indian Airlinesflight IC-410 as it flew over Aligarh, to protest the imprisonment of Indira Gandhi by the Janata Party government on December 20, 1978.

An Indian airlines plane Jetliner (Boeing 737) on flight from Srinagar to Delhi is hijacked by Sikh Terrorists and taken to Lahore on September 29, 1981

Boeing 737 a scheduled flight from Bombay to New Delhi hijacked on August 22, 1982

An Indian Airlines flight from Jodhpur to Delhi was hijacked. The hijacked plane landed at Amritsar in 1982

1984 July 6 – An Indian Airlines jet carrying 255 passengers and a crew of nine on flight from Srinagar to New Delhi was hijacked and forced to land in Lahore, Pakistan.The hijackers were reported to be armed with pistols, daggers and explosives. The hijackers’ surrender to Pakistan authorities ended a 17- hour ordeal for the plane’s passengers and crew, who remained aboard the A-300 Airbus in suffocating heat, with little food and water.

An Indian Airlines flight IC 405 from Pathankot to Lahore was hijacked between Srinagar and Mumbai on July 1984

Seven young hijackers demanded an Indian Airlines jetliner, on a domestic flight from Chandigarh to Srinagar to be flown to the United States. The plane was taken to Lahore and then to Karachi and finally to Dubai where the defense minister of UAE negotiated the release of the passengers on 1984 August 24

TheAir India 182 Kanishka from Toronto via Montreal and London to New Delhi exploded off the coast of Ireland on June 23, 1985 by  Inderjit Singh Reyat

A Patna-Lucknow-Delh iIndian Airlines flight IC-810 was hijacked by Satish Chandra Pandey on Jan 22, 1993

Indian Airlines Flight IC427 hijacked between April 24 and April 25, 1993. Commandos from the National Security Guard (NSG) by Mohammed Yousuf Shah. The rescue was code-named Operation Ashwamedh.

Indian Airlines Lucknow-Delhi Flight IC-436 was hijacked by four college students of the Lucknow Arts College seeking to postpone their college exams in April 1993

A Delhi – ChennaiAir India Airbus 320 was hijacked by a man who wanted Marathwada University to be renamed after Dr B R Ambedkar on  January 13th, 1994.

Indian Airlines Flight 814 known as IC 814 was an Indian Airlines Airbus A300 en route from Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal to Indira Gandhi International Airport in Delhi, hijacked on 24 December 1999 by Harkat-ul-Mujahideen

International Airports of India

Name of the Airport - City - State

Veer Savarkar International Airport - Port Blair - Andaman and Nicobar Islands

Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport - Guwahati - Assam

Gaya Airport - Gaya - Bihar

Indira Gandhi International Airport - New Delhi - Delhi

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport - Ahmedabad - Gujarat

Kempegowda International Airport - Bengaluru - Karnataka

Mangalore Airport - Mangalore - Karnataka

Cochin International Airport - Kochi - Kerala

Calicut International Airport - Kozhikode - Kerala

Trivandrum International Airport - Thiruvananthapuram - Kerala

Raja Bhoj Airport - Bhopal - Madhya Pradesh

Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport - Indore - Madhya Pradesh

Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport - Mumbai - Maharashtra

Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Airport - Nagpur - Maharashtra

Pune Airport - Pune - Maharashtra

Zaruki International Airport - Shillong - Meghalaya

Biju Patnaik International Airport - Bhubaneshwar - Odisha

Sri Guru Ram Dass Jee International Airport - Amristar - Punjab

Jaipur International Airport - Jaipur - Rajasthan

Chennai International Airport - Chennai - Tamil Nadu

Civil Aerodrome - Coimbatore - Tamil Nadu

Tiruchirapalli International Airport - Tiruchirappalli - Tamil Nadu

Rajiv Gandhi International Airport - Hyderabad - Telangana

Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport - Lucknow - Uttar Pradesh

Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport - Varanasi - Uttar Pradesh

Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport - Kolkata - West Bengal

Domestic Airports

Airport - City - State

Donakonda Airport - Donakonda - Andhra Pradesh

Cuddapah Airport - Kadapa - Andhra Pradesh

Daporijo Airport - Daporijo - Arunachal Pradesh

Tezu Airport - Tezu - Arunachal Pradesh

Dibrugarh Airport - Dibrugarh - Assam

Rupsi Airport - Dhubri - Assam

Tezpur Airport - Tezpur - Assam

Jogbani Airport - Jogbani - Bihar

Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport - Patna - Bihar

Jagdalpur Airport - Jagdalpur - Chhattisgarh

Swami Vivekananda Airport - Raipur - Chhattisgarh

Diu Airport - Diu - Daman and Diu

Vadodara Airport - Vadodara - Gujarat

Kandla Airport - Kandla - Gujarat

Bhavnagar Airport - Bhavnagar - Gujarat

Keshod Airport - Keshod - Gujarat

Porbandar Airport - Porbandar - Gujarat

Rajkot Airport - Rajkot - Gujarat

Surat Airport - Surat - Gujarat

Gaggal Airport - Kangra - Himachal Pradesh

Shimla Airport - Shimla - Himachal Pradesh

Bhuntar Airport - Kullu - Himachal Pradesh

Jammu Airport - Jammu - Jammu & Kashmir

Dhanbad Airport - Dhanbad - Jharkhand

Sonari Airport - Jamshedpur - Jharkhand

Birsa Munda Airport - Ranchi - Jharkhand

Belgaum Airport - Belgaum - Karnataka

Hubli Airport - Hubli - Karnataka

Mysore Airport - Mysore - Karnataka

Vidyanagar Airport - Toranagallu - Karnataka

Agatti Aerodrome - Agatti - Lakshadweep

Gwalior Airport - Gwalior - Madhya Pradesh

Jabalpur Airport - Jabalpur - Madhya Pradesh

Khajuraho Airport - Khajuraho - Madhya Pradesh

Khandwa Airport - Khandwa - Madhya Pradesh

Akola Airport - Akola - Maharashtra

Aurangabad Airport - Aurangabad - Maharashtra

Jalgaon Airport - Jalgaon - Maharashtra

Kolhapur Airport - Kolhapur - Maharashtra

Nanded Airport - Nanded - Maharashtra

Gandhinagar Airport - Nashik - Maharashtra

Ozar Airport - Nashik - Maharashtra

Ratnagiri Airport - Ratnagiri - Maharashtra

Solapur Airport - Solapur - Maharashtra

Tulihal Airport - Imphal - Manipur

Lengpui Airport - Aizawl - Mizoram

Dimapur Airport - Dimapur - Nagaland

Biju Patnaik Airport - Bhubaneswar - Orissa

Jharsuguda Airport - Jharsuguda - Orissa

Berhampur Airport - Berhampur - Orissa

Jeypore Airport - Jeypore - Orissa

Hirakud Airport - Hirakud - Orissa

Nuagaon Airport - Nuagaon - Orissa

Utkela Airport - Utkela - Orissa

Madurai Airport - Madurai - Tamil Nadu

Salem Airport - Salem - Tamil Nadu

Tuticorin Airport - Tuticorin - Tamil Nadu

Agartala Airport - Agartala - Tripura

Kailashahar Airport - Kailashahar - Tripura

Khowai Airport - Khowai - Tripura

Jolly Grant Airport - Dehradun - Uttrakhand

Pantnagar Airport - Pantnagar - Uttrakhand

Balurghat Airport - Balurghat - West Bengal

Cooch Behar Airport - Cooch Behar - West Bengal

Future Airports

Airport - City - State

Warangal Airport - Warangal - Andhra Pradesh

Bijapur Airport - Bijapur - Karnataka

Karwar Airport - Karwar - Karnataka

Shimoga Airport - Shimoga - Karnataka

Gulbarga Airport - Gulbarga - Karnataka

Hassan Airport - Hassan - Karnataka

Bidar Airport - Bidar - Karnataka

Kannur International Airport - Kannur - Kerala

Navi Mumbai International Airport - Navi Mumbai - Maharashtra

Yavatmal Airport - Yavatmal - Maharashtra

Naini Saini Airport - Pithoragarh - Uttrakhand

Malda Airport - Malda - West Bengal

Two types of fund provided by GOI

GREEN INVESTMENT

Fresh Investment i.e. to build up airport from scratch

Bangalore & Hyderabad Airports

BROWN INVESTMENT

Renovation of old Airports

Delhi & Mumbai Airports

Awards & Recognitions received by Indian Airports:

World’s largest ‘charkha’ displaye at IGI airport

Mangaluru Airport conferred as best in the country

Cochin International Airport become India’s first green airport -world’s first solar powered airport

Indira Gandhi International adjudged as world’s best airport in 2015

Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has won three international awards for 2015 year given by the Airports Council International (ACI).

Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA) has been named as the world’s number 1 position for the second consecutive year in 25-40 Million Passengers Per Annum (MPPA) category

Indira Gandhi International Airport to get India’s first body scanner

Airports in Jaipur and Lucknow which are managed by the Airports Authority of India, have won the first and second place of the 2015 Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Awards

Golden Peacock National Quality Award 2015 for Delhi Airport

Kempegowda International Airport, Bangalore is India’s First to Receive Green Co Platinum Rating

Important Persons to know

Guruprasad Mohapatra – Chairman of Airports Authority of India

Pusapati Ashok Gajapathi Raju – Union Minister for Civil Aviation