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 In 1994 the Air Corporation Act of 1953 was repealed with a view to remove monopoly of air corporations on scheduled services, enable private airlines to operate scheduled service, convert Indian Airlines and Air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]
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[edit] Market share
Current market share of Indian carriers in the domestic aviation market is shown below:[4]
| Jet Airways and Jet Lite (previously Air Sahara) | 29.9% |
| Kingfisher Airlines and Kingfisher Red (previously Air Deccan) | 29.1% |
| Air India and Indian (previously Indian Airlines) | 14.7% |
| IndiGo | 10.3% |
| SpiceJet | 10.3% |
| Go Air | 4.4% |
| Paramount Airways | 1.3% |
[edit] Operational airlines
List of aircraft operators which are licenced by the Indian civil aviation authorities.
AIRLINE  | ICAO | IATA | CALLSIGN | COMMENCED 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 | 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 | March 2007 | |||
| Paramount Airways | PMW | I7 | PARAWAY | October 2005 |
| 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
| AIRLINE | COMMENCED OPERATIONS | CEASED 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 | ||
| 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 |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS FOR GRANT OF PERMIT TO OPERATE SCHEDULED PASSENGER AIR TRANSPORT SERVICES"
- ^ a b "Airline Operations Regulatory Issues in India"
- ^ "Monthly Statistics of Total Passengers Carried in 2009 (January-March)"
- ^ "DOMESTIC PASSENGERS CARRIED BY INDIAN AIRLINES AND PRIVATE SCHEDUL
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