Who remembers these Airlines of India...
Mar 16, 2011, 1:36 pm
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Unfortunately not, but for many years (well in the 2000s), you could see the remnants of the Jamair DC3 near the old WW2 era hangars at Dum Dum. They may well be there even now, but the taxiway has changed and I do not recall going anywhere near those old hangars of late.
Mar 17, 2011, 5:03 am
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I have also heard of an Air India Super Constellation somwehere in Pune airport...anyone?
I am quite tempted....seriously.. to devote my spare time and possibly three-six months off my job researching the history of Indian civil aviation!
Mar 17, 2011, 5:14 am
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Aviation in India has made news only over the last two decades, but as this thread has shown, there's a very interesting side to it even before the liberation.
More recently I suggested cousin of mine (cousins husband, actually) , who in his previous life was a columnist/on the editorial board of Times of India (and subsequently, a contributor to Forbes India) to consider an essay on "Airlines as a function of National Identity, and How India compares"...
...also suggested an angle on the fact that Emirates now operates the most flights out of India than any other Airline, and is posturing as the de-facto national Airline.
If he gets around to it, I'll post
Mar 17, 2011, 8:00 am
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This is incredible. i hope Fedup2 has seen the post (scroll down the blog for the pic of the Jamair Gooney)
I have also heard of an Air India Super Constellation somwehere in Pune airport...anyone?
I am quite tempted....seriously.. to devote my spare time and possibly three-six months off my job researching the history of Indian civil aviation!
I have also heard of an Air India Super Constellation somwehere in Pune airport...anyone?
I am quite tempted....seriously.. to devote my spare time and possibly three-six months off my job researching the history of Indian civil aviation!
Mar 17, 2011, 8:06 am
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Mar 17, 2011, 9:32 am
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Yup, that is what I thought as well.
I remember boxes of food (kind of like a cardboard box you would get from a pastry shop, but with one sandwich, a piece of cake and a savoury snack) that were handed out to every pax on a Vayudoot flight from DEL-JAI a long time ago! Most carried the box as there wasn't enough time to eat it all onboard!
Kind of different from the Rs 80 for a muffin on Jet Konnect these days!!
I remember boxes of food (kind of like a cardboard box you would get from a pastry shop, but with one sandwich, a piece of cake and a savoury snack) that were handed out to every pax on a Vayudoot flight from DEL-JAI a long time ago! Most carried the box as there wasn't enough time to eat it all onboard!
Kind of different from the Rs 80 for a muffin on Jet Konnect these days!!
Mar 17, 2011, 4:44 pm
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... I don't recall any Pawan Hans fixed wing flights in and out of Jammu & Kashmir -- helicopter service is another matter.
The last of the airlines with a publicly-declared ownership stake by a princely ruler would have to take the cake for an airline of (independent) India that few if any here would remember.
Of the domestic Indian airlines flights whose names are no longer showing up at Indian airports, most such travel of mine was done on Modiluft, with Sahara and Deccan way behind.
The last of the airlines with a publicly-declared ownership stake by a princely ruler would have to take the cake for an airline of (independent) India that few if any here would remember.
Of the domestic Indian airlines flights whose names are no longer showing up at Indian airports, most such travel of mine was done on Modiluft, with Sahara and Deccan way behind.
Mar 18, 2011, 7:15 am
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Now, that would be a very interesting project. ^
Aviation in India has made news only over the last two decades, but as this thread has shown, there's a very interesting side to it even before the liberation.
More recently I suggested cousin of mine (cousins husband, actually) , who in his previous life was a columnist/on the editorial board of Times of India (and subsequently, a contributor to Forbes India) to consider an essay on "Airlines as a function of National Identity, and How India compares"...
...also suggested an angle on the fact that Emirates now operates the most flights out of India than any other Airline, and is posturing as the de-facto national Airline.
If he gets around to it, I'll post
Aviation in India has made news only over the last two decades, but as this thread has shown, there's a very interesting side to it even before the liberation.
More recently I suggested cousin of mine (cousins husband, actually) , who in his previous life was a columnist/on the editorial board of Times of India (and subsequently, a contributor to Forbes India) to consider an essay on "Airlines as a function of National Identity, and How India compares"...
...also suggested an angle on the fact that Emirates now operates the most flights out of India than any other Airline, and is posturing as the de-facto national Airline.
If he gets around to it, I'll post
Mar 18, 2011, 7:17 am
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Mar 26, 2011, 1:19 am
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I may be too young to have known some of the defunct airlines of India you all mentioned, but I fondly remember flying NEPC-Damania (were the two merged at any point of time? atleast that's what it showed on our ticket stubs) a couple of round-trips bet COK (Cochin) and AGX (Agatti, in the Lakshadeep Islands) in the mid-90s. Can't recall the make of the aircraft, but it sat ~50 pax. I was only in my early teens and remember the two "air hostesses" being young and very beautiful. I was traveling with my parents for a summer getaway to the islands, but they didn't mind flirting with me in a friendly way in front of my parents 
I still have the pictures I took inside the cabin. I may have seen a lot more of the world since, but I will never forget that first sight of the amazing islands in the sparkling emerald lagoons, from the small windows of that rattling craft. I wish I can go back again soon!
I still have the pictures I took inside the cabin. I may have seen a lot more of the world since, but I will never forget that first sight of the amazing islands in the sparkling emerald lagoons, from the small windows of that rattling craft. I wish I can go back again soon!
Mar 27, 2011, 3:58 pm
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I may be too young to have known some of the defunct airlines of India you all mentioned, but I fondly remember flying NEPC-Damania (were the two merged at any point of time? atleast that's what it showed on our ticket stubs) a couple of round-trips bet COK (Cochin) and AGX (Agatti, in the Lakshadeep Islands) in the mid-90s. Can't recall the make of the aircraft, but it sat ~50 pax. I was only in my early teens and remember the two "air hostesses" being young and very beautiful. I was traveling with my parents for a summer getaway to the islands, but they didn't mind flirting with me in a friendly way in front of my parents I still have the pictures I took inside the cabin. I may have seen a lot more of the world since, but I will never forget that first sight of the amazing islands in the sparkling emerald lagoons, from the small windows of that rattling craft. I wish I can go back again soon!
I still have the pictures I took inside the cabin. I may have seen a lot more of the world since, but I will never forget that first sight of the amazing islands in the sparkling emerald lagoons, from the small windows of that rattling craft. I wish I can go back again soon!You may be too youing (or me too old) on the defunct airline sbut you have truly had the luck to have a lifetime experience I am sure few of us have had...
IN sium India has a ninteresting and ignored aviation history as diverse and vaiegated as the country!!!
Mar 28, 2011, 8:21 am
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Thanks rathin100!!
And by the way, best wishes for that project on the history of india's civil aviation... hope it happens. I'm sure there's a lot of interesting stories and anecdotes to be told. Perhaps the research phase could be crowd-sourced, so that young aviation geeks like me can also maybe participate and contribute!
And by the way, best wishes for that project on the history of india's civil aviation... hope it happens. I'm sure there's a lot of interesting stories and anecdotes to be told. Perhaps the research phase could be crowd-sourced, so that young aviation geeks like me can also maybe participate and contribute!