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{{Short description|List of defunct airlines in india}}
This is a '''list of defunct airlines of [[India]].'''

{| class="wikitable sortable"
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! Airline
! Image
! [[Airline codes#IATA airline designator|IATA]]
! [[Airline codes#ICAO airline designator|ICAO]]
! Callsign
! Commenced operations
! Ceased operations
! Notes
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| align="left" | Air Asiatic|| || || || || 1990 || 1991||
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| align="left" | [[Air Carnival]]||[[File:Air Carnival M-IBAI at Dubai DXB, Apr 2016.jpg|100px]] ||2S||ACV||CARNAIR|| 2016 || 2017 ||
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| align="left" | [[Air Costa]]|| [[File:Air Costa VT-LNR at Bengaluru, Aug 2015.jpg|100px]]||LB||LEP||LECOSTA|| 2013 || 2017 ||
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| align="left" | Air Dravida|| || || || ||2004 ||2008 ||
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| align="left" | [[Air India Cargo]] ||[[File:Air India Airbus A310-304 VT-EQS.jpg|100px]]||AI||AIC||AIRINDIA|| 1932 || 2012 ||
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| align="left" | [[Alliance Air (India)|Air India Regional]]|| [[File:ATR 42-320, Air-India Regional (Alliance Air) JP7687822.jpg|100px]]||CD;9I||LLR||ALLIED|| 2007|| 2017 ||Called [[Alliance Air (India)|Alliance Air]] from 1996 to 2007 then renamed back to [[Alliance Air (India)|Alliance Air]] in 2017.
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| align="left" | [[Air Mantra]] || ||M1|| ||MANTRA||2012 || 2013 ||
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| align="left" | [[Air Odisha]] || ||6X|| ||ODISHA||2011 || 2019 ||
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| align="left" | [[Air Pegasus]]|| [[File:ATR 42-500, Air Deccan JP7051138.jpg|100px]]||OP||PPL||PEGASUS|| 2007 || 2016 ||
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| align="left" | [[Air Sahara]]|| [[File:Boeing 737-43Q, Air Sahara JP6215934.jpg|100px]] || S2|| RSH|| || 2000 || 2007 ||
Merged into [[Jet Lite]], later merged into [[Jet Airways]].
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| align="left" |[[Air Services of India]] || || || || ||1946|| 1953||
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|align=left| [[AirAsia India]]||[[File:AirAsia India A320 Neo Aircraft.png|100px]] ||I5||IAD||RED KNIGHT|| 2014 || 2022 ||
Acquired by [[Tata Group]], renamed to [[AIX Connect]].
|-
|align=left| Airways (India)<ref name="timetableimages.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.timetableimages.com/ttimages/complete/complete.htm#Asia|title=Airline Timetable Images - List of Complete Timetables|website=Timetableimages.com}}</ref>|| |||||||| 1945 ||1955 ||
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|[[AIX Connect]]
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|I5
|IAD
|RED KNIGHT
|2022
|2024
|Merged into [[Air India Express]]
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| align="left" | [[Ambica Airlines]]|| || || || || 1947 || 1949 ||
|-
| align="left" | [[Archana Airways]]<ref name="avcodes.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.avcodes.co.uk/callsignlistres.asp|title=The Aviation Code Web Site - ICAO Callsigns beginning with|website=Avcodes.co.uk}}</ref> || ||F5||ACY||ARCHANA ||1991 || 1999 ||
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|align=left| [[Aryan Cargo Express]]|| [[File:VT-EQT Airbus A310-304(F) (cn 544) Aryan Cargo Express. (14209983065).jpg|100px]]||YE||ACQ||ACE CARGO ||2005 || 2010 || Stored in [[Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport]], [[Mumbai]]
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|align=left| [[Chhattisgarh Air Link]]||||||||||2012||2019||
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| align=left|CityLink Airways|| ||XF||||||1992||1993 ||
|-
| align=left|Cosmos Airways|| ||K6||||||1994||1997||B.747F-Some wet-leased from Cargolux when needed.
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|align=left| [[Crescent Air Cargo]]|| ||C8||CAC||||2000 || 2006 ||
|-
|align=left| [[Damania Airways]]<ref>{{cite news|title=1991-Privatisation of airlines: Flights of fancy|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/20091228-1991-privatisation-of-airlines-flights-of-fancy-741551-2009-12-16|publisher=[[India Today]] |date= 17 Dec 2009 |access-date=7 November 2011}}</ref>|| ||D2||DMQ||||1993 || 1997||Renamed/merged to [[NEPC Airlines|Skyline NEPC]]
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|align=left| [[Darbhanga Aviation]]|| ||||||||1950 || 1962 ||
|-
|align=left| [[Deccan 360]]<ref>{{cite news|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/state-bank-of-india-opposes-airline-licence-for-new-venture-of-capt-gopinath/articleshow/20504648.cms |title=State Bank of India opposes airline licence for new venture of Capt Gopinath |website=Econominctimes.indiatimes.com|access-date=10 June 2013}}</ref> ||[[File:Deccan 360 Airbus A310-300 Spijkers.jpg|100px]] ||3C||DEC||DECCAN CARGO|| 2009 || 2011||
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|align=left| [[Deccan Airways]]<ref name="timetableimages.com"/>||[[File:The seventh Nizam, Mir Osman Ali Khan, alongwith some close aides ready to take his first test ride in a Dakota from Begumpet airport .jpg|100px]]|||||||| 1945 || 1953 ||
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| [[Dove Airlines]] || || align=center| || align="left" | || align="left" | || align="left" | 2007 || 2015
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| align="left" | [[East-West Airlines (India)|East-West Airlines]]|| ||W2||EWT|| || 1992 || 1995 ||
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|align=left| [[Premier Airways|Easy Air]]|||||||||| 2015 || 2015 ||Owned by [[Premier Airways]]
|-
|align=left| [[Elbee Airlines]]||||||LBE|||| 1994 || 1998 ||
|-
|align=left| [[FlyBig]] |||| S9 || FLG || KRIS || 2020 || 2025
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| align=left|Goa Way Aviation|| |||| || || 1992|| 1993||
|-
| align="left" | [[Gujarat Airways]]<ref>{{cite web|title=World Airline Directory|url=http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1999/1999%20-%200797.html |publisher=Flight-Global|date= 31 March 1999 |access-date= 3 August 2014}}</ref> || ||G8||GUJ||GUJARATI ||1995 || 2001 ||
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| align="left" | [[GoAir]] || [[File:GoAir Airbus A320 Neo Aircraft.png|100px]] || G8 || GOW || GOAIR || 2005 || 2021 || Renamed to [[Go First]]
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| align="left" | [[Go First]] |||| G8 || GOW || GOAIR || 2021 || 2023 || Liquidated
|-
|Handley Page Indo-Burmese Transport<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=Aviation Safety Network > ASN Aviation Safety Database > Operator index > India > Handley Page Indo-Burmese Transport |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/database/operators/9904 |access-date=2022-03-18 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
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|First airline in present-day India, operated in the early 1920s
|-
| align="left" | Himalayan Air Transport & Survey<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.airlinehistory.co.uk/RestofWorld/India/Airlines.asp|title=Airlines - India|website=Airlinehistory.co.uk}}</ref>|| || || || || 1934 || 1935 ||
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|align=left| [[Himalayan Aviation]]|||||||| ||1948 || 1953 ||Renamed to [[Indian Airlines]]
|-
| align=left|[[Hinduja Cargo Services]] ||[[File:Hinduja Cargo Services Boeing 727-243F; VT-LCI, December 1998 (5695954622).jpg|100px]]||LF ||LCI || ||1996||2000||
|-
| align=left|Huns Air|| ||||||||1974 ||1980||
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|align=left| [[Indian Airlines|Indian]]||[[File:Airbus A320-231, Indian Airlines AN1470949.jpg|100px]] ||IC||IAC||INDAIR ||2007 || 2011 || Merged into [[Air India]]
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|align=left| [[Indian Airlines]]||[[File:Indian Airlines Airbus A320 Vyas.jpg|100px]] ||IC||IAC||INDAIR ||1953 || 2007 || Renamed to [[Indian Airlines|Indian]]
|-
|align=left| [[Indian National Airways]]|||||||||| 1925 || 1945 ||
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|align=left| [[Mistri Airways|Indian Overseas Airlines]]||||||||||1947 || 1950 ||
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|align=left| Indian State Air Service|| |||||||| 1929 || 1931 ||
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|align=left| Indian Transcontinental Airlines|| ||||||||1933 || 1948 ||
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|align=left| [[Indus Air]]|| [[File:VT-IOA (13991873935).jpg|100px]]||O9||ACY|||| 2006 || 2007 ||
|-
|align=left| Irrawaddy Flotilla & Airways<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.travel-news-photos-stories.com/2013/10/a-short-history-of-irrawaddy-flotilla.html|title=A Short History of the Irrawaddy Flotilla Company|website=Travel-news-photos-stories.com}}</ref>|| |||||||| 1934 || 1939 || Its fall was triggered by the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942<ref name="auto">{{cite web|url=https://www.nairtejas.com/lists/airlines-in-india-and-their-fall/|title=List: Airlines in India and Their Fall|first=Tejas|last=Nair|date=28 April 2019|website=nair tejas dot com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web | url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/download/GB%200136%20D-IR | title=Irrawaddy flotilla company, 1865 - 1950 | website=discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk}}</ref>
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| [[Jagson Airlines]] || [[File:Jagson Airlines.jpg|100px]] || || JGN || JAGSON || 2005 || 2010
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|align=left| [[Jamair]]|| |||||||| 1946 || 1977 ||
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|align=left| [[Jet Airways]] || [[File:VT-JEH@LHR_18AUG12_(8621607876).jpg|100px]]||9W ||JAI||JET AIRWAYS|| 1993 || 2019 ||Liquidated
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|align=left| [[Jet Airways|Jet Konnect]] ||[[File:JetKonnect-August2016.jpg|100px]]|| S2||JLL|||| 2009 || 2014 ||Merged into [[Jet Airways]], Liquidated
|-
|align=left| [[JetLite]]||[[File:JetLite Boeing 737-800 Vyas-2.jpg|100px]] ||S2||RSH/JLL|||| 2007 || 2012 ||Renamed/merged with [[JetLite|Jet Konnect]]
|-
|align=left| Jupiter Airways<ref>{{cite news|title=The plane that made India fly |url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/the-plane-that-made-india-fly/article3203252.ece |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |date= 20 November 2006 |access-date=18 February 2015}}</ref>|| |||| ||||1948 || 1953 ||
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|align=left| [[Kairali Airlines]]|| || ||||||2013 || 2017 ||
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|align=left| [[Kalinga Airlines]]|| || ||||||1946 || 1965 ||
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|align=left| [[Kingfisher Airlines]]||[[File:VT-VJO A330 King Fisher (4937630371) (2).jpg|100px]] ||IT||KFR||KINGFISHER|| 2003 || 2012 || Liquidated
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|align=left| [[Kingfisher Airlines#Domestic|Kingfisher Red]] || ||DN||DKN|||| 2008 || 2012 ||
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|align=left| [[MDLR Airlines]]||||9H||MDL||MDLR||2007 ||2009 ||Was sold to [[Emirates (airline)|Emirates]] in 2010<ref name="auto"/>
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|align=left| [[Mistri Airways]]||||||||||1946 || 1947 ||Renamed Indian Overseas Airlines
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|align=left| [[ModiLuft]] || [[File:ModiLuft Boeing 737-200 Martin.jpg|100px]]||HT, M9||MOD||MODILUFT|| 1994 || 1996 ||Was converted into [[SpiceJet]] by [[Ajay Singh (entrepreneur)|Ajay Singh]]<ref name="auto"/>
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|align=left| [[NEPC Airlines]]||[[File:Fokker F-27-500 Friendship, NEPC Airlines AN0192374.jpg|100px]]|| D5||NEP||||1993 || 1997 ||
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|align=left| [[Orient Airways]]|| |||||||| 1946 || 1955 || Became [[Pakistan International Airlines]] after transfer from [[Kolkata]], [[India]] to [[Karachi]], [[Pakistan]]
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|align=left| [[Paramount Airways]]|| [[File:Embraer 170-100SL, Paramount Airways JP5998519.jpg|100px]]|| I7||PMW||PARAWAY|| 2005 || 2010 ||
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|align=left| [[Pushpaka Aviation|Pushpaka Airlines]]||||||||||1979 || 1983 ||
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|align=left| RajAir|| || ||||||1993 || 1994 ||
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|align=left| Safari Airways|| |||||||| 1971 || 1977||
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|align=left| [[JetLite|Sahara Airlines]]||[[File:Boeing 737-73A, Sahara Airlines AN0133882.jpg|100px]] || S2||RSH||||1993 || 2000 || Renamed to [[Air Sahara]]
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|align=left| [[Simplifly Deccan]]||[[File:Airbus A320-232, Air Deccan JP6373125.jpg|100px]] ||DN||DKN||DECCAN || 2007 || 2008 || Merged into [[Kingfisher Airlines#Domestic|Kingfisher Airlines]]
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| [[Supreme Airlines]] || || || || || 2016 || 2018 ||
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|align=left| [[Transportes Aéreos da Índia Portuguesa]]|| || |||||| 1955 || 1961 || Operated from [[Portuguese India]]
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|[[TruJet]] ||[[File:TruJet_VT-TMP_at_Hyderabad,_Sep_2015.jpg|100x100px]] || 2T || TRJ|| TRUJET || 2015 || 2022|| Ceased all operations in February 2022
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| UP Air || || || || || 1995<ref>{{cite news|title=UP Airways becomes first to launch air-taxi service with a private airline in India |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/economy/story/19950515-up-airways-becomes-first-to-launch-air-taxi-service-with-a-private-airline-in-india-807264-1995-05-14 |newspaper=[[India Today]] |date= 15 May 1995 |access-date= 8 October 2025}}</ref> || 1998<ref>{{cite news|title=Life After The Big Sellout |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/specials/life-after-the-big-sellout-198050901070_1.html |newspaper=[[Business Standard]] |date= 9 May 1998 |access-date= 8 October 2025}}</ref> ||
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|align=left| [[Vayudoot]]||[[File:Vayudoot Dornier 228.jpg|100px]] ||PF||VDT||VAYU||1981||1997 ||
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|align=left| VIF Airways|| ||V2||VIF|||| 1995<ref>{{cite news|title=India's VIF Airways |url=https://aviationweek.com/indias-vif-airways |newspaper=[[Aviation Week Network|AviationWeek]] |date= 20 April 1995 |accessdate=20 September 2025}}</ref> || 1996 || Based at [[Begumpet airport]], Hyderabad, operated 30-seat [[Dornier 328]]-110 aircraft.
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|align=left| Vijay Airlines|| |||||||| 1981 || 1997 ||
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|[[Vistara]]
|[[File:Vistara,_VT-TSD,_Boeing_787-9_Dreamliner.jpg|100x100px]]
|UK
|VTI
|VISTARA
|2013
|2024
|Merged into [[Air India]]
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|[[Zooom Air]]
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|ZO
|ZOM
|ZOOM
|2013
|2024
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==See also==
* [[List of airlines of India]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

== Further reading ==
* Dhekney M.R., ''Air transport in India'', Vora & Co. Pibl. Ltd., Bombay, 1953
* Anwar M., Civil aviation in India, Thacker/Spink, Calcutta, 1954
* ''History of civil aviation in India'', Ministry of Civil Aviation & FICCI, 2008

[[Category:Defunct airlines of India|*]]
[[Category:Lists of defunct airlines|India]]

List of defunct airlines of India - Revision history

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