Air India Limited is a statutory corporation that was formed as National Aviation Company of India Limited by the Government of India to oversee the merger of Air India and Indian Airlines.[1] It is under the jurisdiction of Ministry of Civil Aviation, Government of India. The statutory corporation was renamed as Air India Limited on 26 October 2010.[2] It was incorporated on 30 March 2007 as a statutory corporation based at the Air India Building in Nariman Point, Mumbai.[3] The corporation was created to facilitate the merger of the two main state-owned airlines in India: Air India, with its subsidiary Air India Express and Indian, together with its subsidiary Alliance Air (was called Air India Regional for about 6 years from 2011 to March 2017).
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Upon completion of the merger on 26 February 2011 there is now one primary airline, Air India, with two subsidiary (Alliance Air and Air India Express) carriers providing regional and low-cost point-to-point services. AIL carriers connect 93 destinations (60 domestic and 33 international) in 24 countries as of February 2011.
Additional subsidiaries are Hotel Corporation of India Limited, Air India Charters Limited, and Airline Allied Services Limited.[4] In 2013, it split its engineering and cargo businesses into two separate subsidiaries, AI Engineering Services Ltd (AIESL) and AI Airport Services Limited (AIASL).[5]
References
- ↑ NACIL. India.gov.in.
- ↑ Maharaja gets back old name. The Times of India.
- ↑ Annual Report 2009 (English). Civilaviation.nic.in.Template:Dead link
- ↑ PMO seeks health report from Air India : India, News - India Today. indiatoday.intoday.in.
- ↑ Companies. livemint.com.