Airlines of India

Operational airlines

Airlines	ICAO	IATA	Call Sign	Commenced Operations	Headquarters	Status
Air India	AIC	AI	AIRINDIA	October 1932 as Tata Airlines	Delhi	National Carrier
Air India Express	AXB	IX	EXPRESS INDIA	April 2005	Kochi	National Carrier
Air India Regional	LLR	CD	ALLIED	1996 (as Alliance Air)	Delhi	National Carrier
AirAsia India	IAD	I5	ARIYA	12 June 2014	Bengaluru	Scheduled
Air Costa	LEP	LB	LECOSTA	14 October 2013	Vijayawada	Scheduled
Air Pegasus	PPL	OP	—	12 April 2015	Bengaluru	Scheduled
Air Odisha	AOA	AO	AIR ODISHA	2 November 2012	Bhubaneswar	Non-Scheduled
Blue Dart Aviation	BDA	BZ	BLUE DART	1995[1]	Chennai	Cargo
Club One Air	—	—	—	August 2005	Mumbai	Non-Scheduled
Chhattisgarh Air Link	CJS	CG	CHHATTISGARH AIR	2012	Raipur	Non-Scheduled [2]
Deccan Charters	DKN	DN	DECCAN	1997	Bengaluru	Non-Scheduled
Fly Easy	EZX	EX	Easyex	2015	Bengaluru	TBA
GoAir	GOW	G8	GO AIR	November 2005	Mumbai	Scheduled
IIC technologies Limited[3]	IICT	IIC	IIC TECH	JulY 2016	Hyderabad[4]	Non-Scheduled
IndiGo	IGO	6E	IFLY	August 2006	Gurgaon	Scheduled
Jet Airways	JAI	9W	JET AIRWAYS	May 1993	Mumbai	Scheduled
K2 Enterprises Private Limited	K2	K2	K2	January 2014	New Delhi	Non-Schedule
Pinnacle Air	PNC	PX	PINNACLE	October 2013	Ranchi	Non-Scheduled
Quikjet Cargo	FQA	QO	QUIK LIFT	Feb 2012	Bengaluru	Cargo
SpiceJet	SEJ	SG	SPICEJET	May 2005[5]	Gurgaon	Scheduled
TajAir	MGE	TX	—	November 1993 (as Megapode)[6]	Mumbai	Non-Scheduled
TruJet	TRJ	2T	TRUJET	12 July 2015	Hyderabad	Scheduled
Ventura AirConnect	—	—	—	7 September 2011	Ahmedabad	Scheduled
Vistara	VTI	UK	VISTARA	9 Jan 2015	Delhi	Scheduled

Defunct airlines

Airline	Commenced operations	Ceased operations	Headquarters
Air India Cargo	1954	2012	Mumbai
Air Deccan	2004	2007 Merged with Kingfisher Airlines and rebranded as Kingfisher Red	Bengaluru
Air Mantra	2012	2013	Delhi
Air Sahara	1991	2006 Merged with Jet Airways and rebranded as JetLite	Mumbai
Air Services of India	1936	1953	Mumbai[7]
Airways (India) Limited	1945	1955	Kolkata
Ambica Airlines	1947	1949	Bombay
Archana Airways	1991	1999	New Delhi
Aryan Cargo Express	2005	2010	New Delhi
Bhaarat Airways	1995	1999	Mumbai
Crescent Air Cargo	2000	2006	Chennai
Continental Aviation Limited	19??	19??	??
Damania Airways	1993	1997 Renamed Skyline NEPC after takover by the owners of NEPC Airlines	Mumbai[8]
Darbhanga Aviations	1950	1962	Kolkata
Deccan 360	2009	2011[9]	Bengaluru
East-West Airlines	1992	1995	Mumbai
Elbee Airlines	1994	1998	Mumbai
Gujarat Airways	1995	2001	Vadodara[10]
Himalayans Air Transport & Survey Limited	1934	1935	Kolkata
Himalayan Aviation	1948	1953	Kolkata
Indian	1953	2011 Merged with Air India	New Delhi
Indian National Airways	1925	1945	Delhi[7]
Indian Overseas Airlines	1947	1950	Mumbai
Indian State Air Service (ISAS)	1929	1931	Kolkata
Indian Transcontinental Airlines	1933	1948	Kolkata[7]
Indus Airways	2006	2007	New Delhi
Irwaddy Flotilla & Airways	1934	1939	Chennai
Jamair	1946	1977	Kolkata
JetKonnect	2012	2014 Merged with Jet Airways	Mumbai
Jupiter Airways	1948	1953 (Nationalised)	Chennai[11]
Kalinga Airlines	1946	1965	Kolkata
Kingfisher Airlines	2005	2013	Bengaluru
Kingfisher Red	2007	2013	Mumbai
MDLR Airlines	2007	2009	New Delhi
ModiLuft	1994	1996	Mumbai
NEPC Airlines	1993	1997	Chennai
Orient Airways	1946	1955 Moved to Karachi and later merged into PIA[12]	Kolkata
Paramount Airways	2005	2010	Chennai
Pushpaka Airlines	1979	1983	Mumbai
Tata Airlines	1932	1946 Became Air India	Mumbai[7]
Vayudoot	1981	1997	New Delhi
VIF Airways	1993	1996	Hyderabad
Vijay Airlines	1981	1997	Chennai