{"id":440997,"date":"2021-10-09T09:58:50","date_gmt":"2021-10-09T04:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=440997"},"modified":"2021-10-09T10:15:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-09T04:45:32","slug":"tata-brings-air-india-home-heres-the-carriers-90-year-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/tata-brings-air-india-home-heres-the-carriers-90-year-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Tata brings Air India home: Here&#8217;s the carrier&#8217;s 90-year journey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>* 1932 \u2013 J R D Tata pilots Karachi-Mumbai flight carrying mail, the first such mail service by an Indian company<\/p>\n<p>* 1946 \u2013 Tata Airlines became a public company and renamed Air India.<\/p>\n<p>* 1948 &#8211; Air India operates Bombay-London flight using Lockheed Constellation aircraft<\/p>\n<p>* 1952 \u2013 Planning Commission recommends merger and nationalization of private airlines<\/p>\n<p>* 1953 \u2013 Nine private airlines merged into two \u2013 Air India and Indian Airlines. The government agreed to Tata\u2019s demand to keep separate entities for domestic and international operations and appointed him chairman of Air India. <\/p>\n<p>* 1960- Air India receives its first Boeing 707 aircraft enabling non-stop flights Mumbai and London. By 1962 it became the world&#8217;s first all jet airline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* 1932 \u2013 J R D Tata pilots Karachi-Mumbai flight carrying mail, the first such mail service by an Indian company * 1946 \u2013 Tata Airlines became a public company and renamed Air India. * 1948 &#8211; Air India operates Bombay-London flight using Lockheed Constellation aircraft * 1952 \u2013 Planning Commission recommends merger and nationalization of private airlines * 1953 \u2013 Nine private airlines merged into two \u2013 Air India and Indian Airlines. The government agreed to Tata\u2019s demand to keep separate entities for domestic and international operations and appointed him chairman of Air India. * 1960- Air India receives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}