Abstract
French pilot Monseigneur Piguet flew the first commercial flight in India from Allahabad to Naini on February 18, 1911. However, it wasn’t until 1932 that Jahangir Ratanji Dadabhoy, the ‘Father of Indian Aviation’, established India’s first licensed commercial carrier.1 Tata Airlines was based out of Mumbai and transported both mail and passengers across India. In 1946 it changed its name to Air India. Two years later, the Indian Government acquired 49% of the company, and fully nationalized the airline in 1953 pursuant to the Air Corporations Act, 1953.2 this law not only allowed the Government to gain control over the erstwhile Tata Airlines, but also nationalized the entire sector. All existing airlines were merged into either Indian Airlines Corporation or Air India International.3 This monopoly continued for the next forty years. It wasn’t until the Indian economic liberalization of the 1990’s that the aviation sector was again open to private participation.
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