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Air India
Air India, the state-owned international carrier of the country, today has an extensive worldwide network offering both passenger and cargo services to more than 140 destinations across east and South Asia and the Middle East, East Africa, South East Asia, Western Europe and the UK. With Air India and Indian Airlines aligning their resources together, it has now become a part of National Aviation Corporation of India Ltd along with two of their subsidiaries, i.e. Alliance Air and Air India Express. In addition to together servicing 52 cities within the country, both these airlines offer direct connections to more than 35 international destinations all over the world.
Air India Baggage Allowance
As per Air India baggage policy, luggage more than 115 linear centimetres (55 + 40 + 20) in size needs to be checked-in. Anything less than that, as per baggage rules, can be treated as cabin luggage and taken inside the cabin. However, the baggage weight should not exceed 8 kgs. The Air India check-in baggage policy states that 25 kgs of luggage can be checked-in by Economy Class passengers, 35 kgs by Executive Class Passengers and 40 Kgs by First Class Passengers, free of charge. Baggage restrictions deny passengers to carry on board, items such as scissors, lighters, explosive materials, firearms and all kinds of flammable items.
Air India Destination & Services
- Air India International
- Air India flies to and from many international destinations today. These include Osaka and Tokyo in Japan, Lahore in Pakistan, Seoul in South Korea, Male in Maldives, Dar-e-Salaam and Nairobi in Africa, Shanghai and Hong Kong in China, Dhaka in Bangladesh, Kathmandu in Nepal, Toronto in Canada and Colombo in Sri Lanka. In addition to these, Air India flies to United States of America's major airports such as John F Kennedy International Airport, Chicago O'Hare International Airport, Newark Liberty International Airport and the Los Angeles International Airport. It now offers direct non-stop flights to JFK International Airport from starting from the cities of Mumbai and Delhi. The recently added Boeing 777-200LR aircrafts have been chosen to operate on these routes.
- Additionally, Air India has code share agreement with many international carriers such as including Air France, Thai Airways, Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines and Malaysian Airlines. Schemes abound, flight tickets to these destinations come at highly subsidized prices.
- Other than these, many middle east destinations are serviced as well such as Kuwait, Dammam, Riyadh, Doha, Dubai, Jeddah, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah
- Air India Domestic
- Sonee of the major Domestic destinations served by Air India include Amritsar, New Delhi, Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bangaluru, Coimbatore, Kochi, Madurai, Khozikode, Chennai, Tirupati, Hyderabad, Vishakhapatnam, Kolkata, Gaya, Varanasi and Port Blair.
Air India Fleet
Air India's fleet has a total operational fleet of a whopping 149 passenger planes, out of which 35 are Wide Body Planes and 114 are Narrow Body. Other than these, there are 10 freight careers. While most of the planes are used by Air India itself, a few of them have been leased out as well.
Air India Awards & Recognition
- Air India was rated as the Best Short-Haul International Airline - Galileo Express TravelWorld Award 2008.
- It was awarded the Reader's Digest Trusted Brand Award
- It was hailed as the 'Best South Asian Airline' by readers of TTG Mice, TTG-BT Mice China, TTG Asia and TTG China, all of which are renowned Mice and business travel publications.
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