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What we compareAir IndiaAir India Express
Country in archiveIndiaIndia
Founded1932April 29, 2005
FounderJ. R. D. TataAir India
HeadquartersGurugram, Haryana, IndiaGurugram, Haryana, India
Name originThe airline began in 1932 as Tata Airlines, part of Tata Sons. It became a public limited company named Air India on 29 July 1946, and its name was officially shortened from Air India International to Air India in June 1962. The name is simply the country's name attached to the carrier that became its flag airline.The name combines the parent airline's name, Air India, with "Express", pointing to a low-cost, point-to-point service launched as an Air India subsidiary in 2005. This is a plain reading of the name, not a published explanation.
HighlightsLockheed Constellation, Boeing 707, Boeing 747-200, Airbus A350-900Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737 MAX 8
Earliest archived brand logo19322005
Latest archived logo20232023
Archived logo assets102

Logo dates are archive labels; symbols dated before a brand's founding are excluded from its earliest-logo date. Asset counts include all archived variants, not just redesigns. A dash means a value is unavailable.

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