Air India Limited

Air India Limited
Company typeSubsidiary of Tata Group
IndustryAviation
Founded30 March 2007; 17 years ago (2007-03-30)
HeadquartersNew Delhi
Key people
Services
RevenueIncrease₹51,559 crore (US$6.2 billion) (FY24)[1]
Positive decrease₹−5,756 crore (US$−690 million) (FY24)[2]
OwnerTata Group
Number of employees
Increase ~18000(Sept 2024)[3]
Divisions

Air India Limited is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Tata Group. On the anniversary of the airline's founder J. R. D. Tata's birth, its new headquarters at Vatika One On One in Gurugram[4] was inaugurated. The new headquarters space will be home to all TATA Group airlines. It was headquartered at the Airlines House in New Delhi[5] prior to TATA's takeover.

It was previously a central public sector undertaking under the ownership of Ministry of Civil Aviation. It was incorporated on 30 March 2007 as the National Aviation Company of India Limited to oversee the merger of Air India, Indian Airlines and Alliance Air.[6] It was renamed as Air India Limited on 26 October 2010.[7]

Air India Limited was privatized through its sale to the Tata Group. On 8 October 2021 Tata Sons paid ₹180 billion (US$2.2 billion) to Government of India and Tata will also assume ₹153 billion (US$1.8 billion) of Air India Limited's debt as per the transfer deal.[8][9] The remaining ₹462.62 billion (US$5.5 billion) of Air India Limited's debt was also transferred to AIAHL.[10][11]

The Tata Group requested approval from the CCI to merge AirAsia India with Air India Limited in April 2022,[12] which was granted on 14 June 2022.[13]

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