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Thursday, 24 May 2007 13:41 Hiren Pathak

(image source:aviationInfo.co.in)

State owned carriers Air India and Indian Airlines may be merged after their initial public offerings are completed. A merger could help raise the competitiveness of the airlines against more efficient privately owned carriers

The mega airline resulting from the Air-India and Indian merger would operate with the Air-India brand. The merger would result in creation of India’s largest airline. The merger would be completed by June 15 and the new airline would be headquartered in Mumbai.

AviationInfo.co.in has reported that the new logo of the new airline is a Flying Swan with the Konark Chakra placed inside it. The Flying Swan has been morphed from Air India’s characteristic logo, ‘The Centaur’ whereas the ‘Konark Chakra’ is reminiscent of Indian’s logo. (image above)

After the merger between the two national carriers—Indian Airlines and Air India, the merged airline will have its first flight from Mumbai to New York on 1 August this year, said Union Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel while unveiling the logo for the merged airline officially to be named “Air India”. The logo contains characteristics of both the entities.

The new airline will retain Air India’s popular mascot the “Maharaja”. The AI code used for erstwhile Air India will be used for the merged airline. Air India Express will be the only low cost airline to be run under the new airline.

The merged company—National Aviation Company Ltd—is supposed to float the initial public offering IPO in 2008, said the minister.

The minister said the first Boeing B777 LR would be delivered this July followed by two other B777 LRs.

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Written By: Hiren Pathak. You can contact him at informationmadness AT gmail DOT COM
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Arnab Roy
2008-02-28 19:08:58
u might like it: http://www.flickr.com/photos/abolakanto/734520785/

at the same time I did the website also, I swear that was the much better than the exisitng one…but those Babus only to went for this ameture website!

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