But after the independence of the country, Tata Airlines was nationalized and it was named Air India. Tata Group always felt the lack of having its airline and it started Vistara in the year 2013. However, when the government decided to privatize Air India, Tata Group bought it too due to emotional attachment, but it was becoming difficult for it to operate two airlines, so Tata Group decided to merge Vistara with Air India in the year 2022. Now from November 12, Air India will operate all the flights of Vistara. Ticket booking will also be done from Air Indiaโs website. Tickets of 2.7 lakh customers of Vistara have been transferred to Air India.
Air India-Vistara merger
Loyalty membersโ programs will be transferred to Maharaja Club. Air India will now become the only domestic airline to operate both full-service and low-cost passenger service. Its share on international routes will increase to more than 50 per cent. It will also become the countryโs second-largest domestic airline after Indigo. After this merger, Singapore Airlines, which was earlier a partner of Tata Group in Vistara, will have a share of 25.1 per cent in Air India. With the merger, Air Indiaโs fleet will increase from 144 to 214 aircraft.
Tata Groupโs low-cost carrier Air India Express also has 90 aircraft. Air India has also ordered 470 aircraft. Vistara brought many changes in the aviation industry. It was the first airline in Asia to offer Starbucks coffee on flights. Vistara was also the first airline in the country to add Airbus A321 LR to its fleet and to get the aircraft cleaned by robots. It also introduced WiFi internet connectivity on international flights. It was the first airline to provide free WiFi to loyalty members.
Vistara started its operations on 9 January 2015. It facilitated air travel for more than 5 lakh customers in just 7 months. Vistara provided flight services to 6.5 crore passengers during its entire operation. It operated direct flights to around 12 countries. For now, passengers will continue to get Vistara experience along with aircraft products and services. This includes the flight menu, cutlery etc. The logo of Vistara has also not been changed as of now. Customers will continue to get facilities like travel insurance, seats, a
Purple gift card, a flying return programme, and extra luggage space. If you liked our video, then definitely like and share it. If you have not subscribed to Dainik Jagran till now, then to know the latest news, you must subscribe to Dainik Jagran.
It is now time to say goodbye to the Tata Groupโs expansionist because it will be merged with Tata Groupโs Air India on Tuesday i.e. 12th November 20224. Now Air India will be the only full-service carrier in the country. In the last 17 years, the number of full-service carriers has decreased from five to just one. After this merger, Air Indiaโs dominance on domestic and international routes has increased further.
Air India was the first airline in the country. It was started in the year 1932 by JRD Tata. Then its name was Tata Airlines. But after the independence of the country, Tata Airlines was nationalized and it was named Air India. Tata Group always felt the lack of its airline and it started Vistara in the year 2013. However, when the government decided to privatize Air India, Tata Group bought it too due to its emotional attachment, but it was getting difficult for it to operate two airlines, so Tata Group decided to merge Vistara with Air India in the year 2022. Now from November 12, Air India will operate all the flights of Vistara. Ticket booking will also be done from Air Indiaโs website.
Tickets of 2.7 lakh customers of Vistara have been transferred to Air India. Loyalty membersโ programs will be transferred to Maharaja Club. Air India will now become the only domestic airline to operate both full-service and low-cost passenger service. Its share on international routes will increase to more than 50 per cent. It will also become the countryโs second-largest domestic airline after Indigo. After this merger, Singapore Airlines, which was earlier a partner of Tata Group in Vistara, will have a share of 25.1 per cent in Air India. With the merger, Air Indiaโs fleet will increase from 144 to 214 aircraft.
Tata Groupโs low-cost carrier Air India Express also has 90 aircraft. Air India has also ordered 470 aircraft. Vistara brought many changes in the aviation industry. It was the first airline in Asia to offer Starbucks coffee on flights. Vistara was also the first airline in the country to add Airbus A321 LR to its fleet and to get the aircraft cleaned by robots. It also introduced WiFi internet connectivity on international flights. It was the first airline to provide free WiFi to loyalty members.
Vistara started its operations on 9 January 2015. It facilitated air travel for more than 5 lakh customers in just 7 months. Vistara provided flight services to 6.5 crore passengers during its entire operation. It operated direct flights to around 12 countries. For now, passengers will continue to get Vistara experience along with aircraft products and services. This includes the flight menu, cutlery etc. The logo of Vistara has also not been changed as of now. Customers will continue to get facilities like travel insurance, seats, Purple gift cards, a flying return programme, and extra luggage space. If you liked our video, then definitely like and share it. If you have not subscribed to Dainik Jagran till now, then to know the latest news, you must subscribe to Dainik Jagran.
How did Air India start? Case study Air India
It started in 1932 when the flight from Karachi to Mumbai was flown by JRD Tata. He is known as the Father of Indian Aviation. It reached Mumbai from Karachi with a postal letter. After that, the British allowed it. JRD Tata had a pilot certificate to fly aviation flights, so he was permitted in this way, the new era of Indian aviation started in our country before independence and Tata reached its heights, and by that time Tata Airlines had become one of the best airlines in the world.
JRD Tata himself used to travel and if there were any shortcomings, he would remove them. He was a pilot and Tata became the best airline of that time. But when the country got independence, the government wanted to take private things into its hands because just like the British East India Company had come as a private company, Nehru, who was the Prime Minister at that time, felt that we should take many things undertaking. In this series, he acquired and nationalised India, which was called nationalization. Nationalization happened in two phases and India first acquired 49% in 1947, when the country got independence, after that in 1953, 100% was acquired from the government. See, when the government buys something, it is called nationalization because the government does not have its own money, it is the nationโs money, is nationโs wealth. With this, the airline became Air India and it completely went into the hands of the government.
Now you know that after coming into the hands of the government, the officials started to dominate here and slowly and slowly Indiaโs bad days started and in 70 years, the condition of India became so bad that India used to incur a loss of 20 crores per day, the loss became 20 crores per day, the situation became so bad and India did not have money to keep these vehicles in the hangar, sorry, the airlines stay there for maintenance etc., it is called hangar, its charge has to be paid, India went into a lot of difficulties and the government saw that instead of bearing such a huge loss, it is better to bid for it and hand it over, so this was an opportunity for Tata to get back its lost property, Tata Airlines acquired it by bidding 18000 crores, Tata acquired the second fleet after 70 years of exile, the stubbornness that was shown by Tata, India was taken back by Ratan Tata. And India was returned to him along with the entire fleet.
India had to go through a long exile to come back and this was a very right decision of the government. Airlines are a premium sector. The government should try to get hold of the things that are essential for the middle class or the lower class. Only the private sector can handle the things that are in the premium category and deal with them well. In this way, the government took a good decision and took the burden off its shoulders. It was becoming so costly and it was handed over to Ratan Tata. Now as Tata Airlines and India have come into the hands of Tata, preparations are on to reform it again.
In this work, the biggest aircraft order in the history of aviation in the world is placed, of 470 aircraft. However, before this, American Airlines had ordered 450 aircraft at one go in 2011, but in 2030, 470 aircraft were ordered in 23 batches. This is a deal of about 80 to 100 billion dollars. In this deal, this deal is going to two companies all over the world. Two companies manufacture the most aircraft in the commercial sector; one is Boeing and the other is Buss. Out of these 470 aircraft, 220 aircraft have been ordered from Boeing and 2500 aircraft have been ordered from Airbus.
