List of defunct airlines of India

This is a list of defunct airlines of India.

Airline	Image	IATA	ICAO	Callsign	Commenced operations	Ceased operations	Notes
Air Asiatic					1990	1991
Air Carnival		2S	ACV	CARNAIR	2016	2017
Air Costa		LB	LEP	LECOSTA	2013	2017
Air Dravida					2004	2008
Air India Cargo		AI	AIC	AIRINDIA	1932	2012
Air India Regional		CD;9I	LLR	ALLIED	2007	2017	Called Alliance Air from 1996 to 2007 then renamed back to Alliance Air in 2017.
Air Mantra		M1		MANTRA	2012	2013
Air Odisha		6X		ODISHA	2011	2019
Air Pegasus		OP	PPL	PEGASUS	2007	2016
Air Sahara		S2	RSH		2000	2007	Merged into Jet Lite, later merged into Jet Airways.
Air Services of India					1946	1953
AirAsia India		I5	IAD	RED KNIGHT	2014	2022	Acquired by Tata Group, renamed to AIX Connect.
Airways (India) [1]					1945	1955
AIX Connect		I5	IAD	RED KNIGHT	2022	2024	Merged into Air India Express
Ambica Airlines					1947	1949
Archana Airways [2]		F5	ACY	ARCHANA	1991	1999
Aryan Cargo Express		YE	ACQ	ACE CARGO	2005	2010	Stored in Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai
Chhattisgarh Air Link					2012	2019
CityLink Airways		XF			1992	1993
Cosmos Airways		K6			1994	1997	B.747F-Some wet-leased from Cargolux when needed.
Crescent Air Cargo		C8	CAC		2000	2006
Damania Airways [3]		D2	DMQ		1993	1997	Renamed/merged to Skyline NEPC
Darbhanga Aviation					1950	1962
Deccan 360 [4]		3C	DEC	DECCAN CARGO	2009	2011
Deccan Airways [1]					1945	1953
Dove Airlines					2007	2015
East-West Airlines		W2	EWT		1992	1995
Easy Air					2015	2015	Owned by Premier Airways
Elbee Airlines			LBE		1994	1998
Goa Way Aviation					1992	1993
Gujarat Airways [5]		G8	GUJ	GUJARATI	1995	2001
GoAir		G8	GOW	GOAIR	2005	2021	Renamed to Go First
Go First		G8	GOW	GOAIR	2021	2023	Liquidated
Handley Page Indo-Burmese Transport [6]							First airline in present-day India, operated in the early 1920s
Himalayan Air Transport & Survey [7]					1934	1935
Himalayan Aviation					1948	1953	Renamed to Indian Airlines
Hinduja Cargo Services		LF	LCI		1996	2000
Huns Air					1974	1980
Indian		IC	IAC	INDAIR	2007	2011	Merged into Air India
Indian Airlines		IC	IAC	INDAIR	1953	2007	Renamed to Indian
Indian National Airways					1925	1945
Indian Overseas Airlines					1947	1950
Indian State Air Service					1929	1931
Indian Transcontinental Airlines					1933	1948
Indus Air		O9	ACY		2006	2007
Irrawaddy Flotilla & Airways [8]					1934	1939	Its fall was triggered by the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942 [9] [10]
Jagson Airlines			JGN	JAGSON	2005	2010
Jamair					1946	1977
Jet Airways		9W	JAI	JET AIRWAYS	1993	2019	Liquidated
Jet Konnect		S2	JLL		2009	2014	Merged into Jet Airways, Liquidated
JetLite		S2	RSH/JLL		2007	2012	Renamed/merged with Jet Konnect
Jupiter Airways [11]					1948	1953
Kairali Airlines					2013	2017
Kalinga Airlines					1946	1965
Kingfisher Airlines		IT	KFR	KINGFISHER	2003	2012	Liquidated
Kingfisher Red		DN	DKN		2008	2012
MDLR Airlines		9H	MDL	MDLR	2007	2009	Was sold to Emirates in 2010 [9]
Mistri Airways					1946	1947	Renamed Indian Overseas Airlines
ModiLuft		HT, M9	MOD	MODILUFT	1994	1996	Was converted into SpiceJet by Ajay Singh [9]
NEPC Airlines		D5	NEP		1993	1997
Orient Airways					1946	1955	Became Pakistan International Airlines after transfer from Kolkata, India to Karachi, Pakistan
Paramount Airways		I7	PMW	PARAWAY	2005	2010
Pushpaka Airlines					1979	1983
RajAir					1993	1994
Safari Airways					1971	1977
Sahara Airlines		S2	RSH		1993	2000	Renamed to Air Sahara
Simplifly Deccan		DN	DKN	DECCAN	2007	2008	Merged into Kingfisher Airlines
Supreme Airlines					2016	2018
Transportes Aéreos da Índia Portuguesa					1955	1961	Operated from Portuguese India
TruJet		2T	TRJ	TRUJET	2015	2022	Ceased all operations in February 2022
UP Air					1995 [12]	1998 [13]
Vayudoot		PF	VDT	VAYU	1981	1997
VIF Airways		V2	VIF		1995 [14]	1996	Based at Begumpet airport, Hyderabad, operated 30-seat Dornier 328-110 aircraft.
Vijay Airlines					1981	1997
Vistara		UK	VTI	VISTARA	2013	2024	Merged into Air India

See also

• List of airlines of India

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