 "Air India")
* 1932 – J R D Tata pilots Karachi-Mumbai flight carrying mail, the first such mail service by an Indian company
* 1946 – Tata Airlines became a public company and renamed Air India.
* 1948 - Air India operates Bombay-London flight using Lockheed Constellation aircraft
* 1952 – Planning Commission recommends merger and nationalization of private airlines
* 1953 – Nine private airlines merged into two – Air India and Indian Airlines. The government agreed to Tata’s demand to keep separate entities for domestic and international operations and appointed him chairman of Air India.
* 1960- Air India receives
