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Air India Online Booking
Air India is an oldest and Flag bearer airline of India, it was founded way back in 1932 by JRD Tata and in early days it was known as Tata airlines and later on the name of Tata airlines was changed to Air India on 29 Jul 1946. On 8 Mar 1948 Air India started its international flights with first flight from Mumbai to London. The vast network of Air India connects 49 domestic and 26 international destinations across 19 countries on the globe. The present fleet of Air India consists of 103 planes and another 30 are awaiting delivery. Air India is world’s largest operator of Airbus A310-300 and Slogan of Air India is ‘Your Palace in the Sky’. Since it became operational Air India have number of prestigious awards and some of them are:
- Best International West Bound Airline operating from India.
- Best corporate social responsibility initiative airline.
- Most preferred International Airline for travel and hospitality.
- Best short haul international airline.
- Mercury award in the year 1994 and 2003.
- Readers Digest most trusted Brand Award.
- Best South Asian Airline
- Best Cargo Airline of the year
- Air India entered the Guinness Book of World Records for evacuating 111,000 people from the Gulf War in the year 1990, 488 flights operated for 59 days to evacuate large number of people from Amman, Kuwait & Iraq
Offers
Air India has recently launched ‘Companion Free offer’ and this scheme is valid for all the outbound travels upto 31 Mar 12. Some of the features of this scheme are :
- Valid for all the outbound flights from India only to USA, UK, Europe and Canada.
- Valid for First and Executive Class only.
- All the taxes and surcharges are payable for the companion.
- Return travel must be completed within 1 year of departure flight.
There are some other regular concessional fares which are offered to particular category of traveler there discounts are :
- 50% discount on basic fare to senior citizens (above 63 years), all applicable taxes are payable.
- 50% discount to students in economy class in all domestic sectors.
- 75% discount to all the recipients of Gallantry award winners.
- 50% discount to Armed forces personnel.
- 50% discount to all the Arjuna Awardees.
- 25% discount to all the sports persons participating in National Sports Events.
Booking of Air Ticket
Booking of air ticket for traveling in Air India is as convenient as for other leading airlines of the world. Being the biggest airline of India in the same all queries relating to travel in Air India can addressed on line or even on toll free numbers. You can book your air ticket by just logging in to Air India website and once you have provided your travel details like, destination, date of travel, class of travel and number of travelers, you will get the details of all the flights available alongwith fare for that particular date. You can choose your flight and complete your bookings, you can easily pay your ticket about by using credit card. But it is always advisable to check all the deals and offers before booking your ticket otherwise you may be paying more for your ticket.
You can also book your ticket over a phone call on toll free number of Air India or visiting nearest Air India ticketing counter. Some of the important telephone numbers of Air India are:
- Online booking (10 AM to 5PM) – 011-24624074
- Email – eCommernce@airindia.in
- Frequent Flyer – 1800 180 1407
Check-in and Flight Status
Like ticketing web check-in and flight status check is also very user friendly and can be done even from home, office, café shop, cyber café or even over a phone. Web You just need to provide your flight details like, PNR No and traveler name, once these details are verified you can complete your check-in and also take print out of your boarding pass so that you are not kept waiting in long queue at the airport before your flight. |
