Air India was a part of J.R.D”s vision for India. Being India’s first true business scion, Tata was a director at Tata Sons Limited; one of Asia’s largest industrial companies. In July of 1932, he created an aviation department at the company; and began the first un-subsidized (i.e.: no mail contract from the British) domestic air service in India after receiving a license for through flights between Madras (Chennai) and Karachi via Bombay (Mumbai) on October 15th, 1932.
Air India Flight attendant speaks to a Sikh passenger on board the flight .Life 1946
1973 Air India Ad that read ” Next time you fly 747 to New York, be unfaithful.” Intentionally misleading you to think otherwise this became an instant hit with the masses.
Monica Fernandez
Peggy Anderson
June Argent
The Sari becomes the official dress code for Air India
“Memories of dark-haired beauties,” is what a traveller brings back from India, in an advertisement published in 1970.
“Long after you leave India, India will still be with you,” the tag line reads. Guess who the model is? -Zeenat Aman
Air India flight attendant Monica Gilbert (L) collecting autograph of Publicity Dir. Qasi Isa after flight.
Paremeswar Godrej. Air-India’s early air hostesses set a cosmopolitan trend and brought social acceptance
for Indian women. Among the liaisons that caused a flutter in their Air-India days were Nilu Gaekwad, Sunita
Garware, Parmeshwar Godrej, Nina Pillai and Maureen Wadia.
Stewardess Avenell Divers says goodbye to an ascetic after flying on Air India.
Vidal giving Air India hostess Ruby Bharucha a few hints on grooming hair at 40,000 feet, en route
from London to New York in 1965
J. Walter Thompson Agency Bombay ad for Air India. M. Gobhai Illustrator
Undated picture of an air hostess welcoming a passenger alighting from a Tata Airlines airplane.
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