The state owned domestic airline Indian Airlines is based at New Delhi. The airlines caters to the need of both domestic and international passengers which started its operation in the year 1953. On December 7, 2005, Indian Airlines was rechristened as Indian. To render quality service, reliability and efficiency is the motto of Indian Airlines. This is how Indian Airlines mitigates the growing requirements of both budget and lavish travelers. The airlines offers the services on booking online, which is called e ticketing thus making air travel and act with comfort and convenience.

Indian Airlines fleet constitutes 70 aircrafts (3 wide-bodied airbus A300s, 47 fly-by-wire airbus A320s, 3 Airbus A319s, 11 Boeing 737s, 2 Dernier Do-228 aircraft and 4 ATR-42). However, the airlines also put an order of 46 aircrafts of A319, A320 and A 321s.

runs routine services to over 76 destinations including 18 abroad and 58 in its domestic land. All the significant cities of India including Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhubaneswar, Allahabad, Gorakhpur, Ranchi, Pune, Goa, Lucknow etc. Besides, the airlines also cover key sectors like New Delhi-Bangalore-New Delhi, Mumbai-Bangalore-Mumbai, New Delhi-Mumbai-New Delhi, Bangalore-New Delhi-Bangalore, Mumbai-Goa-Mumbai and Delhi-Goa-Delhi.

However, Indian airlines also carries passengers to many international destinations.