Air-India Picture Gallery
Photo print of the letter written by Pt. Jawahar Lal Nehru to the General Manager of Air-India after returning from Bandung Conference on 27th April 1955. This photo print was sent to all the crew members of Air-India who operated the flight to Bandung Conference and back to India.
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The P.M. Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, arriving at London Airport by an Air-India International plane and being received by Mr. Noel Baker & Mr. Krishna Menon.
Ms. Vijayalaxmi Pandit about to enter an Air-India Aircraft
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9th May 1948
News paper article on First Asian Airline to Europe by Air-India International from Bombay to London via Cairo and Geneva.
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Image Courtesy: Capt. Bhunsha
Image Courtesy: Capt. Bhunsha
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Bombay, 19th July, 1930. (From Left to Right)
Frederick - Rolls-Royle Demonstration Driver, Mr. Fist, Mr.Eastley - Chairman of Bombay Flying Club, Mrs.F.D.Petti - India's First Lady Pilot, Ms. Tata - her sister also a pilot, Ms. Amy Johnson and Mr.Haseler, - Sec. of The Bombay Flying Club.
(Image Courtesy: Adi Jahangir)
Bombay, 19th July, 1930. (From Left to Right)
Frederick - Rolls-Royle Demonstration Driver, Mr. Fist, Mr.Eastley - Chairman of Bombay Flying Club, Mrs.F.D.Petti - India's First Lady Pilot, Ms. Tata - her sister also a pilot, Ms. Amy Johnson and Mr.Haseler, - Sec. of The Bombay Flying Club.
(Image Courtesy: Adi Jahangir)
Capt. Keki Gazdar Air-India
(ex-John Stroud Collection)
(ex-John Stroud Collection)
Pat O'Neal, Air-India International
Pat O'Neal, Air-India International
London, 24th March, 1954.
Miss Dorothy Coelho, attractive Air-India hostess, who flies across the world as regularly as clockwork.
Yearly she spends some 5,000 hours in the air and has been flying for 5 years.
Photographed at London Airport.
(ex-John Stroud Collection)
Miss Dorothy Coelho, attractive Air-India hostess, who flies across the world as regularly as clockwork.
Yearly she spends some 5,000 hours in the air and has been flying for 5 years.
Photographed at London Airport.
(ex-John Stroud Collection)
Air-India International reservation office at 7, Rue de Chantepoulet in Geneva. (c.mid-late 1955)
The mural is by M. F. Hussain, one of the greatest contemporary artists in the world
The mural is by M. F. Hussain, one of the greatest contemporary artists in the world
Image dated c. 1955 Begum Jahanara of Palanpur, née Joan Falkiner from Australia, who married the Muslim ruler H.H. Taley Muhammed Khan, the Nawab of Palanpur, in 1939, and lived with him in Gujarat throughout the period leading to Indian Independence.
Air-India Lautoka Fiji, Airport
Air-India reception Probably at Taj Mahal Hotel Bombay?
Sheela 'Charu' Gupte (nee Tipnis) an artist, who worked in the Air-India Art Studio during the 1970s
Charu retired as the AGM, Advertising and Special Promotions, Air-India. She has many more photographs of her stint in the Art Studio,
Roving Trophy of Air-India Art Studio with Maharajah as an Artist, Holding a paint brush & pallet. This trophy was given during c. 1960.
SARI-CLAD AIR HOSTESSES of Air-india greeted their colleague Glynne Evans with flowers at Heathrow Airport on her arrival from Cairo yesterday. She had flown 3 million miles since 1958.
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Foreign travel was a major event, and family and friends often would accompany the travellers to the airport and see them off. Here we have some surviving pictures from the 1960s. The Maharajah is visible in the background.
Air-India First Flight to Nairobi on 18th June 1986.
(Image Courtesy: Capt. Russi Bunsha )
(Image Courtesy: Capt. Russi Bunsha )
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Air-India Beirut office in the 1960s
Air-India Beirut office in the 1960s
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Enterance to the Air-India Interntion Office at Cairo in c.1950
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Here is a comment from Lorna’s daughter about the press photograph published in July 1976.
My Mum Lorna , was the one in the second row looking over the shoulder of one of the first Air India hostesses.
Aunty Lorna Bainbridge Sassoon is to her left.
Sadly, only two names were mentioned with this photo, Lorna Bainbridge and Monica Gilbert. Does anyone know any of these ladies?
Ray Salway Greenwell (Noble) was Air India’s first Chief Air Hostess, was personally chosen by Mr. J.R.D. Tata, and who was on the inaugural flight to London. She is pictured in the photo, seated, in front row.
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Air-India had built a concrete Boeing 707 in the airlines livery at a public park in Juhu, Bombay in the 1960s. It served as a popular tourist attraction and children loved to climb into the aeroplane and play around it.
Air-India had built a concrete Boeing 707 in the airlines livery at a public park in Juhu, Bombay in the 1960s. It served as a popular tourist attraction and children loved to climb into the aeroplane and play around it.
On 6 November, 1971 Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington returning the solute from those gathered to see her.
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Air-India air hostess from left to right.
Ms. Rita Roy, Mrs.Hemmady and Mrs. Joan Desai.
Air-India air hostess from left to right.
Ms. Rita Roy, Mrs.Hemmady and Mrs. Joan Desai.
Air-India pursers Dinshaw Bharucha & Khushroo Major with glasses
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Air-India Hostess, Anita from Switzerland, Purser Fyruz Daruwalla
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Air-India Pursers Jimmy Pajkaiwalla & Joe Rodrigues
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In centre, Glyn Ecans and Right, Sohrab Panthaki In-Flight Supervisor
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Homai Panthaki with Melvyn Lewis Purser
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Air-India Air hostess Barbara Burby 1956 joined Air with Honey and Homai
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Air-India Julie Dunne Chief Air Hotess and Homai Panthaki Assistant Chief for only two year.
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Air Hostess Pixie Married to purser Edekar.
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Air-India Staff College group photos from Mar 1990 Flight handling programme for officer
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An Air-India memory. SAS Australia 1998 award we won for best frequent flyer program Flying Returns which I had developed and launched in 1994. At a function at Taj Mumbai.
(Image Courtesy: Uttara Parekh)
(Image Courtesy: Uttara Parekh)
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2021 Air-India Christmas Greeting
2021 Air-India Christmas Greeting