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12 Apr 2021                    Introducing Combi-Mail, Aerophilately History By Frans J. van Beveren. Published in May 1997. Combi-Mail:                                                          Airmail with added postal marking showing special postal service treatment.
10 Apr 2021                    Air-India First Class passenger souvenir gift card.
10 Apr 2021                    Hindustan Aircraft new advertisement updated.
10 Apr 2021                    Publicity advertisement - Air-India International and Air-India updated.
08 Apr 2021                    In their new book 1971: The Beginning of India’s Cricketing Greatness, Boria Majumdar and Gautam                                                                      Bhattacharya celebrate an epochal shift in India’s evolution into a cricketing superpower. The link has an                                                              image of the victorious Indian team returning from the West Indes with an Air India Boeing 707 in the                                                                    background. By Boria Majumdar, New Delhi, April 5, 2021
08 Apr 2021                    1971 Ajit Wadekar led Indian cricket team to maiden Test series wins in West Indies and England in 1971 in                                                        his first two assignments as skipper. An Air-India in background of the photos mentioned in the article. by                                                          Hindustan Times, August 16, 2018 by Sanjjeev K Samyal.
08 Apr 2021                    18th June 1971. The Indian cricket team pictured upon arrival at Heathrow Airport prior to their tour of the                                                          U.K. in brand new Air-India aircraft with captain Ajit Wadekar. By gettyimages.
05 Apr 2021                     Reference Book - The Indian Corps on the Western Front by Simon Doherty and Tom Donovan.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India cargo manifest & AWBs cover.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India Timetable - 1st Jan 1996 to 31st March 1996.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India Staff College Note Book.
02 Apr 2021                     ​​Air-India Training Intervention manual - Making a difference to Make Air-India Different.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India Staff College - Air-India basic check-in cue card.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India Limited, Summer schedule 30 March 1997 to 25 October 1997.
02 Apr 2021                     Bringing People Together, Air-India Special Purpose Team - Training Schedule.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India baggage label ​
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India Lockheed Constellation L-749 VT-DAR Maratha Princess standing at Zurich Airport.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India Boeing 707 marketing brochure.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India passenger manifest cover
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India Cricket Team vintage travel case during 1964 Tour to Singapore and Fiji.
02 Apr 2021                     Air-India Plastic Gift Box "With My Salaams"
02 Apr 2021                     Gift & Souvenir - Air-India metal cigarette case.
01 Apr 2021                     Useful Links - Air-India B747  in the 1970s Air India could best be described as a country on wings and perhaps                                                 one of the most unique ways to fly. By Sam Chui, March 22, 2021.​
26 Mar 2021                    Reference Book - Indian Censorship Series - II by Manohar Lal.
24 Mar 2021                    NIC - Cigarette Pack specially packed for Air-India International by Benson and Hedges Super Virginia                                                                   Cigarette. Image Courtesy: Kai Friese.
13 Mar 2021                    ODYSSEY - END OF ORBIT 7, AI-51, AI-52, AI-53, AI-54, AI-55, AI-56, AI-57, AI-58 & AI-59
21 Feb 2021                     ​NIC - 1954 Air-India Super-Constellation VT-DGL Rani of Jhansi
​21 Feb 2021                     Air-India Boeing 707-337B aircraft arrival at Amsterdam in 1969.
27 Jan 2021                     OTW - Air-India Wall Calendar 1965 & 2000
26 Jan 2021                     ​​Naval Air Transport Service. Flight Schedule, South India and Ceylon, June 1945.
26 Jan 2021                     The Great Bombay Explosion. By John Ennis and Published by Duell in 1959.
26 Jan 2021                      ​First Report of the Commission of inquiry Bombay Explosions. Published by the Manager of Publication, Delhi.
26 Jan 2021                      ​Covers of the Royal Air Force. this is Field Publication RAF Airmail Baghdad Cairo etc, by John C.W. Field.
26 Jan 2021                      ​Indian Campaigns 1778-1914: A Chronology of the Military and Naval Affairs of India, published by Spink.
26 Jan 2021                       ​Diaries of W.T. van Sommeren and A.B. Thompson by D.N. Jatia and Published by Philatelic Congress of India.
26 Jan 2021                       Book on Air Mail Operation: Green Paper No.23 A
25 Jan 2021                       Book on ​Indian Air Mail Postage Rates until 1956. By Jeffrey Brown, India Study Circle for Philately. 
25 Jan 2021                       Books on Air- India - Women of Anglo-India: Tale and Memories & Curtain Call - Anglo Indian Reflections
25 Jan 2021                       Air Britain Register - India, Pakistan & Ceylon & World Aviation Register.
25 Jan 2021                        Air Transport in India by S.K. Irtiza Naqvi and Published by Kitab Mahal Allahabad & Bombay in 1948.
25 Jan 2021                        From the Air-India collection of contemporary Indian art season's greetings.
25 Jan 2021                        Air-India stationery
25 Jan 2021                        6 Air-India advertisement updated
16 Jan 2021                        ODYSSEY: AI-48, AI-49 & AI-50
10 Jan 2021                          Wartime reference book: Report on the progress of Civil Aviation 1939-1945.
10 Jan 2021                          Wartime reference book: World War Two Censor Marks. Second Edition by Nick Colley, Published in 2016​
10 Jan 2021                          ​Wartime reference book: Conspiracy of Silence - Japanese Prisoners of War in India 1942-1946, by T.R.                                                                Sareen, Published in 2010
10 Jan 2021                          Wartime reference book: A Catalogue of Indian Censorship 1914-1920, by Alan Baker & Charles Entwistle,                                                             Published in 1994.
10 Jan 2021                          Blog Post - ​Allan Tramontana - Recovery during the expedition to the crash site of Air-India flights on                                                                     Mont Blanc.
05 Jan 2021                          ODYSSEY AI : 31.12.2020 ​"End of Orbit 6"
05 Jan 2021                          ODYSSEY AI-47 : 04.01.2021 “WATAN KI SAIR”
04 Jan 2021                          On Board reading - An original sketch used for production of ‘This makes no sense!’.
03 Jan 2021                          Useful Links - This link provides a list of every delivery of a Boeing plane, going back to the late-1950's,                                                                 for every airline. ​
02 Jan 2021                          ODYSSEY AI-46 : 01.01.2021 “CRASH OF AN EMPEROR”
01 Jan 2021                          ODYSSEY AI-45 : 31.12.2020 ​“MILLENNIUM ANNOUNCEMENT” 
​30 Dec 2020                          ODYSSEY AI-44 & 44A: 29.12.2020 ​"Farewell My Friend"
​30 Dec 2020                           ODYSSEY AI-43: 27.12.2020 ​“ONE DAY”
30 Dec 2020                           ODYSSEY AI-42A: 25.12.2020 ​“MERI KURISUMASU ”
29 Dec 2020                          Useful Links - Vir Sanghvi’s take on the halcyon days of Air-India. How in-flight glamour was downgraded                                                             from business class to coach in what was at one time the finest airline in the world.
22 Dec 2020                          ODYSSEY AI-42: 22.12.2020 ​“MIDNIGHT ON THE MENAM”
15 Dec 2020                          ODYSSEY AI: 30.11.2020 ​"End of Orbit 5 
13 Dec 2020                          Useful Links - The GBPS has posted a superb reference set of English language versions of UPU                                                                             Conventions and Related Documents
13 Dec 2020                          Useful Links - Air-India Trivia: Aeroplane Garden, Juhu Tara road, Santacruz West.
07 Dec 2020                          ODYSSEY AI-41 : 05.12.2020 “ MY 700th FLIGHT AS AN I.F.S ”
03 Dec 2020                          ODYSSEY AI-40 : 03.12.2020  ​“ FLIGHT TO ETERNITY ”
01 Dec 2020                          Air-India Playing Card type 102-A and 102-B with Wellcome Gift Box.
01 Dec 2020                          OTW - Indian Airlines Embarkation Card.
01 Dec 2020                          OTW - Indian Airlines Bangalore to Agra Baggage Tag.
01 Dec 2020                          OTW - Air-India Timetable, October 1989, March 1991.
01 Dec 2020                          OTW - Air-India International Souvenir Green Ashtray
01 Dec 2020                         Two Air-India pilot badge updated 
01 Dec  2020                        Resources - ​List of First Flight of Tata Sons, Air-India, Indian Airlines and Other Airways by Ashok K. Kora.
01 Dec 2020                         9 Air-India Advertisement updated.
01 Dec 2020                         Useful Links - 1932-1982, 50 Years of Indian Civil Air Transport.
01 Dec 2020                         Useful Links - The Sky is the Limit. The Taj Group of Hotels salutes its spirited Chairman J.R.D. Tata
30 Nov 2020                         ODYSSEY AI-39 : 30.11.2020 ​“ AMCHI NEW DESTINATION ”
27 Nov 2020                         Shell Aeronautical Aviation vintage Map of Karachi Drigh Road & Calcutta Dum Dum.
26 Nov 2020                         Foreign Airlines details updated.
26 Nov 2020                         NIC - Travel Case Bags from Maria Piedade.
17 Nov 2020                        ODYSSEY AI-38 : 16.11.2020 ​“ TRIUMPH ”
15 Nov 2020                        ODYSSEY AI-36 : 14.11.2020 ​FLIGHT OF FANCY - 6 ” Children’s Day Special
12 Nov 2020                        ODYSSEY AI-35 : 11.11.2020 “ MY 400th  FLIGHT AS AN I.F.S.”
02 Nov 2020                        ODYSSEY AI-34 : 01.11.2020 “VIGILANCE AWARENESS WEEK"
 01 Nov 2020                       ODYSSEY AI: 31.10.2020 "ORBIT 4 ENDS - Likes and Comments"
28 Dec 2020                         Useful Links - www.simpleflying.com is the best source of up-to-date information on what’s happening in                                                            Indian Civil Aviation