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24 Sep 2021              Picture Gallery - Air-India First Flight to Nairobi on 18th June 1986. Image Courtesy: Capt. Russi Bunsha
22 Sep 2021              Air-India red colour sleeping mask with original plastic cover.
22 Sep 2021              Air-India souvenir porcelain cup celebrating the 60 years of flying colour's.   ​
22 Sep 2021              Air-India Playing Card - Series AIC 106-B with Original Box
22 Sep 2021              Air-India Glass Ashtray
22 Sep 2021              Maneck Dalal Gallery - Air-India Souvenir materials
17 Sep 2021              Air-India 1989 wall calendar - revised image updated.
17 Sep 2021              THANK YOU WORLD is a song composed by Gary Lawyer for Air-India years ago on the occasion of JRD Tata’s                                                 birthday celebrations held at the Taj ballroom. The visuals are not from the original film that went with the song                                                 but something he put together later. 
16 Sep 2021              Air-India Wall calendar 1992.
30 Aug 2021               Air-India notepad during the Boeing day to the U.S.A. and daily to the East.
25 Aug 2021               Pre-1953 Airlines - Mistri Airways Limited.
19 Aug 2021               Air-India Maharajah pair of lapel pin
​19 Aug 2021               Air-India 1982 notepad.
17 Aug 2021               Indian Airlines ticket jacket dated 17 September 1973 & 26 May 1974
13 Aug 2021               Air-India souvenir WIN Gas Lighter with original gift box. (Provenance: Mr Maneck Dalal)
13 Aug 2021               Pins and Badges, Others - 4 Cuff-Links with gift box. (Provenance: Mr Maneck Dalal)
13 Aug 2021               Air-India Gift and Souvenir Misc. - leather memo writing pad, Glass tray with original box, Souvenir Estyma                                                          clock with original gift box, Air-India comb pocket wallet & Air-India Beach Towel with manufacturer label                                                            Bombay Dying for Boeing 747 (Provenance: Mr Maneck Dalal)
13 Aug 2021               Air-India Cargo - Beach Towel.
13 Aug 2021               Air-India Desk Diaries - 1982* & 1983* ​
13 Aug 2021               Publicity Material - Air-India International promotional material about happy days in Switzerland.
08 Aug 2021                Air-India Menu Card 1973 (3 Menu card) - "Lady Combing her hair.", "Saraswati, the Hindu Goddess of Learning"                                                 and "We, the Cowherds of Gokul". ​
08 Aug 2021               Useful links - Google doodle honours Sarla Thukral, first Indian woman to fly an aircraft.  By                                                                                      Hindustantimes.com, New Dehi 8th August 2021.
05 Aug 2021               ​Pseudo Artifacts - School exercise book. ​
02 Aug 2021               NIC - Air-India Cargo Topaz blade advertisement.
20 Jul 2021                 Useful Link - Do Postage stamps Expire? Answering All Questions About Postal Stamps. May 28, 2021                                                                by thestreats (Courtesy: Swaraj Nandedkar​)
28 Jul 2021                 Air-India other posters - The world drawn by Mario. Rendered by by Deepak.
28 Jul 2021                 Air-India 1970 Calendar - January page updated.
21 Jul 2021                 NIC Air-India Maharajah by Plywin Industries (Pr.) Ltd. - Image Courtesy: Simon Wright.
17 Jul 2021                 Air-India timetable: August-September 1965 & June-October 1980 ​
14 Jul 2021                 Sands of time. Tata Central Archives periodically brings out its in-house newsletter Sands of Time. VOL XVIII                                                      ISSUE 1, 2021, June 2021.
14 Jul 2021                 Flying on the wings of Air India nostalgia. A transportive collection of Air India artefacts lets you travel beyond                                                    place and time ​ By Jahnabee Borah, Mint Lounge, 25 June 2021.
14 Jul 2021                 Flight of fancy. If anyone doubts India’s glorious aero history, this aerophilatelist’s unique collectibles of Indian                                                    airmails and Air India memorabilia, can prove otherwise. By Jane Borges, Mid-Day Mumbai, 30 May 2021
14 Jul 2021                 Air-India Maharajah Lapel Pin
13 Jul 2021                 Indian Airlines Ticket Jacket 1st November 1968.
13 Jul 2021                 Air-India Calendar 2005.
13 Jul 2021                 News paper article on the First Asian Airline to Europe by the Air-India International from Bombay to London                                                      via Cairo and Geneva.
09 Jul 2021                 ​The Anglo-Boer War in 100 Objects by Published by War Museum of the Boer Republics in 2017.
08 Jul 2021                 Air-India Maharajah page - updated.
07 Jul 2021                 Blog Post - ODYSSEY - AI-80 and AI-End of Orbit 12.
07 Ju 2021                  Air-India Advertisements - Air-India - 'i will use my TALENT over-TIME for you!', 'My routes -firmly planted in five                                                     continents.' and 'My talent takes no time!'
​07 Jul 2021                 Air-India advertisements - Air-India International - Time on your hands?
07 Jul 2021                  Indian Airlines postcard - Taj Mahal, Rear View, Agra & Moti Masjid, Red Fort, Delhi.
07 Jul 2021                  Air-India Menu card - 1965, in Russian and French language and 1966, in Japanese language.
07 Jul 2021                  Air-India publicity material - Travel in style with Old Spice
07 Jul 2021                  Air-India money clip.
28 Jun 2021                 Blog Post - Making of the iconic Air-India Maharajah
25 Jun 2021                 Pseudo Artifacts - some material with an Air India connection that we believe may not have been authorised                                                      by the airline.
23 Jun 2021                 Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-78, 78A & 79 updated.
17 Jun 2021                 Air-India form to obtain an air-tickets for return to Mumbai on account of no funds to buy air ticket in                                                                   destination country. ​
17 Jun 2021                 Air-India fare construction worksheet.
17 Jun 2021                 Air-India Express Message form ​
17 Jun 2021                 Air-India General stationery envelope in orange and white colour.
17 Jun 2021                 Air-India Baggage Identification Tag
17 Jun 2021                 Air-India Economy Class Boarding Pass with Holy Festival theme design. ​
16 Jun 2021                 Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-75, 76 and 77 updated.
15 Jun 2021                 Making of the iconic Air-India Maharajah
14 Jun 2021                Celebrating 70 years of Air-India's services to London that commenced on 8th June 1948.                                                                                      (Video Courtesy: Mr. Debashis Golder for permission to post this video)
08 Jun 2021                Blog Post - ODYSSEY - AI-72A, AI-73 and AI-74
02 Jun 2021                Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-72: 31.05.2021 ​“Football Strategies for Corporate Goals”
31 May 2021               Air-India 1st November 1959 Timetable updated
27 May 2021               Air-India International Paper Hand Held Wooden Fan
27 May 2021               Air-India Bookmark - showing Maharajah dress up in different cultural style of world. ​
27 May 2021                Air-India Postcard - Air-India Boeing 707 Postcard, Picture taken at Paris Airport, France
27 May 2021                Air-India Postcard - Bombay 100 Years ago, 20 Picture Postcards with Compliments from Air-India.
24 May 2021                 Air-India Playing card updated.
23 May 2021                 Air-India Timetable March 1959 & May 1960 Updated.
22 May 2021                 Useful Links The Airgraph Letters (1941) were the primary and secure method to correspond with soldiers                                                           stationed abroad. 13th April 2014 by http://www.britishpathe.com/
22 May 2021                 Useful Links - The Airgraph  was an ingenious system of minimizing the resources necessary for the sending                                                     of hundreds of thousands of letters to and from England's soldiers overseas. 14th November                                                                                 2011 by https://www.repropaperwork.com/
21 May 2021                  Useful Link - Air-India features in Big Screen in Bollywood movie - Sangam (1964), Anari No.1, Dulhan Hum                                                            Le Jayenge, Kahin Pyar na ho Jaye, Kandahar & M.S. Dhoni - Untold Story.
21 May 2021                  Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-71: 21.05.2021 ​“COSCAP Training”
20 May 2021                  Useful Links - Air-India features in Big Screen - In Bollywood & Hollywood
18 May 2021                   Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-70: 15.05.2021 ​“PRACTICING PRODUCTIVE PRINCIPLES”
15 May 2021                   Useful Links section divided in sub-section as per subject.
14 May 2021                  Air-India Coaster Type 7 & Type Updated.
14 May 2021                  Air-India Postcard from Share transfer department to Air-India Limited dated 29 July 1949.
14 May 2021                   Tata Airlines general documents dated 6th May 1946.
12 May 2021                   Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-68A & ODYSSEY AI-69​
11 May 2021                   Great vintage footage of Air-India 747-237B interior cabin.
06 May 2021                   Air-India International Postal Meter panel Bombay G.P.O. dated 26 November 1950 
06 May 2021                   Air-India Pocket Diary 1974.
06 May 2021                   Air-India Economic Class Baggage Tag + Air-India label having Airway No. 098
06 May 2021                   Air-India scarf represent design an Apsara from a panel in cave 17th at Ajanta. A late 5th century fresco.
06 May 2021                   Air-India March 1965 timetable updated.
06 May 2021                   Air-India newspaper advertisement updated.
06 May 2021                   Air-India Postcard updated.
06 May 2021                   Air-India Cargo Wall clock.
06 May 2021                   Air-India International Ashtray in green colour & one square glass Ashtray Updated 
06 May 2021                   Air-India publicity article - The Queen of the Skies.
06 May 2021                   Air-India Boeing 737-300 Model Aircraft with original box.
06 May 2021                   Air-India Matchboxes & Matchbooks updated.
06 May 2021                   Air-India Pins & Badges - Some more pins and Piot badges updated.
06 May 2021                   Indian Airlines - Go Places Key Chain 1953-1978
05 May 2021                   Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-67, ODYSSEY-End of Orbit 10 and ODYSSEY AI-68
24 Apr 2021                    Air-India promotional material - Delhi information brochure and Air-India Route Map.
18 Apr 2021                    A is for AIRGRAPH - The Airgraph Service (17 April 1941 to 31 July 1945) by William M. Senkus                                                                             on https://alphabetilately.org/, 24th July 2020.
16 Apr 2021                    The Mahajarah's Book of Fairy Tales. Illustrated by Hilda Devos and Specially produced for Air-India by                                                                  Desclee De Brouwer, Brugge, Belgium in 1967.
16 Apr 2021                    Catalog of Postal Stationery Airgraphs - First Edition. by Wayne Menuz, FRPSL and Published by The United                                                        Postal Stationery Society (UPSS) in October 2020
16 Apr 2021                    Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-66 “Together Towards Tomorrow”
15 Apr 2021                    Maharajah Statue - two from Bandivadekar Compaper Crafts and two from Bapulal Ramchand & Co.
15 Apr 2021                    Useful Links - Air-India launches cricket themed onboard menu for World Cup.
15 Apr 2021                    Air-India wall calendar - 1988 updated.
14 Apr 2021                    Blog Post - ODYSSEY AI-65: 14.04.2021 “Cry From Above”
14 Apr 2021                    Air India was absolutely the best airline in the world. Says the Mumbai man whose Air India collection of                                                              memorabilia includes 70 scale models, over 200 postcards and 1,000 photographs of India’s national carrier. By                                                Raj Aditya Chaudhuri, May 07, 2020 by cntravller.in
13 Apr 2021                    Air-India timetable 1st June 1973 to 27th October 1973.
13 Apr 2021                    In-Fight entertainment Boeing 747 - Call of the Flute, Radha Krishna, Stained glass, Amber Palace, Jaipur.
13 Apr 2021                    Copyright on website has been updated.
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