History of Air Cargo in India

In 1911, the first aeroplane post services were started between the two cities Allahabad and Naini, the two cities of India. In 1932, freighter operations were started by Air India with Douglas DC-3 aircraft. By which Air India became the first airline in Asia to operate freighters.

Nationalizations of all airlines companies was happened in 1953 and they were put under two companies Air India and Indian Airlines.

Headquarters Of Airlines

 Headquarters of Indian Airlines corporation were established in New Delhi, where the company plans to provide air services within the whole country. Services were also provided to the neighboring countries like Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Myanmar and Maldives. Air India also provides services to the other foreign countries.

Between 1980s and 1990s the company added Boeing 747 and Douglas DC-8 freighter aircraft on several international routes with the help of other airline companies. In 1981, domestic flights were launched by the corporation ' Vayudoot' which covers the regions where Indian Airlines could not reach. Afterwards, this was merged with Indian Airlines.

Air Cargo Services

  In 2006,  after the merger of Indian Airlines and its domestic subsidiary Alliance Air with Air India, the freighter services were relaunched. This relaunch was happened by a single Boeing 737-200C aircraft from Indian Airlines and ten passenger aircraft out of which  five were converted into freighters. These all six air crafts were used for domestic routes for Air India Cargo Services.

 Four AirbusA310 were also converted by Air India from passenger aircraft's to freight aircraft's.

November 2007, GATI use 737s for freighter services and it became partner with Air India. But in 2012, due to high competition from the local  cargo airlines and financial issues, the company was forced to end its cargo operations. Air India provided  cargo services to various cities of its country until January 2012.