These airlines closed before Jet Airways.
Jet Airways, which was the largest private airline in the country, will now go down in history. It has been closed for a long time and all efforts to restart it have failed. In such a situation, on Thursday the country’s most important court also ordered the liquidation of this company, that is, the sale of its assets, the payment of its debts and its liquidation. But do you know that Jet Airways is not the only airline that had to close down in the country? Even before, 10 airlines had to face this day.
Recently, low-cost airline GoFirst also filed for bankruptcy. These airlines are also counting their last breaths. Earlier, Kingfisher Airlines of industrialist Vijay Mallya, who fled India, was also closed, and currently SpiceJet is also facing a crisis. So what other airlines have closed before?
Names range from ‘Vayudoot’ to ‘Sahara’
In the year 1981, the regional airline ‘Vayudoot’ was started in the country. It was jointly started by Air India and Indian Airlines, which were operating in the country at the time. It used to serve the northeastern parts of the country, but this airline closed in 1997.
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After this, when the liberalization period began in the country, Sahara India Parivar started passenger and cargo air services as ‘Sahara Airlines’. It was started in the year 1993. Then in the year 2000, it was renamed and launched again with the name Air Sahara. It was then one of the largest airlines in the country.
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But in 2006 it started to die and in 2007 Sahara Group sold it to Jet Airways. Today Jet Airways itself will be closed, whose flights have been closed since 2019.
East-West was the country’s first private airline.
Before Sahara Airlines, the country’s first private airline, East-West, was founded in 1992. At first it only operated private charter aircraft, but in 1994 it acquired the status of a regular airline. A year later, in 1995, the company’s president, Taqiuddin Wahid, was shot dead and the company closed within a year due to huge debts.
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The SpiceJet mentioned earlier in the news is actually not the original company. In fact, its name was previously ModiLuft, with the purchase of whose assets SpiceJet started in 2004. It was developed by the German airline Lufthansa and the great Indian industrialist S. De. Modi started it in 1993. This airline closed in just 3 years, that is, in 1996.
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These airlines also closed in the country.
Apart from this, many other airlines in the country have remained closed until now. These include the name Damania Airlines, founded in 1993 by brothers Parvez Damania and Vispi Damania, which was closed in 1997. Vijay Mallya’s Kingfisher Airlines operations were closed in 2012.
Many years ago, there was a regional airline in the country called Pegasus, which started in 2015 and closed in 2016 after only one year of operation. Another regional airline was Archana Airways, which was based in Delhi from 1993 to 2000 and served nearby routes. At the same time, between 2005 and 2010, a Paramount Airways also operated in the country.
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Now the names of ‘Vistara’ and ‘AirAsia India’ can also be included in this list, because after Tata Group bought Air India, Vistara merged with it and AirAsia India merged with Air India Express.
