Airliners-India.com Flickr Group & Facebook    FAQ   Search   Memberlist   Usergroups   Register   Profile   Log in to check your private messages   Log in  AIR INDIAN is here... Goto page 1, 2  Next          Airliners-India.com Forum Index -> Civil Aviation View previous topic :: View next topic   Author Message tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:22 am    Post subject: AIR INDIAN is here... Thanks for bearing with the government... Your months long wait has finally been fruitful...Now I proudly present before you the new merged entity...AIR INDIAN... More information here... http://www.rediff.com/money/2007/mar/29airindian.htm Regards tSk _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top BigTom Member Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 271 Location: Dubai, UAE Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:52 am    Post subject: Air Indian ..... how original! Now why didn't we all think of that? Back to top tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:13 am    Post subject: BigTom wrote: Air Indian ..... how original! Now why didn't we all think of that? The 787 gave it a thought... but he didn't like... I read in his post in some other thread... What will be the STUPID name if we merge DTC and BEST... D-BEST!!! I can't understand why to have such not so good sounding names? _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top Megatop Member Joined: 14 Feb 2007 Posts: 257 Location: Bangalore Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:19 am    Post subject: What a Face-off ! This tops the list of India's major embarrasments. Back to top karatecatman Guest Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:43 am    Post subject: Sheeshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Back to top haree Member Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 429 Location: Somewhere on the globe Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:57 am    Post subject: Lets be glad they didnt come up with Air Indian Airlines Air Indian Alliance Express Air Pawan Express Indian Maha Bharat Airways Indian National Airlines Back to top karatecatman Guest Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:10 pm    Post subject: Rhymes with Sri Lankan and Ethiopian!!! Back to top deaphen Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 933 Location: India Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:43 pm    Post subject: oh man!!!! Air Indian!!! come on!!! I dont get it, you have a new LR, painte in AIR INDIA colours and u rename it Air Indian... see thats why i feel its totaly lack of coordination. They will waste money changing their liveries on all their new planes changing the name. lol nitin Back to top karatecatman Guest Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:50 pm    Post subject: An RTI/PIL is due here. Explanation needed for the countless attempts at tampering with identity especially after large media ads worth lakhs are released to justify it. Back to top BigTom Member Joined: 21 Mar 2007 Posts: 271 Location: Dubai, UAE Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:52 pm    Post subject: Going by the reasoning behind the new name I wonder if the new livery will also be a combination of AI and IC's new ones. Maybe they will throw in AIX and Alliance Air's liveries too. Should be interesting to watch, red, white, orange, blue and white all on one aircraft. Will certainly stand out. Cheers Back to top Birendra Member Joined: 15 Feb 2007 Posts: 1411 Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:07 pm    Post subject: is this what we have read since childhood......unity in diversity Back to top karatecatman Guest Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:17 pm    Post subject: Looks like the Maharajah may win. Imagine if it was the Ashoka Chakra. Terrrible conflict between the Centaur and the Lions! Sarkari symbol in opposition with an airline symbol of JRD golden days. Back to top the_380 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 2329 Location: Mumbai, India Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:21 pm    Post subject: How unfair...i had suggested Air Indian so that both the airline names are retained then deaphen and others said they didn't like it _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld A Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox Audio Producer!!! Back to top karatecatman Guest Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:24 pm    Post subject: Will there be enough space on the tail for "N"? Might be a tight squeeze --- even with a decal. Back to top tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:09 pm    Post subject: Our beloved ministers need to take our advice before executing their stupidities.... MERA BHARAT MAHAN, Ministers hain Nakaam... _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top adhithya Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 23 Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:27 pm    Post subject: So how would one say if he was travelling by AI in the future.....i am flying Air Indian or book me in Air Indian....sounds funny.....Air india or Indian was much better.... Back to top the_380 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 2329 Location: Mumbai, India Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 3:44 pm    Post subject: adhithya wrote: So how would one say if he was travelling by AI in the future.....i am flying Air Indian or book me in Air Indian....sounds funny.....Air india or Indian was much better.... Well i guess its just a matter of time...we'll get used to it...atleast Air Indian is not that bad...imagine if they'd keep something like Indian Airways or Bharat Airways They would not have kept it as Indian or Air India at any cost _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld A Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox Audio Producer!!! Back to top HamiltonAir Member Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 937 Location: Bangalore Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:39 pm    Post subject: the_380 wrote: adhithya wrote: So how would one say if he was travelling by AI in the future.....i am flying Air Indian or book me in Air Indian....sounds funny.....Air india or Indian was much better.... Well i guess its just a matter of time...we'll get used to it...atleast Air Indian is not that bad...imagine if they'd keep something like Indian Airways or Bharat Airways They would not have kept it as Indian or Air India at any cost Or Hindustan Airways _________________ HamiltonAir Back to top AKLDELNonstop Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 1066 Location: Auckland Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:50 pm    Post subject: My already melancholic mood for the day has been maed even worse owing to yet another act of brilliance by those at the helm of the world's largest democracy. Cheers _________________ Geniuses are always misunderstood in their lifetimes. Back to top vivekman Member Joined: 26 Dec 2006 Posts: 1897 Location: BOM Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:26 pm    Post subject: I would just end up saying - I am flying Air India, and omit the "n" at the end on purpose Everyone would get the message I am sure.... adhithya wrote: So how would one say if he was travelling by AI in the future.....i am flying Air Indian or book me in Air Indian....sounds funny.....Air india or Indian was much better.... Back to top tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:42 pm    Post subject: Tomorrow if a new one comes into PP's family he would be called PrafuliAN JR. Into the PM's family ManmohiAN JR... Into Chidambram's family P. TAXandramiAN.......into Laloo's family(the 10th) Rajdhani Prasad ShatabdiAN....... I am changing my name to TanveeriAN....... From now on, I will call this forum as Airliners-IndiAN........ Assem, please arrange for the new domain as www.airliners-indiAN.net... _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top XBValk Member Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 124 Location: NYC/COK Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 8:43 pm    Post subject: How Nice... Air Indian? Was Air Indiagi taken already? Why couldn’t they just keep the brands the same except the new merged company will be called Air Indian LLC or something? Back to top tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:37 pm    Post subject: XBValk wrote: Why couldn’t they just keep the brands the same except the new merged company will be called Air Indian LLC or something? Hey LLC concept doesn't exists in India. We don't have Limited Liability Company over here as far as I know... JAI AIR INDIANgiri... _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top karatecatman Guest Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:39 pm    Post subject: CNN-IBN gives its take on the new Air Indian logo!!! And says Indian's planes have to be repainted all over again!!!!!!!!! http://www.ibnlive.com/news/air-indiaindian-set-for-new-look/37252-7.html CNN hasn;t done its homework. Uses the old Centaur!!! Back to top tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 11:47 pm    Post subject: How can we expect a reputed media organization to make such a mistake of using the old centaur... I think they have been quite a lot into reading AI's inflight magazines... So when is the 772ER(...oOps LR) expected to arrive?... _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top the_380 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 2329 Location: Mumbai, India Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:16 am    Post subject: Lol tsk seems ur obssesed with the "-IAN" hehe kidding... he even called me Avijeet-iAN btw frankly speaking its not that bad... atleast the GoI can't rename the entire airline as Air India or Indian because that would mean ignoring the other airline which im sure even the GoI wouldn't like ... so the best is with a bit of maths, Air India + Indian = AIR INDIAN and also the idea of retaining the IATA code AI seems like a very good idea because atleast it has the initials AI like in cases of Air Canada, British Airways, etc Jst my 2C _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld A Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox Audio Producer!!! Back to top Jaysit Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 4346 Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:37 am    Post subject: This name is so bad, its good. Its the Sanjaya factor at play. Go beyond the norms of utter and total exquisite rotten-ness, that your badness makes you good. I think that this beyond the pale rotten-ness in coming up with an airline name should start a trend. Air French (or Air Francais) Air Canadian Air New Zealander PIA should also become Air Pakistani in a show of cross-border friendship. That way Indians and Pakistanis can both be exquisitely rotten in their airline names as they are in playing cricket. Back to top XBValk Member Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 124 Location: NYC/COK Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 1:50 am    Post subject: Jaysit wrote: PIA should also become Air Pakistani in a show of cross-border friendship. That way Indians and Pakistanis can both be exquisitely rotten in their airline names as they are in playing cricket. Naaa Paki Air is a better name... Back to top sri_bom Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 2365 Location: Singapore Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 9:11 am    Post subject: I hope they wait before they pain all the aircarfts as I heard that some babus in New Delhi are now hell bent on renaming the country..... So most likely India to be renamed as Bharat Of course some of the party members what it renamed as Hindustan So then we are all back to the drawing board with a new name: Bhartusan Airways Sri_Bom Back to top sri_bom Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 2365 Location: Singapore Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:29 am    Post subject: the_380 wrote: Lol tsk seems ur obssesed with the "-IAN" hehe kidding... he even called me Avijeet-iAN btw frankly speaking its not that bad... atleast the GoI can't rename the entire airline as Air India or Indian because that would mean ignoring the other airline which im sure even the GoI wouldn't like ... so the best is with a bit of maths, Air India + Indian = AIR INDIAN and also the idea of retaining the IATA code AI seems like a very good idea because atleast it has the initials AI like in cases of Air Canada, British Airways, etc Jst my 2C Airline Code should not matter as all Airline code will be 3 digits shorlty. The current 3 digit code assigned for Air India is - AIC Indian Airlines (Indian) is - IAC So it will be intersting to see the which of the above IATA 3 letter code is retained.... SRI_BOM Back to top tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:17 pm    Post subject: I personally prefer AIC... Sounds sensible with Air Indian... Wasn't it foolish for both AI and IC to introduce new liveries even though everyone was aware of the merger... It's not an inexpensive proposition... They waste money in such foolish things and then cry for incurring losses... POOR FOOLS and their head POOR PRAFOOOOL!! _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top haree Member Joined: 13 Feb 2007 Posts: 429 Location: Somewhere on the globe Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 6:25 pm    Post subject: Maybe it was a part of the Cost cutting merger plan.. We only need to paint up a N after the name and Air on IC's aircrafts letterheads etc etc Back to top tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:22 pm    Post subject: haree wrote: Maybe it was a part of the Cost cutting merger plan.. We only need to paint up a N after the name and Air on IC's aircrafts letterheads etc etc Something of this sort: AI's new VT-ALA with an added N... IC's new branding: IC's old a/c with Air Indian effect...sorry guys the same on new livery(adding AIR) isn't my cup of tea... NOTE: All these pics have been taken from Flickr group... n Sorry for not changing the Hindi titles in AI's VT-ALA... Wasn't able to write in Hindi... _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top the_380 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 2329 Location: Mumbai, India Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 12:31 am    Post subject: ROFL! Too good tsk The livery looks good and so does the name "Prafool" _________________ http://www.myspace.com/avsatsworld A Walt Disney and 20th Century Fox Audio Producer!!! Back to top XBValk Member Joined: 27 Jan 2007 Posts: 124 Location: NYC/COK Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:52 am    Post subject: Will they have a new song called, I love my Indian? Back to top Aseem Member Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 2841 Location: YYZ Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:56 am    Post subject: what will be the LCC called?? Indian Express _________________ [url=http://openflights.org/user/aseemsjohri] [/url] Back to top sammyk Member Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 2719 Location: Austin, TX Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 5:28 am    Post subject: Probably Alliance Indian Express! Back to top karatecatman Guest Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 11:37 am    Post subject: It may still be AIR INDIA There now seems to be a rethink on Air IndiaN. This is because Air India is the more recognisable of the two entities and the GoI wants to go back to the glory of the JRD days. The new logo may again be a blend of the Centaur and the IA wheel. The Maharajah stays. & Also see this story: http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/2007/03/31/stories/2007033100840700.htm Sources told Business Line that the thinking about the name was based on the fact that Air India was a globally established brand name that has stood the test of time. Air India has just entered its platinum jubilee year, having been established by J.R.D. Tata as Tata Airline. Back to top tsk911 Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 223 Location: DEL Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 2:50 pm    Post subject: It's good news that a rethinking on the new name has started... Shoooo!!! Air Indian Shooo!!! _________________ Nalini... The Princess of the Sky... You are a star which will continue to illuminate your own A.net-India forever... Back to top HAWK21M Member Joined: 19 Dec 2006 Posts: 8132 Location: Mumbai, INDIA Posted: Sat Mar 31, 2007 3:09 pm    Post subject: I hope they stick with Air India. regds MEL _________________ Think of the Brighter side !!! 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