Himalayan Aviation

Himalayan Aviation
हिमालयन एविएशन
Founded 1948
Ceased operations 1953 (merged into Indian Airlines)
Headquarters India Calcutta, India

Himalayan Aviation (Hindi: हिमालयन एविएशन) was an airline based in India that operated in the northern parts of the Indian subcontinent until its nationalization and merger into Indian Airlines in 1953.

Incidents

  • On 20 February 1950, Himalayan Aviation ran the first ever international flight from Nepal, from Gauchar (Nepal) to Calcutta (now Kolkata) (India).[1]
  • On 7 December 1951, Pakistan detained a Himalayan Aviation flight from Ahmedabad, India, to Kabul, Afghanistan, at the stopover point in Karachi. Pakistan had previously denied use of the direct Delhi-Kabul air-corridor that overflew the North West Frontier Province. India and Pakistan had worked out an alternative Ahmadabad-Karachi-Zahedan(Iran)-Kabul route.[2]

Services

Himalayan Aviation began with chartered flights.[3] Over time, it expanded to night-mail services and scheduled passenger flights. In order to maximize revenue, it began taking on passengers on its night-mail flights as well.[4]

Fleet

The fleet mostly consisted of Douglas DC-3 aircraft.

References

  1. ↑ COVER STORY (Spotlight Weekly), 14th Dec. 2001
  2. ↑ "Miscellaneous : dated 7 December 1951: Pak. halts Indian plane to Kabul". The Hindu. 7 December 2001. Retrieved 26 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Roy R. Roadcap (1992). World Airline Record. Roy R. Roadcap & Associates.
  4. ↑ Kalka Prasad Bhatnagar (1951). Transport in Modern India. Kishore Publishing House, Kanpur.
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