{"id":17533,"date":"2022-02-07T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T09:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/?p=17533"},"modified":"2022-02-07T14:45:45","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T09:15:45","slug":"air-india-tata-group-reveals-how-airline-got-its-name-75-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/07\/air-india-tata-group-reveals-how-airline-got-its-name-75-years-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"Air India: Tata Group Reveals How Airline Got Its Name 75 Years Ago"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Days after taking over the management control of Air India, <strong>the Tata Group said the name of the airline was chosen over 75 years ago through an opinion poll among the company\u2019s employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0adbc1be-2838-11ec-b6b6-7f924b04e371_1633780543442_1633780559918.webp\" alt=\"Tata Group Reveals How Airline Got Its Name 75 Years Ago\" class=\"wp-image-17535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0adbc1be-2838-11ec-b6b6-7f924b04e371_1633780543442_1633780559918.webp 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/0adbc1be-2838-11ec-b6b6-7f924b04e371_1633780543442_1633780559918-300x169.webp 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Sharing nuggets of information about the history of the airline, the group said, back in 1946, when Tata Airlines expanded from a division of Tata Sons into a company, a name was to be chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>\u201cThe choice for the name of India\u2019s first airline company came down to Indian Airlines, Pan-Indian Airlines, Trans-Indian Airlines and Air India&#8221;<\/em><\/strong><\/p><cite>the Tata Group tweeted<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220207_143819-702x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tata Group Reveals How Airline Got Its Name 75 Years Ago\" class=\"wp-image-17536\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220207_143819-702x1024.jpg 702w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220207_143819-600x876.jpg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220207_143819-206x300.jpg 206w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220207_143819-768x1121.jpg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220207_143819-750x1094.jpg 750w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_20220207_143819.jpg 1043w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Tatas had lost control of Air India nearly seven decades ago before taking it back on Januray 27, 2022.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Tata Group also shared two pictures, including an excerpt from the Tata Monthly Bulletin of 1946, which Air India retweeted through its official handle. In the bulletin, it was said Tatas were faced with the problem of finding a name for the new airline which they were forming to take over and extend the activities of the Tata Airlines which had hitherto functioned as a department of Tata Sons Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><strong><em>&#8220;To the innately democratic mind of the head of the Tata organisation, it seemed a good idea to let the selection be made by popular opinion in Bombay House through a sort of poll or sample opinion survey.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p><cite>The bulletin <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Voting papers were distributed to ascertain the views of representative sections of opinion among Tata employees and they were requested to indicate their first and second preferences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL.jpeg\" alt=\"Tata Group Reveals How Airline Got Its Name 75 Years Ago\" class=\"wp-image-17537\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL.jpeg 900w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL-100x100.jpeg 100w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL-600x600.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL-768x768.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL-75x75.jpeg 75w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL-350x350.jpeg 350w, https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/FK42lRTaIAITsQL-750x750.jpeg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c<strong>The first count revealed 64 votes for Air India, 51 for Indian Airlines, 28 for Trans-Indian Airlines and 19 for Pan-Indian Airlines. When the less favoured names had been eliminated, the final count showed 72 votes for Air India and 58 for Indian Airlines,<\/strong>\u201d it read, while adding that thus, \u201c<strong>the name of the new company comes to be Air India\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay tuned and updated with Aviationa2z.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Days after taking over the management control of Air India, the Tata Group said the name of the airline was chosen over 75 years ago through an opinion poll among the company\u2019s employees.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[399,6761],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17533","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17539,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17533\/revisions\/17539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aviationa2z.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}