This is a list of defunct airlines of India.
| Airline | Image | IATA | ICAO | Callsign | Commenced operations | Ceased operations | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air Asiatic | 1990 | 1991 | ||||||
| Air Carnival | 2S | ACV | CARNAIR | 2016 | 2017 | |||
| Air Costa | LB | LEP | LECOSTA | 2013 | 2017 | |||
| Air Dravida | 2004 | 2008 | ||||||
| AI | AIC | AIR INDIA | 1932 | 2012 | ||||
| AI | AIC | 1946 | 1962 | Renamed to Air India | ||||
| Air India Regional | CD;9I | LLR | 2007 | 2017 | Called Alliance Air from 1996 to 2007 then renamed back to Alliance Air in 2017. | |||
| M1 | MANTRA | 2012 | 2013 | |||||
| 6X | ODISHA | 2011 | 2019 | |||||
| Air Pegasus | OP | PPL | PEGASUS | 2007 | 2016 | |||
| Air Sahara | S2 | RSH | 2000 | 2007 | Merged into Jet Lite, later merged into Jet Airways. | |||
| 1946 | 1953 | |||||||
| AirAsia India | I5 | IAD | RED KNIGHT | 2014 | 2022 | Acquired by Tata Group, renamed to AIX Connect. | ||
| Airways (India)[1] | 1945 | 1955 | ||||||
| AIX Connect | I5 | IAD | RED KNIGHT | 2022 | 2024 | Merged into Air India Express | ||
| Ambica Airlines | 1947 | 1949 | ||||||
| Archana Airways[2] | F5 | ACY | ARCHANA | 1991 | 1999 | |||
| Aryan Cargo Express | YE | ACQ | ACE CARGO | 2005 | 2010 | Stored in Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai | ||
| Chhattisgarh Air Link | 2012 | 2019 | ||||||
| CityLink Airways | XF | 1992 | 1993 | |||||
| Cosmos Airways | K6 | 1994 | 1997 | B.747F-Some wet-leased from Cargolux when needed. | ||||
| Crescent Air Cargo | C8 | CAC | 2000 | 2006 | ||||
| Damania Airways[3] | D2 | DMQ | 1993 | 1997 | Renamed/merged to Skyline NEPC | |||
| Darbhanga Aviation | 1950 | 1962 | ||||||
| Deccan 360[4] | 3C | DEC | DECCAN CARGO | 2009 | 2011 | |||
| Deccan Airways | 1945 | 1953 | ||||||
| 2007 | ||||||||
| East-West Airlines | W2 | EWT | 1992 | 1995 | ||||
| Easy Air | 2015 | 2015 | Owned by Premier Airways | |||||
| Elbee Airlines | LBE | 1994 | 1998 | |||||
| Goa Way Aviation | 1992 | 1993 | ||||||
| Gujarat Airways[5] | G8 | GUJ | GUJARATI | 1995 | 2001 | |||
| G8 | GOW | GOAIR | 2005 | 2021 | Renamed to Go First | |||
| G8 | GOW | GOAIR | 2021 | 2023 | Liquidated | |||
| Handley Page Indo-Burmese Transport[6] | First airline in present-day India, operated in the early 1920s | |||||||
| Himalayan Air Transport & Survey[7] | 1934 | 1935 | ||||||
| Himalayan Aviation | 1948 | 1953 | Renamed to Indian Airlines | |||||
| LF | LCI | 1996 | 2000 | |||||
| Huns Air | 1974 | 1980 | ||||||
| Indian | IC | IAC | INDAIR | 2007 | 2011 | Merged into Air India | ||
| Indian Airlines | IC | IAC | INDAIR | 1953 | 2007 | Renamed to Indian | ||
| Indian National Airways | 1925 | 1945 | ||||||
| Indian Overseas Airlines | 1947 | 1950 | ||||||
| Indian State Air Service | 1929 | 1931 | ||||||
| Indian Transcontinental Airlines | 1933 | 1948 | ||||||
| Indus Air | O9 | ACY | 2006 | 2007 | ||||
| Irrawaddy Flotilla & Airways[8] | 1934 | 1939 | Its fall was triggered by the Japanese invasion of Burma in 1942[9] [10] | |||||
| JGN | JAGSON | 2005 | 2010 | |||||
| Jamair | 1946 | 1977 | ||||||
| 9W | JAI | JET AIRWAYS | 1993 | 2019 | Liquidated | |||
| S2 | JLL | 2009 | 2014 | Merged into Jet Airways, Liquidated | ||||
| JetLite | S2 | RSH/JLL | 2007 | 2012 | Renamed/merged with Jet Konnect | |||
| Jupiter Airways[11] | 1948 | 1953 | ||||||
| Kairali Airlines | 2013 | 2017 | ||||||
| Kalinga Airlines | 1946 | 1965 | ||||||
| Kingfisher Airlines | IT | KFR | KINGFISHER | 2003 | 2012 | Liquidated | ||
| DN | DKN | 2008 | 2012 | |||||
| MDLR Airlines | 9H | MDL | MDLR | 2007 | 2009 | Was sold to Emirates in 2010 | ||
| Mistri Airways | 1946 | 1947 | Renamed Indian Overseas Airlines | |||||
| HT, M9 | MOD | MODILUFT | 1994 | 1996 | Was converted into SpiceJet by Ajay Singh | |||
| NEPC Airlines | D5 | NEP | 1993 | 1997 | ||||
| Orient Airways | 1946 | 1955 | Became Pakistan International Airlines after transfer from Kolkata, India to Karachi, Pakistan | |||||
| Paramount Airways | I7 | PMW | PARAWAY | 2005 | 2010 | |||
| Pushpaka Airlines | 1979 | 1983 | ||||||
| RajAir | 1993 | 1994 | ||||||
| Safari Airways | 1971 | 1977 | ||||||
| Sahara Airlines | S2 | RSH | 1993 | 2000 | Renamed to Air Sahara | |||
| Simplifly Deccan | DN | DKN | DECCAN | 2007 | 2008 | Merged into Kingfisher Airlines | ||
| 2016 | 2018 | |||||||
| Transportes Aéreos da Índia Portuguesa | 1955 | 1961 | Operated from Portuguese India | |||||
| 2T | TRJ | TRUJET | 2015 | 2022 | Ceased all operations in February 2022 | |||
| Vayudoot | PF | VDT | VAYU | 1981 | 1997 | |||
| VIF Airways | V2 | VIF | 1993 | 1996 | ||||
| Vijay Airlines | 1981 | 1997 | ||||||
| Vistara | UK | VTI | VISTARA | 2013 | 2024 | Merged into Air India |