India’s premier national airline Air India celebrated 65 glorious years of its operations from India to the UK on the 9th of June 2013 at a special gala reception at the prestigious The Montcalm Hotel in Central London. The event also coincided with the official launch of Air India’s new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft into the key United Kingdom travel market.

Officials at the European Commission have ten Chinese and Indian airlines are facing the prospect of exclusion from airports in the European Union for refusing to comply with rules aimed at regulating greenhouse emissions. The airlines include Air China and Air India, with both carriers among those accused of not providing emissions data.

Boeing has marked a historic milestone, with delivery of the first 787 Dreamliner built at its North Charleston facility to Air India. The delivery continues the momentum of the 787 Dreamliner’s entry into revenue service by customers globally and marks the beginning of a new era of commercial airplane production in South Carolina.

Boeing and Air India are celebrating the delivery of the airline’s first 787 Dreamliner. “Today is a great day for Air India as the most technologically advanced and fuel efficient airplane in the world joins our fleet,” said Rohit Nandan, Air India chairman.

The government has approved a bailout for Air India totalling 300 billion rupees ($5.8 billion) which will be injected into loss-making carrier over the next nine years. The government also approved the carrier’s plans to add 27 Boeing 787s and three 777s.

The member airlines of the Star Alliance network and Air India have jointly concluded that the integration of Air India into the global airline alliance will be suspended. This is due to the fact that Air India has not met the minimum joining conditions that were contractually agreed in December 2007.