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Vistara Airline service, the joint venture of Tata Sons and Singapore airlines, set to start business from today. Its first flight service is going to be Delhi to Mumbai. Domestic airline service in India will be having bright future according to market analysts.

Re-born of Tata’s airline service after over six decades is remarkable in the India aviation sector. India’s first licensed pilot JRD Tata, founded India's first commercial airline, Tata Airlines in 1932, which became Air India in 1946, now India's public sector air line service. He and Nevill Vintcent worked together in building Tata Airlines.

The Tata Group had announced in September,2013, about the formation of a 51:49 joint venture with Singapore Airlines to launch a full-service carrier in the country. The Vistara encountered a few minor bumps in its pre-launch stage, with private airlines lobbying against its approval, and delays in securing permit.

Vistara will operate its flights from Delhi base to Goa, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chandigarh, Srinagar, Jammu and Patna in the first year, the airline had stated in the plan, submitted to DGCA at the time of applying for air operator permit.

Vistara will operate 87 flights in the first year, with five leased Airbus A-320s, and then scale it up to 301 flights by fourth year end with Airbus A-320s. Vistara took delivery of its first A320 on 23 September 2014. Vistara will be the third full-service carrier in the country, after Air India and Jet airways.

AW: Kannamsai