Ambica Airlines

Ambica Airlines
Commenced operations10 March 1947
Ceased operationsDecember 1949
Operating basesMumbai, India
Fleet sizeSee below
DestinationsBaroda Ahmedabad Bhuj Rajkot Jamnagar Morvi
Parent companyShri Ambica Steam Navigation Company
HeadquartersBombay, Bombay State, India
Key people

Ambica Airlines is a defunct airline, which was based at Bombay, India.

Ambica Airlines began local services on 10 March 1947. The fleet consisted of DC-3s, with a three Beech 18s and other types. The airline was associated and subsidiary of the Shri Ambica Steam Navigation Company, a shipping company owned & established by Seth Vijaysinh Govindji & Jagmal Raja Chauhan in 1945.

Ambica Airline operated on 944 kilometers route, twice-weekly services Bombay-Vadodara-Ahmedabad and thrice-weekly Bombay-Bhuj-Rajkot-Jamnagar-Morbi route. The airline was started by businessman Seth Haridas Madhavdas, Seth Vithaldas Kanji, Seth Vijaysinh Govindji and Rai Bahadur Jagmal Raja, having its head office at Bombay.

The airlines closed in the year 1949 due to insufficient traffic and other litigations.

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