Quote: "Well their management has always been poor, venal, inefficient and not terribly good, see also PIA. Along came a better product at a better price from Sandpit Productions and Game Over.
Air India have some very expensive B777-200LRs that they never needed and were instructed to buy (see corruption and incompetence above, also ongoing governmental interference). When they finally managed to make a case to get rid of them, no one would take them as they're in a very poor state for a state of the art aircraft. Air Canada had a look and said "Gee whiz no thanks and cheerio."
Emirates are a much better bet as they tend to at least operate on the same day they are scheduled to....."
No, before all that, in the 1950s/1960s/early 1970s when AI was the carrier of choice, the skytrax 5-star equivelant of that time. Hard to believe, but it really was the case! Surprisingly, PK was also a reputable carrier in those days.