Much before all of this, Tata Group attempted to bid for a 40 per cent stake in national carrier Air India and had tried to rope in Singapore as a consortium partner.
This move and also the group's plans to enter the domestic air space with Singapore Airlines were quashed by the government. Though certain private airlines in India were rumored to be behind the government's action, Tata Group's airline project never quite took off after that.
Image: A Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 superjumbo at the Changi International Airport terminal in Singapore. | Photograph: Roslan Rahman/AFP/Getty Images
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