Air India inaugurated its first service to the United States with a Boeing 707-420 flight from Bombay to New York via Beirut, Zurich, Frankfurt and London on May 14, 1960.

This cover was carried on the inaugural Air India flight from the United Nations Post Office in new York to Bombay, India (where it was backstamped) and is listed in the Foreign Flag Flights Section of The American Air Mail Catalogue as AI-2u.