Orient Airways Ltd. (Urdu: اورینٹ ایَیر ویز لمیٹڈ) was an airline established in 1946 with its base in Calcutta, Bengal, British India.

[7] The designated route was Kolkata-Sittwe (then known as Akyab)-Yangon (Myanmar), which also happened to be the first post-war international operation to be flown by an airline registered in the British Raj.

Orient Airways, along with the help of some chartered BOAC aircraft, started relief operations and transportation of the population between Delhi and Karachi, the capitals of India and Pakistan, respectively.

Later, Orient Airways transferred its base to Pakistan and established the vital link between Karachi and Dhaka (Dacca).

[1] The following return routes were advised by the board (1948):[1] Orient Airways was the designated local carrier for airmail throughout the country.