Jet Airways, Delta Air Lines, Virgin Atlantic expand code sharing agreement
Jet Airways flyers between India and North America will be able to connect through London Heathrow on to nine US destinations operated by Delta
Mumbai: Delta Air Lines, Virgin Atlantic and Jet Airways (India) Ltd have expanded cooperation to provide convenient codeshare connections for customers between key destinations across North America and India via London Heathrow.
Effective 2 November, Jet Airways flyers between India and North America will be able to connect through London Heathrow on to nine US destinations operated by Delta. These destinations include: Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Salt Lake City and Seattle, Jet Airways said in a statement on Monday.
A codeshare agreement is a business arrangement where two or more airlines share the same flight which means that each airline publishes and markets the flight under its own airline designator and flight number as part of its published timetable or schedule.
In turn, Delta and Virgin Atlantic customers flying between North America and India will be able to connect with Delta codeshare onto Jet Airways’ flights to Mumbai and Delhi via London Heathrow and onward to 20 destinations within India. The new Delta codeshare destinations include Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Calicut, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Pune, Trivandrum and Vadodara. The new routes complement Delta and Jet Airways destinations available through existing codeshare agreements via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
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First Published:31 Oct 2016, 10:49 PM IST
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