- Sunday, May 05, 2024
By: Shubham Ghosh
AIR FRANCE-KLM and India’s IndiGo on Thursday (23) announced that they have reached a codeshare agreement that allows each airline to sell seats on the other’s flights.
Under the new partnership, Air France and KLM will offer their customers access to 25 new destinations in India, a joint statement revealed. This means that once the codeshare deal comes into effect, Air France-KLM will be able to sell seats of IndiGo flights on 25 routes in India on its distribution system.
Similarly, the low-cost Indian carrier can also sell seats on the European airline group’s flights on more than 250 routes, the statement said.
Air France and KLM operate flights to four Indian cities from their hubs in Paris and Amsterdam, respectively, and they are – Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru.
“Subject to government approval, this cooperation (codeshare) will start in February 2022,” the statement said.
IndiGo also has codeshare agreements with other foreign carriers such as Turkish Airlines, Qatar Airways and American Airlines.
While scheduled international passenger flights have been suspended in India since March 23, 2020, limited passenger flights have been operating between India and approximately 32 countries, including France and the Netherlands, under ‘air bubble’ arrangements.
