Summary
- IndiGo and Qantas have expanded their codeshare partnership, allowing IndiGo’s passengers to access key destinations in Australia, starting with Melbourne and later including Sydney, Perth, and Brisbane.
- The partnership enables seamless connections for IndiGo customers to fly to Singapore after which hook up with Qantas flights to Melbourne.
- IndiGo has also formed codeshare agreements with other major global airlines, including British Airways, Turkish Airlines, Qatar Airways, American Airlines, and Air France-KLM.
Indian low-cost airline IndiGo and Australia’s flag carrier Qantas have enhanced their codeshare partnership by including key destinations in Australia as a part of the deal. The Qantas partnership is one in every of many codeshare deals that IndiGo has signed with foreign carriers because it looks to broaden its long-haul network globally.
Sydney, Melbourne, and more…
IndiGo’s passengers will have the ability to access 4 key destinations in Australia – Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, and Brisbane – as a part of its codeshare take care of Qantas, starting with Melbourne, with the remaining three cities to be added in the approaching weeks.
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IndiGo has said that the brand new codeshare routes allow its customers to fly to Singapore and connect seamlessly to Qantas’ flights between Singapore and Melbourne. Pieter Elbers, Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo, commented,
Going strong
Qantas’ codeshare partnership with IndiGo was launched in 2022 with 14 routes, including many key Indian cities, akin to Ahmedabad, Chennai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Mumbai, and Pune, amongst others. The initial agreement included 11 routes from Bengaluru (based on Qantas Sydney-Bengaluru service) and three from Delhi (for its Melbourne-Delhi flight).
In January this 12 months, the partnership was further enhanced to incorporate a further eight IndiGo destinations – Guwahati, Indore, Chandigarh, Mangaluru, Jaipur, Nagpur, Thiruvananthapuram, and Visakhapatnam.
The India-Australia sector has seen a lot better connectivity in the previous few years, with each Air India and Qantas launching non-stop flights. Air India recently announced its Mumbai-Melbourne non-stop service along with its existing routes from Delhi to Sydney and Melbourne. In November, there are 188 return flights between the 2 countries. This, in fact, doesn’t include the connecting flights that many passengers take from popular hubs akin to Singapore and Malaysia.
IndiGo’s codeshare partnerships
IndiGo’s Qantas deal is one in every of its several such partnerships with major global airlines. It recently announced an agreement with British Airways, adding BA’s code on its flights to 3 Indian cities – Thiruvananthapuram, Rajkot, and Vadodara.
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Its partnership with Turkish Airlines has seen swift expansion in recent months and now includes several major European destinations and five US cities – Recent York, Washington, Boston, Chicago, and San Francisco.
IndiGo also enjoys similar agreements with other major carriers, akin to Qatar Airways, American Airlines, and Air France-KLM.
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