Singapore Airlines and Air India beginning Oct. 27 will add 51 destinations to their codeshare agreement, including 11 in India, the carriers announced Wednesday.
Air India and Singapore will codeshare on each other’s flights between Singapore and the Indian cities of Bengaluru and Chennai, increasing their weekly scheduled codeshare services between the countries to 56 from 14, according to the carriers.
Singapore also will codeshare on Air India’s domestic flights between Delhi and each Amritsar, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Lucknow and Varanasi; between Mumbai and each Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Goa, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow and Thiruvananthapuram; and between Kolkata and Guwahati.
Air India customers will have access to 29 destinations across Singapore’s network in Australia, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines and Vietnam.
In addition, Singapore customers will be able to connect to Air India’s international services from Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai to 11 destinations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa including Amsterdam, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Jeddah, Milan, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, and London at each Gatwick and Heathrow airports, according to the carriers. There also will be a connection available to Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The codeshare flights are subject to regulatory approval and the carriers progressively will make them available for sale. The is the first extensive expansion of codeshare arrangements between the two airlines since 2010, according to the carriers.
