Air India and Singapore Airlines add 51 new destinations to their codeshare agreement
Air India and Singapore Airlines (SIA) have agreed to significantly expand their codeshare agreement, adding 11 Indian cities and 40 other international destinations to their network. This is the first major expansion of the agreements between the airlines since 2010.
Effective October 27, 2024, Air India and SIA will code-share on each other’s flights between Singapore and the Indian cities of Bengaluru and Chennai, increasing the total weekly scheduled services between the two countries from 14 to 56.
SIA will code-share on Air India’s domestic flights between Delhi and Amritsar, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Lucknow and Varanasi, between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Goa, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow and Thiruvananthapuram, as well as between Kolkata and Guwahati.
Air India customers will be able to access 29 destinations in the SIA network. Destinations include Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney (Australia), Bandar Seri Begawan (Brunei), Phnom Penh and Siem Reap (Cambodia), Denpasar, Jakarta, Medan and Surabaya (Indonesia), Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo-Haneda and Tokyo-Narita (Japan), Busan and Seoul (South Korea), Kuala Lumpur and Penang (Malaysia), Auckland (New Zealand), Cebu and Manila (Philippines), as well as Danang, Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam). This includes existing codeshare agreements with Kuala Lumpur and Penang.
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SIA customers will also be able to connect to Air India’s international services from Bengaluru, Delhi and Mumbai to 12 destinations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. These destinations include Copenhagen (Denmark), Paris (France), Frankfurt (Germany), Milan (Italy), Nairobi (Kenya), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Jeddah and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Colombo (Sri Lanka), as well as Birmingham, London-Gatwick and London-Heathrow (UK).
Both airlines plan to progressively include other destinations in their network to the codeshare agreements.
Subject to regulatory approvals, these flights will be progressively made available for sale through the airlines’ respective booking channels.
“This is a continuation of our effort to offer our customers more choice and a wider global network. Air India and Singapore Airlines have been long-standing partners, and with this expansion of the scope of our codeshare agreement, we are very pleased to offer our customers greater connectivity to destinations across Southeast Asia, the Far East and Australasia” said Nipun Aggarwal, chief commercial officer, Air India.
“This extension of Singapore Airlines’ codeshare agreements with Air India reflects the strong spirit of collaboration between our two airlines. The addition of Air India’s domestic network to our codeshare agreements will also offer our customers greater connectivity and convenience in India, which is a key market for the SIA Group,” explains Lee Lik Hsin, chief commercial officer of Singapore Airlines.
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