Turkish Airlines and IndiGo resumed their existing codeshare partnership
IndiGo, India’s largest airline, and Turkish
Airline, the national flag carrier airline of Türkiye, have resumed
their codeshare flights and partnership by opening the sale earlier this
month. Scheduled operations will be restarted in a phased manner with
the first flight effective yesterday. The codeshare
is considered as Bilateral Free Flow Codeshare wherein both the
airlines will place its code on another’s flights. The agreement will
enable both the carriers to provide more flexibility of choice to the
customers on sectors between India and Istanbul, amongst
others.
In
the 1st phase, both the airlines are open for sale, with Turkish
Airlines as the marketing carrier, and IndiGo as the operating carrier.
Turkish
Airlines will be placing its code on trunk route flights operated by 6E
on the Delhi-Istanbul route and later from six domestic destinations in
India including Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Chennai, Mumbai and
Kolkata.
Mr. Ronojoy Dutta, Wholetime Director and Chief Executive Officer, IndiGo
said, “We are pleased to resume our strategic partnership with
Turkish Airlines to offer more options to our passengers. Owing to the
recovery of overall aviation industry, this agreement will extend our
on-time, affordable, courteous, and hassle-free travel
experience by expanding the choices available to our customers for
journeys beyond Istanbul, using Turkish Airlines’ extensive network
through a dozen destinations covered by our agreement.”
Mr. Bilal
Ekşi,
Chief Executive Officer Turkish Airlines,
said, “After
witnessing two tough years of pandemic, airline industry is now in the
new period which will enable us to recover and improve
partnerships. In this new era, every cooperation has become more
important for each airline. We are very happy to see that as Turkish
Airlines and IndiGo, we reactivated our codeshare cooperation by
resumption of our flights between Turkiye and India. I am
glad to announce that our passengers will continue to experience better
connections by this opportunity.”
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