Air India and Kenya Airways have entered a codeshare partnership, complementing the existing interline agreement between the two carriers.
Air India-Kenya Airways Codeshare
The codeshare and interline partnerships together allow passengers of both airlines to enjoy easy access to a wider range of destinations across regions, leveraging a single ticket and a unified baggage policy.
As part of the codeshare agreement, Air India will place its ‘AI’ designator code on twice daily flights between Nairobi and Mumbai operated by Kenya Airways, which will connect passengers via Mumbai on Air India-operated flights to or from Bangkok, Thailand; Colombo, Sri Lanka; Dhaka, Bangladesh; Malé, The Maldives; Melbourne, Australia; and Singapore. These are in addition to existing connections that passengers from Nairobi can take to several other destinations within and outside of India via Delhi, when flying from Nairobi to Delhi with Air India.
Deepening our partnership with Kenya Airways aligns perfectly with Air India’s strategic vision of expanding our global footprint and strengthening our position in key markets. Our codeshare partnership will provide significant benefit to guests of both airlines, and also contribute to the overall growth of air travel between India and Africa.
Nipun Aggarwal, Chief Commercial Officer, Air India said.
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The new agreement also enables Kenya Airways to place its ‘KQ’ designator code on Air India-operated flights between Delhi and Nairobi, thus enabling Kenya Airways passengers from across Africa to travel to Delhi via Nairobi.
The interline agreement between Air India and Kenya Airways enables passengers to seamlessly travel on a single itinerary between any of 28 points in Africa (Accra, Addis Ababa, Dar Es Salaam, Harare, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Victoria Falls, Seychelles, Kilimanjaro, Mombasa, and Zanzibar to name a few), and any of 15 points in India (Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, and Hyderabad to name a few).
We are delighted to expand our partnership Air India, that will open up significant opportunity for our passengers. This codeshare agreement allows us to offer seamless connections to a wider range of destinations across both airlines’ networks, making travel easier and more convenient.
Julius Thairu, Chief Commercial and Customer Officer, Kenya Airways said.
The airlines said that they plan to progressively add other destinations in their networks to the codeshare agreement.
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