Delta, Virgin Atlantic and Jet Airways have announced a new codeshare
agreement covering services between North America and India via London
Heathrow.
From November 2 Jet Airways customers travelling between India and
North America will be able to connect at Heathrow onto nine US
destinations operated by Delta, namely Atlanta, Boston, Detroit,
Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Salt Lake City and
Seattle.
At the same time Delta customers will be able to connect onto Jet
Airways services to Mumbai and Delhi via Heathrow, and onto 20 Indian
destinations including Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Calicut, Chennai,
Cochin, Coimbatore, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow,
Mangalore, Pune, Trivandrum and Vadodara.
The new agreement adds to the existing Delta and Jet Airways codeshares via Amsterdam Schiphol and Paris CDG.
Then in 2017 (subject to government approvals) Delta’s transatlantic
joint venture partner Virgin will expand its existing codeshare
agreement with Jet Airways, with the Indian carrier placing its code on
Virgin flights from Heathrow to ten North American cities including
Miami, Newark, San Francisco and Washington.
Virgin already codeshares on Jet Airways routes to five Indian cities from Heathrow via Delhi. Codeshare services will be available at delta.com, virgin-atlantic.com and jetairways.com,
and Delta and Jet Airways frequent flyer programme members will “soon
be able to enjoy network-wide, reciprocal mileage earning and redemption
privileges”.
