Delta expands codeshare connections to India via London
Friday, 31 Oct, 2016
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Delta Air Lines, Virgin Atlantic and India’s Jet Airways have expanded codeshare connections between key destinations across North America and India via London Heathrow.
It means that, for the first time, customers will be able to hold a single Delta ticket from North America to India via London.
Starting on November 2, Jet Airways customers flying between India and North America will be able to connect through Heathrow to nine US destinations operated by Delta: Atlanta, Boston, Detroit, Minneapolis, New York, Philadelphia, Portland, Salt Lake City and Seattle.
In turn, Delta and Virgin Atlantic customers flying between North America and India will be able to connect with Delta codeshare onto Jet Airways’ flights to Mumbai and Delhi via Heathrow and onward to 20 destinations within India.
The new Delta codeshare destinations include Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Calicut, Chennai, Cochin, Coimbatore, Goa, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mangalore, Pune, Trivandrum and Vadodara.
The new routes complement Delta and Jet Airways’ destinations available through existing codeshare agreements via Amsterdam Airport Schiphol and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
Delta senior vice president Europe, Middle East, Africa and India Nat Pieper said: "With up to 11,000 people flying daily between India and North America, and with trade and tourism flows increasing between the US, UK and India, we are giving our customers more versatile schedule options between North America and India.
In 2017 and subject to government approvals, Virgin Atlantic will expand its existing codeshare with Jet Airways on Virgin-operated flights from Heathrow to 10 cities across North America including Miami, Newark, San Francisco and Washington.
Virgin Atlantic already operates a successful codeshare with Jet Airways on flights between five Indian cities and London Heathrow via Delhi.
Bev
Editor in chief Bev Fearis has been a travel journalist for 25 years. She started her career at Travel Weekly, where she became deputy news editor, before joining Business Traveller as deputy editor and launching the magazine’s website. She has also written travel features, news and expert comment for the Guardian, Observer, Times, Telegraph, Boundless and other consumer titles and was named one of the top 50 UK travel journalists by the Press Gazette.
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