British Airways to Codeshare with an Indian Airlines

In a major development the British Airways and an Indian Airlines, Kingfisher Airlines have decided to implement code sharing on each other’s flights across India, UK and all over Europe starting from coming 15 September 2010.

This development is very important as it is for the first time that the British Airways has initiated this for an India based airlines. As such the British airways code will be shared on 11 domestic Indian routes and one route to Sri Lanka operated by Kingfisher Airlines and in turn Kingfisher Airlines’ code will be placed on nine British Airways’ routes from Heathrow to the UK regions and continental Europe.

As a consequence of this,the airlines’ customers will be able to book their whole journey on each other’s websites, earn frequent flyer points on the code share routes and gain access to each other’s airport lounges.

Kingfisher Also announced earlier that it is lining up to join oneworld. The codeshare with British Airways will mean that our guests from India will now be able to fly seamlessly to nine new European cities. Besides making onward connections much simpler, this will mean enhanced connectivity and reach for guests traveling with us to Europe. Similarly, all British Airways’ fliers will now be able to travel with India’s first and only five star airline.

British Airways have flights from from Heathrow to Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Chennai. Hence its code will be placed on Kingfisher Airlines flights from Bangalore to Chennai, Coimbatore and Kochi; Chennai to Coimbatore and Colombo (Sri Lanka). Delhi to Bangalore and Kolkata; Mumbai to Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad and Kolkata.

Kingfisher Airlines flies from Delhi and Mumbai to Heathrow. Its code will be placed on British Airways flights from Heathrow to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Lisbon and Paris.