India’s one of the leading passenger as well as full-service aircraft Jet Airways is all set to join hands with overseas numero uno Delta Airlines and France-KLM for the existing plans of global expansion, here on Tuesday. The alliance formed would help passengers connect worldwide in the near future.
The partnership with the leading US-based airline career as well as transatlantic venture will ensure that complete technicality adheres during the flight among these nations. Moreover, it will encompass code-sharing agreements, several synergies, and frequent flyer programs. The joint venture will further help in having a clear access to more than 40 airport base across the United States. Being one of the largest flight travel markets of the world, Jet Airways would have the feasibility to take control over such points where currently Indian airlines’ reachability is minimal.
The respective responsibility accredited to the India-based airlines is expressly the code-sharing which would eventually help to get access to fly to 13 international airports and 10 domestic destinations within the US via Paris. Some of the popular destination it will connect to and cover in Europe areAmsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Dublin, Frankfurt, Geneva, Madrid, Manchester, Munich, Nice, Oslo, Prague, Stockholm, Stuttgart, Vienna, and Zurich. The respective nations will be covered through the jointventure with France-KLM or Air France.
Accordingto the spokesperson of Jet Airways,India and US have an open sky agreement. As a network carrier with international operations, Jet Airways is constantly evaluating opportunities to offer greater connectivity to its guests.
Ahead of the deal with US and India and opening the gates for almost 40 points in the country, it would increase to 8 more entry points after the deal finalises with Air France. As for now, all the three full-service aircraft giants, Air France-KLM, Delta Airlines and Alitalia possess the world’s largest transatlantic agreement which offers more than 250 flights daily across US and Europe.
At present, the Mumbai-based airline has already a code sharing with Royal Dutch Airlines-KLM and Delta, which provides access to 10 points in the US via Amsterdam. A few days back, Jet Airways made an announcement regarding the market share which is almost 16%. Also, after the seamless connectivity to North America and Europe via Paris would increase the market share rate by October 30.
