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JET AIRWAYS SHARE AGREEMENTS WITH AIR
FRANCE, KLM

Jet Airways and European carriers Air France and Royal
Dutch Airlines (KLM) have entered into a code share agreement to provide seamless connectivity to passengers for destinations in India and Europe.
As per the agreement, Air France (AF) and KLM can place their own codes (AF) and (KL) on Jet Airways domestic flights for
providing connectivity to three major Indian cities beyond South
Indian city of Bengaluru, Delhi
and Mumbai.
Code share is a commercial agreement between two or more airlines that share the same
flight, with all the partnering airlines able to sell seats on that particular flight.
"Customers travelling from Europe to India on Air France flights will now be able to
connect seamlessly with one ticket to Chennai via Bengaluru,Delhi and Mumbai, and to Kolkata,Hyderabad via Mumbai and Bengaluru.
"Likewise, KLM would place its marketing code (KL) on Jet's
domestic flights to four major cities in India beyond Delhi,
allowing passengers travelling from Europe to India to connect seamlessly to South Indian cities
of Bengaluru, Chennai,
Hyderabad and Western Coastal Indian city of Mumbai via Delhi," a joint statement issued by Jet and AF-KLM said.
The tickets are open for sale from Monday for passengers wanting to travel from June 19.
"We are delighted with this enhancement in our relationship with both Air France and KLM...The code share
arrangements will allow our guests the convenience of
enhanced connectivity from across Air France and KLM's networks via their European
gateways in Paris and
Amsterdam to key destinations throughout India," Chief Commercial Officer of Jet Airways,
Sudheer Raghavan said.
Referring to the agreement,Dominique Patry, Air France's
Vice-President, International Affairs and Alliances, said, "we are strengthening our presence in a key market following the
code sharing agreement with Jet
Airways."
Pieter Elbers, MD and Chief Operating Officer of KLM, said
KLM is pleased with this important step in expanding the
cooperation between Jet Airways and KLM.
"Being able to serve our customers an expanded network
in India with four important domestic code share destinations is considered as key
strategic value to our company," he said.
Air France-KLM have 27 weekly long-haul flights between Europe and India, while Jet Airways
operates to 72 places in India and abroad including Abu Dhabi,
Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels,Dubai, Hong Kong, Jeddah,London, New York (Newark),
Singapore and Toronto.