Star Alliance members Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Air India will be significantly expanding their codeshare agreement, adding 11 Indian cities and another 40 international destinations to their network.

This marks the first extensive expansion of codeshare arrangements between the airlines since 2010, offering passengers enhanced travel options between Singapore and India, as well as beyond.

Subject to regulatory approvals, the codeshare flights will be progressively made available for sale through the airlines’ respective booking channels from 27 October 2024. Both airlines plan to progressively include other destinations in their network to the codeshare arrangements.

From late October, Air India and SIA will codeshare on each other’s flights between Singapore and Bengaluru and Chennai, increasing their total weekly scheduled codeshare services between the countries to 56 from 14.

SIA will codeshare on Air India’s domestic flights between Delhi and Amritsar, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Lucknow, and Varanasi, between Mumbai and Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Coimbatore, Goa, Jaipur, Kolkata, Lucknow, and Thiruvananthapuram, as well as between Kolkata and Guwahati.

Air India customers will be able to access 29 destinations across SIA’s network – Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Darwin, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney, Brunei, Phnom Penh and Siem Reap, Denpasar, Jakarta, Medan, Surabaya, Fukuoka, Nagoya, Osaka, Tokyo-Haneda, and Tokyo-Narita, Busan and Seoul, Kuala Lumpur and Penang, Auckland, Cebu and Manila, as well as Danang, Hanoi, and Ho Chi Minh City.

This includes existing codeshare arrangements to Kuala Lumpur.

SIA customers will also be able to connect to Air India’s international services from Bengaluru, Delhi, and Mumbai to 12 destinations across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

These are Copenhagen, Paris, Frankfurt, Milan, Nairobi, Amsterdam, Jeddah and Riyadh, Colombo, as well as Birmingham, London-Gatwick, and London-Heathrow.

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