Flybe Announces Codeshare With Air India

Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, on Wednesday (May 4) announced its tenth codeshare partnership, with Star Alliance member Air India.

This will enable travelers using its multi-frequency Birmingham services from Belfast City, Edinburgh and Glasgow to book flights onward to Delhi.

Under the unilateral agreement, Air India will place its marketing code on these Flybe flights (BE).

“United kingdom is the residence of large number of Indian diaspora. However, this codeshare agreement will be a huge benefit not only to the Indians living in UK but also to tourists travelling to and from domestic sectors of the UK and India. Air India is continuously working towards providing seamless connectivity to its passenger across routes and with our agreement with Flybe, Air India passengers will have an unmatched connectivity in UK, ” said Ashwani Lohani, chairman and managing director of Air India.

Seats will be available for booking via the Air India website from 10 May, with travel effective from June1, 2016.

Saad Hammad, Flybe’s CEO said, “Our new codeshare agreement with Air India is another exciting development for Flybe and tangible evidence of our continued growth. It further strengthens our commitment to connecting our regional customers with our ‘One Stop to the World’ proposition.

This new partnership is going to offer numerous benefits to customers who will be able to use a single ticket to fly from their local airport to Delhi via a seamless connection through Birmingham Airport onto Air India’s daily flights to New Delhi.

We can now give customers in the UK regions convenient access to the Indian subcontinent through Birmingham Airport. This relieves them of the need to undertake long road or rail journeys to and from the UK's congested south east hub airports. It will also serve in contributing further to local economies by encouraging inbound travel from South East Asia, Hammad added.