Kingfisher Airlines' Executive Vice-President (Commercial) Manoj Chacko and British Airways' Chief Executive Willie Walsh on Saturday announced the launch of code sharing between the two air carriers from September 15.
Under the code-share agreement, British Airways (BA) code will be placed on 11 domestic routes and one international route (Sri Lanka) operated by Kingfisher Airlines while Kingfisher Airlines' code will be placed on nine British Airways routes from Heathrow to the U.K. regions and continental Europe. “The code-share with Kingfisher Airlines will give our customers easier access to the Indian domestic routes and Sri Lanka,” Mr. Walsh said.
The BA code will be placed on Kingfisher flights from Bangalore to Chennai, Coimbatore and Kochi, Chennai to Coimbatore and Colombo, Delhi to Bangalore and Kolkata, Mumbai to Bangalore, Chennai, Goa, Hyderabad and Kolkata.
Similarly, the Kingfisher code will be placed on BA flights from Heathrow to Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester, Amsterdam, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Lisbon and Paris.
Kingfisher plans to add over 10 per cent capacity from the coming winter schedule besides adding a couple of domestic and international routes, Mr. Chacko told reporters here.
