Jet Airways and Alitalia Expand Codeshare

India’s Jet Airways and Alitalia have expanded their codeshare partnership offering travellers enhanced network connectivity between India and Italy and beyond.

The new codeshare flights are on sale now for travel starting July 5, 2014.

Under the expanded codeshare agreement, Jet Airways will place its marketing code on the Alitalia operated flights between Abu Dhabi and Rome and beyond to Bologna, Florence, Naples, Turin, Venice and Verona in Italy.

Similarly, Alitalia will place its code on Jet Airways flights operated between Abu Dhabi and Delhi, Mumbai and Kochi. Alitalia will also place its code on Jet Airways’ flights beyond Mumbai and Delhi to Amritsar, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Udaipur.

In addition to the global accrual and redemption options on each other’s networks, the loyalty programme partnership also ensures that Jet Privilege and MilleMiglia members will earn status miles when travelling on these codeshare flights, thus enabling them to upgrade to high tier levels faster.

Mr. Gaurang Shetty, Senior Vice President - Commercial, Jet Airways, said, “Jet Airways has constantly innovated to set new benchmarks and our codeshare agreement with Alitalia is another distinctive travel solution. India and Italy share strong ties, ranging across leisure, business tourism and commercial trade. Thanks to the expanded codeshare agreement, we are able to offer our guests a wider access, unmatched connectivity and seamless travel to Italy’s top destinations. The agreement with Alitalia is a further step in Jet Airways’ strategy of growing on the global marketplace. We are confident that this new expanded arrangement would mutually benefit Jet Airways and Alitalia and add value to the travelling experience of the airlines â guests.”