INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
IndiGo and American Airlines codeshare arrangement is likely to be carried out by March 2022American Airlines is in the procedure of getting
requisite approvals from the US government for its codeshare agreement with IndiGo airlines and the partnership is most likely to carried
out by March 2022, a senior authorities of the Texas-based provider has stated.American Airlines and IndiGo had in September revealed that
they have actually entered into a codeshare contract which enables the former to sell seats - on its distribution system - of the Indian
carrier's flights operating on 29 routes.The Texas-based provider resumed its New York-Delhi flight on November 12 after a space of 10
years.American Airlines' Handling Director (Sales) Tom Lattig said that the provider's Seattle-Bengaluru flight would begin flying from
March 25 rather of January 4 as was revealed previously
We have actually not seen much corporate travel recovery yet
We know that path (Seattle-Bengaluru) in specific will depend greatly on business traffic and we have decided to press the date, he
mentioned.The airline company has more than 2,000 agreements in place in the US with different companies, he noted
Any of our big innovation companies in North America, on the west coast in specific, which is where we anticipate to get traffic from for
our Seattle-Bengaluru flight, we already have those business arrangements in place, he mentioned.American Airlines would be going to those
business and adding special rates for them on its new service to India, Mr Lattig added.Gulf carriers such as Qatar Airways and Emirates
bring a substantial share of traffic on the India-US routes and the India-Europe routes through their one-stop flights.When asked how he
sees the competition postured by the Gulf providers on the India-US routes, Mr Lattig replied: We certainly expect to be able to take
traffic on our non-stop services
To the level the pie is going to grow - it is going to be a larger market - we will definitely have the ability to take traffic and build
I do expect we would be able to take traffic from airline that carry passengers via third nations (one-stop flights)
Definitely, that will be the target for us, Mr Lattig added.He stated there is a great deal of pent up need for travel in between India and
The United States And Canada
We see that (pent up need) in our forward bookings
We wish to fly a growing number of flights, he added.When asked if the Indian government needs to resume scheduled worldwide flight
services, Mr Lattig said, It's actually approximately the government to choose when they are going to open and the number of flights they
We certainly intend to move towards open skies, he added.American Airlines is in the process of the getting the requisite approvals from
the US government regarding their codeshare collaboration with IndiGo, he said
Once we get all the approvals, we will move into the implementation phase and we expect that to be in the very first quarter of 2022, he
said.It is going to be actually a terrific collaboration for us due to the fact that it is going to help us connect passengers from The
United States and Canada to all over in India and the Indian traveler to throughout the United States, he added
