Jet Airways and American Airlines enter code share arrangement

20 November 2007

Jet Airways has announced that it has entered into a code share partnership with American Airlines, offering its customers seamless travel between India and the USA.

Jet Airways operates daily flights between India and New York''s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK) via its Brussels hub. Subject to regulatory approvals, effective 16 January 2008, Jet Airways will place its 9W designator code on certain American Airlines domestic flights out of New York''s John F. Kennedy Airport (JFK).

In turn, American Airlines will place its AA designator code on Jet Airways flights to certain cities in India, beyond the Jet Airways Delhi-hub. American Airlines flies non-stop daily between its Chicago hub and Delhi.

In addition, American and Jet Airways will code share and co-operate on traffic between the United States and India that connects at Brussels Airport as well as hope to expand their code share co-operation on other routes in the months ahead.

Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, Jet Airways'' chief executive officer, said, "This mutually rewarding partnership will extend our reach into the USA and deliver several benefits to our customers such as a wider choice of destinations with excellent connections, frequent flyer benefits on code share flights, seamless transfers and interline e-ticketing. The co-operation between Jet Airways and American Airlines will result in more options for our customers travelling between the US and India.

Both American and Jet Airways operate out of American''s new $1.3 billion state-of-the-art terminal at JFK.