AI's entry into Star Alliance: India lags in fulfilling norms

Mumbai: Problems relating to Air India joining the Star Alliance are likely to be discussed by the airline CMD, Arvind Jadhav, who is in Brussels to attend a meeting of the global airlines body.
"Jadhav is in Brussels where Brussels Airlines is joining the Star Alliance. The issue of Air India's entry into Star Alliance is expected to figure in his interactions with the officials," NACIL (National Aviation Company of India Limited) sources said here today.
The national carrier's entry into the Star Alliance was okayed in December 2007, but its formal admission into the elite club of major global airlines has been deferred time and again due to a host of requirments not being fulfilled. The airline has set a deadline of June 2010 for its formal entry into the alliance, which is an inter-line commercial pact among world carriers to providing passengers wider choices for air travel and related facilities. Other competing alliances are the One World and SkyTeam.
Among the major requirements which Air India has to fulfill is the common flight code, which continues to be AI for Air India and IC for the erstwhile Indian Airlines even two years after their merger.
09/12/09 PTI/Economic Times

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Categories: Foreign Dec 2009, NACIL Dec 2009