New Delhi: India and Britain are set to amend a bilateral pact to allow airlines from the two countries to expand their reach to smaller cities, two civil aviation ministry officials said on condition of anonymity.
The move will set the stage for Air India and Kingfisher Airlines Ltd to enter so-called domestic code-sharing agreements with British Midland Airways (BMI) and British Airways Plc. (BA), respectively, as sought by the Indian carriers earlier this year.
Code sharing allows an airline to include a connecting flight operated by another carrier on its own ticket. The practice is followed mainly for international flights. The expected amendment will make Britain the sixth country in which Indian carriers can have domestic code-sharing pacts, after the US, France, China, Japan and the Netherlands.
The amendment will also put the two Indian carriers on their way to joining global airline alliances, or networks of airlines that have code-sharing agreements with each other.
09/05/10 Tarun Shukla/Live Mint
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