Ministry puts temporary curbs on Jet Airways to help Air India

New Delhi: The civil aviation ministry has decided to temporarily stop granting Jet Airways (India) Ltd any new code-share agreements with foreign carriers that are members of Star Alliance until national carrier Air India joins the international grouping next year, two government officials said.
Air India was invited to join Star Alliance, the biggest of the three global airline alliances, in 2007 and is expecting to join by March. Jet, India’s largest private carrier, hasn’t said when it will join an airline alliance, though it has been gradually collaborating with member airlines of Star Alliance by entering into code-share agreements with them, a move that Air India and the aviation ministry are averse to.
“There can’t be two people in the same boat,” said a top ministry official, who asked not to be named. “They can join (Star Alliance) after Air India has completed the process.”
Star Alliance, OneWorld and SkyTeam are the three international airline alliances.
25/08/10 Tarun Shukla/Live Mint

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