SkyTeam carriers Delta and KLM announced a new codeshare arrangement with Jet Airways that will see the Indian carrier trade Amsterdam for Brussels as its European hub and cease its service to Newark. Delta and KLM flights to North America will have Jet Airways codes added to them, as will KLM’s existing service to Delhi which currently carries a Delta codeshare.
The new setup will result in one-stop service to Delhi and Mumbai from 11 North American cities under the cross-codeshare agreement. Jet will provide further connections from these gateway cities to Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Kolkata and Amritsar, plus Kathmandu, Colombo and Dhaka.
On the US side, New York-JFK, Newark, Chicago, Washington DC, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Edmonton are included. It’s unclear why most of Delta’s largest hubs — Atlanta, Minneapolis, Salt Lake, Detroit, Seattle — and thus its largest markets, are missing from the deal.
Jet also receives codeshares with KLM to a number of European destinations.
The margins for ultra-longhaul flying are thin and complex. That’s particularly true in the Indian market, in which security, political, efficiency, capacity and flag-carrier issues swirl murkily, and where Delta has not been reluctant to stir the pot.
Following Delta’s October cancellation of the ultra-longhaul Atlanta-Dubai route, the airline responded publicly to Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief Karen Walker’s column that questioned Delta’s true motives for canceling the route. Delta blamed the ME3 for the failure of its non-stop services to Mumbai. That route, operated at different times from New York and Atlanta, existed for fewer than three years, and was cancelled more than six years ago.
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The new setup will result in one-stop service to Delhi and Mumbai from 11 North American cities under the cross-codeshare agreement. Jet will provide further connections from these gateway cities to Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Ahmedabad, Kochi, Kolkata and Amritsar, plus Kathmandu, Colombo and Dhaka.
On the US side, New York-JFK, Newark, Chicago, Washington DC, Houston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal and Edmonton are included. It’s unclear why most of Delta’s largest hubs — Atlanta, Minneapolis, Salt Lake, Detroit, Seattle — and thus its largest markets, are missing from the deal.
Jet also receives codeshares with KLM to a number of European destinations.
The margins for ultra-longhaul flying are thin and complex. That’s particularly true in the Indian market, in which security, political, efficiency, capacity and flag-carrier issues swirl murkily, and where Delta has not been reluctant to stir the pot.
Following Delta’s October cancellation of the ultra-longhaul Atlanta-Dubai route, the airline responded publicly to Air Transport World Editor-in-Chief Karen Walker’s column that questioned Delta’s true motives for canceling the route. Delta blamed the ME3 for the failure of its non-stop services to Mumbai. That route, operated at different times from New York and Atlanta, existed for fewer than three years, and was cancelled more than six years ago.
16/12/15 John Walton/Runway Girl Network
