IndiGo, India's leading airline, and British Airways have signed a codeshare agreement to further boost connections between India and the UK. Through this partnership which sees British Airways add its code onto a couple of destinations across IndiGo’s network – customers can enjoy improved connectivity between India and the United Kingdom for travel from October 12, 2023.
With this codeshare partnership with IndiGo, British Airways will now be able to add three additional routes to their existing network:
Amritsar to London Heathrow via New Delhi; Kochi to London Heathrow via Mumbai;
Ahmedabad to London Heathrow via Mumbai; Goa to London Heathrow via Mumbai; Thiruvananthapuram to London Heathrow via Mumbai (new); Kolkata to London Heathrow via Mumbai; Rajkot to London Heathrow via Mumbai (new); Vadodara to London Heathrow via Mumbai (new).
The agreement means that customers travelling, for example from Rajkot to London, or transiting through London Heathrow (or vice versa) will be able to connect to their destination on a single ticket.
IndiGo operates an extensive domestic and regional network with a fleet of A320 aircraft. All British Airways customers travelling onwards with IndiGo will be able to enjoy a complimentary meal and the UK carrier’s generous baggage allowance in economy via codeshare for flights to India – two checked bags up to 23 kilos per person.
British Airways is now exceeding pre-pandemic levels of flights to India, ahead of celebrating 100 years of flying to Delhi next year. The airline is operating 56 flights a week, to five Indian gateways: Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Bangalore, and Hyderabad.