Kenya Airways expands codeshare deal with India's Jet Airways

Kenya Airways has expanded cooperation with Indian airline Jet Airways to code share on domestic flights between Mumbai and three Indian cities in order to enhance connectivity choices for guests travelling from Kenya into India.

Under the agreement announced Wednesday, the Kenyan carrier will have its flight code (KQ) on Jet Airways' seven daily flights between Mumbai and New Delhi, five daily flights from Mumbai to Ahmedabad and five daily flights between Mumbai and Hyderabad for travel effective today.

Kenya Airways CEO Mbuvi Ngunze said in a statement issued in Nairobi that the partnership will enable customers of both carriers to get maximum benefit of this cooperation.

"This partnership will enable us to offer our customers seamless connections to the three cities. We see a lot of demand into domestic India from Kenya and East Africa, with passengers travelling mostly for business, leisure or health tourism," Mbuvi said.

The arrangement also enables Jet Airways passengers to book codeshare tickets to the Kenyan capital Nairobi, and access the rest of Kenya Airways network across Africa.

"This, together with KQ's twice daily flights on the Nairobi-Mumbai route will allow Kenya Airways passengers greater access to these key Indian cities and onwards to other destinations in India," Ngunze said.

Jet Airways Chief Commercial Officer, Jayaraj Shanmugam, said the expansion of codeshare relationship with Kenya Airways will allow them to offer the Indian diaspora in Kenya convenient access to more destinations in India. Endit