JET AIRWAYS AND ALITALIA ENTER INTO A CODE SHARE PACT
CONNECTING INDIA AND ITALY
GUESTS TO ENJOY CONVENIENT CONNECTIONS ACROSS ITALY TO
ROME, VENICE, NAPLES, TURIN, FLORENCE, VERONA AND BOLOGNA
SEAMLESS CONNECTIVTY FROM MUMBAI, DELHI, KOCHI, AMRITSAR,
BENGALURU, CHENNAI, KOLKATA AND UDAIPUR TO ITALY
Mumbai, Rome, July 3, 2014: Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, and Alitalia, Italy’s
leading carrier, announce the expansion of their code share partnership offering guests enhanced
network connectivity between India and Italy and beyond to several Indian and Italian cities of touristic
and business importance.
The new code share flights are on sale from July 1, 2014, for travel starting July 5, 2014.
Under the expanded code share agreement, Jet Airways will place its marketing code on the Alitalia
operated flights between Abu Dhabi and Rome and beyond to Bologna, Florence, Naples, Turin, Venice
and Verona in Italy.
Similarly, Alitalia will place its code on Jet Airways flights operated between Abu Dhabi and Delhi,
Mumbai and Kochi. Alitalia will also place its code on Jet Airways’ flights beyond Mumbai and Delhi to
Amritsar, Bengaluru, Chennai, Kolkata and Udaipur.
In addition to the global accrual and redemption options on each other’s networks, our loyalty
programme partnership also ensures that Jet Privilege and MilleMiglia members will earn status miles
when travelling on these code share flights, thus enabling them to upgrade to high tier levels faster.
Guests can now book a ticket between India and Italy with Jet Airways or with Alitalia via the airlines’
websites www.jetairways.com or www.alitalia.com or through travel agencies.
Mr. Gaurang Shetty, Senior Vice President â Commercial, Jet Airways, said, “Jet Airways has constantly
innovated to set new benchmarks and our code share agreement with Alitalia is another distinctive
travel solution. India and Italy share strong ties, ranging across leisure, business tourism and commercial
trade. Thanks to the expanded code share agreement, we are able to offer our guests a wider access,
unmatched connectivity and seamless travel to Italy’s top destinations. The agreement with Alitalia is a
further step in Jet Airways’ strategy of growing on the global marketplace. We are confident that this
new expanded arrangement would mutually benefit Jet Airways and Alitalia and add value to the
travelling experience of the airlines â guests.”
Mr. Giancarlo Schisano, Alitalia’s Business Deputy General Director, said: “We are pleased to strengthen
our cooperation and we look forward to expanding the codeshare agreement with Jet Airways, which is,
for Alitalia, an important partner for reaching India, one of the most popular tourist destinations for
Italians. This agreement will certainly strengthen the role of Alitalia in the development of traffic flows,
both leisure and business, between Italy and India. Alitalia continues its strategy of developing
commercial agreements with major international companies, with the aim to offer to its customers an
increasingly larger number of destinations, routes and frequencies around the world”.
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About Alitalia
Alitalia - Compagnia Aerea Italiana (www.alitalia.com) is a fully private company that started its
operations on 13 January 2009. The Company’s 2014 summer schedule offers 103 destinations, of which
26 in Italy and 77 for the rest of the world, 186 routes and more than 4,700 weekly flights. The Company
carried 23.99 million passengers in 2013. Alitalia is a member of the SkyTeam global alliance and, since
2010, forms part with Air France-KLM and Delta Air Lines of the main air transport Transatlantic Joint
Venture. Today, the fleet of Alitalia is one of the youngest in the world with an average age of only 7
years and is one of the most efficient thanks to a reduction in the number of aircraft types and low
environmental impact. Alitalia has been recognised by the pollsters of the German Institute of Quality
and Finance (ITQF) as "the best airline for the services offered to customers", winning the gold medal
with an 82.6% percentage rate of satisfaction. In 2013, for the fourth year in a row, Alitalia, has been
recognized as the best airline in the world for the quality of its innovative onboard dining program in
Magnifica Business Class. The prize of “Best Airline Cuisine” has been awarded by the American
magazine Global Traveler, which has been conducting research on the exceptional achievements of the
travel and tourism industry for ten years. In 2013 Alitalia has also been awarded as with the prize Best
In-Flight Wine Program at the SAVEUR Culinary Travel Awards.
For more information contact: Alitalia Corporate Communications - Email: ufficio.stampa@alitalia.it
About Jet Airways
Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 112 aircraft, which include 10 Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft, 8
Airbus A330-200 aircraft, 4 Airbus A330-300 aircraft, 72 next generations Boeing 737-700/800/900/900
ER aircraft and 15 ATR 72-500 and 3 ATR72-600. With an average fleet age of 5.08 years, the airline has
one of the youngest fleet of aircraft in the world. Flights to 74 destinations span the length and breadth
of India and beyond, including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha,
Dubai, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kathmandu, Kuwait, London (Heathrow), Muscat, New York (Newark), Paris,
Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Toronto.
About JetKonnect
JetKonnect is a dedicated product designed to meet the needs of the low fare segment. JetKonnect will
also offer guests a Premiere service on nearly all domestic routes. With its mixed fleet of Boeings and
ATR aircraft with nearly 251 daily flights connecting 46 destinations across India, JetKonnect provides
more flexibility and choice to its guests. JetKonnect’s convenient schedules, reliable service and low
fares, promise to bring greater value and a seamless flying experience to our customers.
Jet Airways and JetKonnect together operate nearly 466 daily flights, both domestic and international
Public Relations
Jet Airways (I) Ltd.
New Delhi and Mumbai, India
Ragini Chopra
Vice President – Corporate Communications & Public Relations
Jet Airways (I) Ltd.
New Delhi, India
Tel: +91 11 4164 5080
Fax: +91 11 4609 5084
raginic@jetairways.com