India's leading global airline recently announced its expansion of codeshare partnerships with both Lufthansa Group and Virgin Australia. Through these new partnerships, travelers can enjoy access to more than 100 routes combined across the Indian subcontinent, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and the Americas.
The expanded agreements with Austrian Airlines, Lufthansa and SWISS increase flight options for travelers across 12 Indian, 26 European and three American cities. Air India's partnership with Virgin Australia also creates new codeshare routes to 16 cities across Australia and New Zealand.
Air India and Lufthansa Group carriers are members of Star Alliance. Frequent flyers will continue to earn and redeem points/miles on all four airlines, while elite status holders of Air India's Maharaja Club and Lufthansa Group's Miles & More programs will benefit from Star Alliance Gold advantages like priority services, extra baggage allowance and airport lounge access across the world.
"Our goal is to enable our customers to travel from any corner of the world to another via Air India and its partner airlines. The expansion of our partnership with Lufthansa Group is a step in that direction, and we are pleased to take this long-standing relationship to the next level," said Nipun Aggarwal, CCO, Air India.