Qantas seeks carrier alliance for India

Qantas has attempted to shore up its fledgling services to Mumbai by applying for a code-sharing agreement with Indian carrier Jet Airways.
Two years after Qantas launched three direct weekly services from Sydney to Mumbai, the national carrier has applied to the International Air Services Commission to code-share services with Jet Airways to Mumbai, New Delhi and Chennai from Singapore.
Conversely, India's largest publicly listed airline will code-share with Qantas on flights from Singapore to all of Australia's capital cities.
Despite talk Qantas could use the deal to cancel its Indian services - similar to how it used its code-share with Air France to cover its retreat from Paris two years ago - the airline's head of sales and marketing, Rob Gurney, said the deal was aimed at expanding Qantas's coverage to Indian cities it did not fly to.
05/07/06 Sydney Morning Herald, Australia

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