Air India on Monday (March 3, 2025) introduced increasing its codeshare partnership with All Nippon Airways (ANA) and in addition shifting its operations in Japan to Haneda airport, which is nearer to Tokyo metropolis.
From March 31, 2025, the airline will operate its 4x weekly flights from Delhi to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND), changing the present providers to Narita International Airport (NRT).
“Haneda airport is located 18 km from downtown Tokyo and cuts travel time to Tokyo station from nearly one hour by road (70 km from Narita) to around 30 minutes,” in accordance to a launch. Further, the provider has expanded its codeshare partnership with ANA.
“Subject to due regulatory approvals, beginning from April 1, 2025, Air India will place its ‘AI’ designator code on ANA’s flights between Tokyo Haneda and six other cities in Japan: Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Okinawa, Osaka, and Sapporo. This will allow Air India guests to travel to any of these destinations on a single ticket, with their baggage checked through the entire journey,” the discharge mentioned.
Reciprocally, ANA will place its ‘NH’ designator code on Air India’s flight between Delhi and Haneda, Delhi and Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Pune. Both airways entered a codeshare settlement in April final yr.
Generally, a codeshare partnership permits an airline to e book its passengers on its companion provider, and there can be a single ticket.
Published – March 03, 2025 04:04 pm IST
