Mumbai: United Airlines’ decision to suspend a code share partnership with Jet Airways (in the wake of the US Federal Aviation Administration's decision to downgrade India's safety ranking) will impact the Indian airline, which earns about 15 per cent of its revenue from interline and code share sales.
Jet had also earlier announced a relaunching of its New York service in May and plans to launch a Chicago flight in the winter schedule. These new services could get impacted due to the FAA decision, too.
Interline and code shares are commercial agreements which allow one airline to sell tickets on flights operated by a partner airline. United, along with Air Canada, Brussels Airlines and Qantas, are the top code share partners of Jet Airways. Etihad will join the list as the Gulf airline expands its partnership with Jet.
It is not clear whether Jet can continue placing its code on United-operated flights following the FAA downgrade. Jet did not respond to an email query on the issue.
The FAA decided to assign a Category-II rating to India under its International Aviation Safety Assessment (IASA) programme. Affected customers are being rebooked from their UA codeshare flight, United said. The airline did not explain the impact of the downgrade on reciprocal code shares.
Read News In Full 03/02/14 Aneesh Phadnis/Business Standard
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