Flag carrier Qatar Airways entered into a new interline partnership with the Tata-Singapore Airlines Vistara effective today.
The agreement allows passengers of each airline to travel seamlessly under a single ticket on the other’s network via Indian gateways where both airlines operate to. The baggage allowances of the passengers will be as per the issuing airline’s rules.
Qatar Airways operates services from Doha to New Delhi, Kochi, Ahmedabad, Amritsar, Bengaluru, Mumbai, Khozikode, Kolkata, Goa, Hyderabad, Chennai, Nagpur and Thiruvananthapuram. The cities struck out is where Vistara does not currently operate to.
Vistara has interline or through check-in agreements with Air France, KLM, Japan Airlines, All Nippon Airways (ANA), British Airways, Finnair, Aeroflot, Ethiopian Airlines, Austrian Airlines, Kenya Airways, Emirates, and Ethiopian Airlines. It also has codeshare partnerships with its parent Singapore Airlines and Singapore’s regional subsidiary SilkAir.
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