OneWorld Considering Indian partner

[LionKing]

oneworld Alliance considers Indian partner as market expands

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The oneworld Alliance, an airline group with 15 members ranging from American Airlines to Qantas Airways, is considering an Indian airline partner as the market continues to grow, its chief executive said. "India is a market that we collectively have interest in finding...

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I sincerely hope 6E can join OneWorld, and they can ramp up negotiations with CZ to make OneWorld service available in the world's largest economies and enable us to earn status credits.

 

[MEL_Traveller]

oneworld Alliance considers Indian partner as market expands

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The oneworld Alliance, an airline group with 15 members ranging from American Airlines to Qantas Airways, is considering an Indian airline partner as the market continues to grow, its chief executive said. "India is a market that we collectively have interest in finding...

sg.finance.yahoo.com

I sincerely hope 6E can join OneWorld, and they can ramp up negotiations with CZ to make OneWorld service available in the world's largest economies and enable us to earn status credits.

6E would have to drastically improve their service offering I think to join OW? They’re essentially a low cost carrier, despite introducing ‘business class’ recently. Watched a flight review and the business class meal is something in a cardboard box (and not to KLM standards )

 

[SYD]

6E would have to drastically improve their service offering I think to join OW? They’re essentially a low cost carrier, despite introducing ‘business class’ recently. Watched a flight review and the business class meal is something in a cardboard box (and not to KLM standards )

AB was essentially a LCC but that didn’t end well unfortunately.

Kingfisher of course was the Indian “promised land” that failed to deliver…

 

[MEL_Traveller]

AB was essentially a LCC but that didn’t end well unfortunately.

Kingfisher of course was the Indian “promised land” that failed to deliver…

Or Jet Airways. They were ok/good.

Ah, kingfisher… the virgin Atlantic of India! They were certainly fun… being dry on domestic routes they served sparking apple juice in champagne flutes, and little extras like the crew cleaning your reading glasses before landing!

 

[Mwenenzi]

List of airlines of India - Wikipedia
IndiGo - Wikipedia Codes share with 6 OW airlines

Codeshare agreements
IndiGo codeshares with the following airlines:
Aegean Airlines[90]
Air France[91]
American Airlines[92]
British Airways[93]
Garuda Indonesia[94][95]
Japan Airlines[96]
Jetstar[97]
KLM[91]
Malaysia Airlines[98]
Qantas[99]
Qatar Airways[100]
Turkish Airlines[101]
Virgin Atlantic[102]

 

[elanshin]

oneworld Alliance considers Indian partner as market expands

NEW YORK (Reuters) -The oneworld Alliance, an airline group with 15 members ranging from American Airlines to Qantas Airways, is considering an Indian airline partner as the market continues to grow, its chief executive said. "India is a market that we collectively have interest in finding...

sg.finance.yahoo.com

I sincerely hope 6E can join OneWorld, and they can ramp up negotiations with CZ to make OneWorld service available in the world's largest economies and enable us to earn status credits.

Itd be interesting for sure, but also i suspect would depend on how 6e changes. I'm not sure if ow would take on a pure LCC.

As for CZ, I don't think we'll see CZ as long as CX is around. JX maybe but CZ is literally based next door to CX.

 

[dajop]

6E would have to drastically improve their service offering I think to join OW? They’re essentially a low cost carrier, despite introducing ‘business class’ recently.

It depends on whether the objective is to provide more airlines for customers, or more customers for member airlines?

Regardless of onboard product (or the absence of lounges on the ground) or benefits for travellers, Indigo offers one world member airlines potentially improved access to Indian travellers, who are part of or will form part of the Indigo ecosystem. There is no one else currently in the Indian market that has the breadth that Indigo has, other than Air India which is locked into Star Alliance.

 

[wandering_fred]

If QF is going to do more codeshares into the Indian subcontinent, a good start would be to expand the sharing with UL through CMB to more than just from SIN.
But UL issued tickets certainly help my wandering
Fred

 

[SYD]

If QF is going to do more codeshares into the Indian subcontinent, a good start would be to expand the sharing with UL through CMB to more than just from SIN.
But UL issued tickets certainly help my wandering
Fred

That would leach traffic off their direct services ex SYD/MEL.

 

[Daver6]

The only full service airline in India is AI. The other was UK, but they merged/acquired by AI unfortunately.

 

[SYD]

The only full service airline in India is AI. The other was UK, but they merged/acquired by AI unfortunately.

Creeping closer to OW material.

https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/indigo-a350-a321xlr-business-class

 

[Daver6]

Creeping closer to OW material.

https://www.executivetraveller.com/news/indigo-a350-a321xlr-business-class

I think what's really needed though is OW for domestic travel within India. A flat bed on international aircraft doesn't make any difference to the cramped planes domestically.

 

[SYD]

I think what's really needed though is OW for domestic travel within India. A flat bed on international aircraft doesn't make any difference to the cramped planes domestically.

I didn’t think they were particularly cramped for the flights we did earlier this year…

 

[MELso]

I think what's really needed though is OW for domestic travel within India. A flat bed on international aircraft doesn't make any difference to the cramped planes domestically.

Possibly need to inform BA, IB and AY, none of which are paragons of space in Y on their A320s either...

 

[SYD]

Possibly need to inform BA, IB and AY, none of which are paragons of space in Y on their A320s either...

Again, they’re hardly LCC sardine pitches..

 

[dajop]

Again, they’re hardly LCC sardine pitches..

BA A320 - 30 rows. Indigo A320 - 30 rows. Iberia - 31 rows. I know the position of galleys/toilets are different. BA has galley between front door and seats - 6E does not. Whilst 6E has toilets between passengers and rear doors - BA does not. 6 of one half a dozen of another.

 

[drron]

I flew Indigo early this year and they were quite OK. But glad we went to India then as quite unfriendly for wheelchairo.

 

[Daver6]

I didn’t think they were particularly cramped for the flights we did earlier this year…

28" from memory

 

[SYD]

28" from memory

31” on A321XLR and widebodies. 28-29” standard on A320s. Perhaps the forward seats have slightly more - I really couldn’t tell the difference across 6E and BA flights recently.