{"id":271689,"date":"2019-04-29T05:25:47","date_gmt":"2019-04-29T05:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=271689"},"modified":"2019-04-29T05:25:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T05:25:47","slug":"gulf-air-in-talks-with-airlines-in-india-to-forge-codeshare-partnerships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/gulf-air-in-talks-with-airlines-in-india-to-forge-codeshare-partnerships\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Air in talks with airlines in India to forge codeshare partnerships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Air is in talks with Abu Dhabi\u2019s Etihad Airways to deepen an existing codeshare agreement, the Bahrain carrier\u2019s chief commercial officer said, as the airline seeks to expand its network and become the region\u2019s boutique airline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe scope of a partnership with Etihad can include domains in which we might find strengths,&#8221; Vincent Coste said on Sunday on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai. The partnership might expand to include maintenance and cargo handling, but is currently focused on the codeshare, he said. That agreement began March 20, according to Etihad\u2019s statement at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The state-owned carrier, which flies five Boeing 787 jets equipped with Rolls Royce engines, isn\u2019t facing issues with the Trent 1000 engine, Coste said, after Rolls recommended extra checks for excessive wear.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Air is in talks with Abu Dhabi\u2019s Etihad Airways to deepen an existing codeshare agreement, the Bahrain carrier\u2019s chief commercial officer said, as the airline seeks to expand its network and become the region\u2019s boutique airline. \u201cThe scope of a partnership with Etihad can include domains in which we might find strengths,&#8221; Vincent Coste said on Sunday on the sidelines of the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai. The partnership might expand to include maintenance and cargo handling, but is currently focused on the codeshare, he said. That agreement began March 20, according to Etihad\u2019s statement at the time. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,139,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}