{"id":300030,"date":"2019-11-08T11:12:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=300030"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:12:54","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T05:42:54","slug":"opinion-code-indigo-to-fly-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/opinion-code-indigo-to-fly-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion | Code Indigo to fly high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest airline IndiGo, owned and operated by InterGlobe Aviation, has announced a one-way code-share deal with Qatar Airways. This is the second such agreement that IndiGo has struck, the other being with Turkish Airlines, which is a two-way deal. A code-share pact typically allows its participant carriers to sell seats on one another\u2019s flights to provide their customers with a wider choice of flight times and destinations. In this case, Qatar Airways will place its code on IndiGo flights between Doha and Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Doha will serve as a hub for onward flights to its entire network of destinations. The arrangement comes into effect immediately.<\/p>\n<p>IndiGo has been able to expand its domestic market share to nearly 50% after the collapse of Jet Airways in April. It is now keen on expanding its overseas footprint, and the code-share deal would help it tap the country\u2019s rising transfer passenger traffic. The airline recently placed an order for 300 Airbus planes worth some $33 billion to replace old aircraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s largest airline IndiGo, owned and operated by InterGlobe Aviation, has announced a one-way code-share deal with Qatar Airways. This is the second such agreement that IndiGo has struck, the other being with Turkish Airlines, which is a two-way deal. A code-share pact typically allows its participant carriers to sell seats on one another\u2019s flights to provide their customers with a wider choice of flight times and destinations. In this case, Qatar Airways will place its code on IndiGo flights between Doha and Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad. Doha will serve as a hub for onward flights to its entire network [&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-300030","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\/300030","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=300030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}