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Delhi based low cost airline IndiGo, plans to launch flights from India to Turkey but will not carry any passengers from Turkey to a third country.
“We cannot comment on the precise agreement as it is commercially sensitive. At the moment we have plans to put in services from India to Turkey but not beyond,” a spokesperson for the airline said.
IndiGo and Turkish Airlines announced a codeshare and mutual cooperation agreement on Friday. Incidentally, this is the first code share agreement that IndiGo has signed since it started operations over a decade ago.
“We are confident that both companies will benefit but more importantly respective customers will benefit. There will be 20 cities available to us beyond Istanbul. As you can imagine most will be in Europe,” the spokesperson said. The airline expects to sign more such agreements in the future.
Queried on whether going in for a code share or an interline agreement was not against the basics tenants of low cost airlines, the spokesperson said that in other parts of the world low cost airlines have gone in for such agreements.
``There was even an alliance formed in the Far East between low cost airlines and promoting code sharing which happened recently,” the spokesperson said.
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