Air India expands codeshare with ANA; to function flights to Tokyo’s Haneda airport

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Air India on Monday (March 3, 2025) introduced increasing its codeshare partnership with All Nippon Airways (ANA) and in addition shifting its operations in Japan to Haneda airport, which is nearer to Tokyo metropolis.

From March 31, 2025, the airline will function its 4x weekly flights from Delhi to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND), changing the present companies to Narita Worldwide Airport (NRT).

“Haneda airport is situated 18 km from downtown Tokyo and cuts journey time to Tokyo station from almost one hour by highway (70 km from Narita) to round half-hour,” in keeping with a launch. Additional, the provider has expanded its codeshare partnership with ANA.

“Topic to due regulatory approvals, starting from April 1, 2025, Air India will place its ‘AI’ designator code on ANA’s flights between Tokyo Haneda and 6 different cities in Japan: Fukuoka, Hiroshima, Nagoya, Okinawa, Osaka, and Sapporo. This may permit Air India friends to journey to any of those locations on a single ticket, with their baggage checked by all the journey,” the discharge mentioned.

Reciprocally, ANA will place its ‘NH’ designator code on Air India’s flight between Delhi and Haneda, Delhi and Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata, and Pune. Each airways entered a codeshare settlement in April final yr.

Usually, a codeshare partnership permits an airline to e book its passengers on its accomplice provider, and there might be a single ticket.