Air India signs reciprocal codeshare deal with Kenya Airways

Air India, India’s national carrier owned by the Tata Group, and Kenya Airways, one of the continent’s most modern carriers, have announced the airlines have entered into a codeshare partnership for flights between India and Africa. The newly penned deal, announced on January 30, 2025, reaffirms the carriers’ commitment to each other by adding to the existing interline agreement between the partners’ networks.

According to an Air India statement, “The codeshare and interline partnerships together allow passengers of both airlines to enjoy convenient access to a wider range of destinations across regions, leveraging a single ticket and a unified baggage policy for a hassle-free travel experience.”

Patrick Mutzenberg / Wikimedia CommonsAs part of the newly signed codeshare agreement, Air India will place its ‘AI’ two-letter flight prefix code on the twice-daily Boeing 737 flights between Nairobi and Mumbai operated by Kenya Airways. These flights provide for passengers flying in from Nairobi and beyond points to connect to onward destinations served via Mumbai on Air India-operated flights. Such destinations include Bangkok (Thailand), Colombo (Sri Lanka), Dhaka (Bangladesh), Malé (The Maldives), Melbourne (Australia), and Singapore.

These services are in addition to existing connections that passengers from Nairobi can take to several other destinations within and outside of India via Air India’s hub in Delhi when they travel on Air India’s direct Boeing 787 Dreamliner service between Nairobi and Delhi. The new agreement will also enable Kenya Airways to place its ‘KQ’ prefix code designator code on Air India-operated flights between Delhi and Nairobi, thus enabling Kenya Airways passengers from across Africa to travel to Delhi via Nairobi.

GCmap.comThe interline agreement between Air India and Kenya Airways enables passengers to seamlessly travel on a single itinerary between any of 28 points in Africa, including Accra, Addis Ababa, Dar Es Salaam, Harare, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Victoria Falls, Seychelles, Kilimanjaro, Mombasa, and Zanzibar to name a few), and 15 points in India which include Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Delhi, Goa, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, and Hyderabad.

“Deepening our partnership with Kenya Airways aligns perfectly with Air India’s strategic vision of expanding our global footprint and strengthening our position in key markets”, said Nipun Aggarwal, Chief Commercial Officer of Air India. “Our codeshare partnership will provide significant benefit to guests of both airlines and also contribute to the overall growth of air travel between India and Africa.”

“We are delighted to expand our partnership with Air India, which will open up significant opportunities for our passengers. This codeshare agreement allows us to offer seamless connections to a wider range of destinations across both airlines’ networks, making travel easier and more convenient” said Julius Thairu, Chief Commercial and Customer Officer of Kenya Airways.

According to the carriers, Air India and Kenya Airways plan to progressively add other destinations in their networks to the codeshare agreement over time as the relationship between the two carriers builds on the back of this first codeshare arrangement.

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