Air India, Germany's Lufthansa tie up to grow passenger traffic

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Air India, Germany’s Lufthansa tie up to grow passenger traffic

A Lufthansa plane moves on the tarmac at Leonardo da Vinci International Airport in Fiumicino, near Rome, Italy, September 23, 2024. REUTERS/Remo Casilli · Reuters

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Tue, 17 February 2026 at 9:58 pm GMT+9 1 min read

Feb 17 (Reuters) - Air India and Lufthansa plan to fly more passengers ‌between India and Europe and collaborate ‌on areas such as route planning and IT infrastructure, ​the airlines said on Tuesday, seeking to capitalise on the recently concluded India-EU free trade agreement.

The airlines will initially focus on ‌increasing traffic between ⁠India and Lufthansa’s core markets of Germany, Austria, Belgium, Italy and ⁠Switzerland. The partnership would later expand to cover the rest of Europe and ​the Indian ​subcontinent.

The carriers currently ​codeshare on 145 routes ‌across 15 Indian and 29 European cities and 20 countries.

The scope of the partnership will be finalised after the formation of a comprehensive joint business agreement, which ‌will be subject to ​regulatory approvals.

In January, Air ​India entered ​a cooperation framework with Singapore Airlines ‌to allow the carriers ​to increase ​routes, reduce overlap and more broadly enhance collaboration. Singapore Airlines holds a ​25% stake ‌in Air India.

(Reporting by Mridula Kumar in ​Bengaluru; Writing by Abinaya Vijayaraghavan; ​Editing by Mrigank Dhaniwala)

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