New Delhi: Air India on Monday introduced increasing its codeshare partnership with All Nippon Airways (ANA), and likewise shifting its operations in Japan to Haneda airport, which is nearer to Tokyo metropolis. From March 31, the airline will function its 4x weekly flights from Delhi to Tokyo’s Haneda Airport (HND), changing the prevailing providers to Narita Worldwide Airport (NRT).

Haneda airport is situated 18 kilometres from downtown Tokyo and cuts journey time to Tokyo station from practically one hour by street (70 kilometres from Narita) to round half-hour, in accordance with a launch. Additional, the service has expanded its codeshare partnership with ANA.

“Topic to due regulatory approvals, starting 1 April 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 company to journey to any of those locations on a single ticket, with their baggage checked by way of your complete journey,” the discharge stated.

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. Typically, a codeshare partnership permits an airline to ebook its passengers on its companion service, and there will probably be a single ticket.