August 6, 2019: Singapore Airlines (SIA) and SilkAir have become Vistara's first codeshare partners after it announced its international flights to Singapore from New Delhi and Mumbai.
Vistara commenced international operations from today with its Delhi-Singapore operations, using Boeing 737-800NG aircraft.
Under the expansion of an existing codeshare agreement which covers Indian domestic flights, SIA will add its ‘SQ’ designator code to Vistara’s new international flights.
In addition, SIA and SilkAir will add nine new codeshare destinations within India on Vistara-operated flights (Chandigarh, Dibrugarh, Jammu, Leh, Pune, Raipur, Ranchi, Siliguri and Srinagar).
With this expansion, SIA will codeshare on Vistara flights to more than 20 Indian destinations.
Similarly, Vistara will add its ’UK’ designator code to SIA- and SilkAir-operated flights between Singapore and eight destinations in India (Ahmedabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Cochin, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi).