Singapore Airlines has signed a codeshare deal with Greek airline Aegean Airlines and expanded its agreement with Virgin Australia.
SIA’s deal with Aegean means that its ‘SQ’ code will be added to Aegean’s flights from Athens to Frankfurt, Heathrow, Milan and Munich, as well as services from Greece’s second-largest city Thessaloniki to Frankfurt and Munich.
Aegean will add its ‘A3’ code to SIA flights serving Singapore from Frankfurt, Milan and Munich, and flights from Singapore to Melbourne and Sydney.
Both airlines are part of the Star Alliance and the codeshares will take effect when they are given regulatory clearance.
SIA has also expanded the existing codeshare with Virgin Australia to cover more destinations in Australia, Asia and Europe.
The codeshare now covers all of Virgin Australia’s domestic services, which adds another 32 Australian destinations. The plan is that it will also be extended to cover flights from Australia to the New Zealand cities of Dunedin, Queenstown and Wellington, subject to securing approval from regulators.
In early 2013, Virgin Australia will extend its current codeshare with SIA to cover connections from Australia’s east coast to Europe and more cities in Asia, via SIA’s Singapore hub.
Virgin Australia currently codeshares on SIA flights to Europe from Adelaide, Perth and Darwin, via Singapore.