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Low cost carrier Volotea will start codesharing on Aegean Airlines’ flights between Athens and Zagreb. The arrangement will commence on March 31 and will see Volotea place its “V7” designator code and flights numbers onto three weekly Aegean Airlines flights between the two capitals, on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays (V75126/27). Aegean Airlines and Volotea have a commercial Joint Venture in place, with Aegean acquiring a 21% stake in the Spanish airline last year. Volotea recently announced the closure of its Athens base in favour of developing the codeshare partnership with its minority stakeholder.
Interestingly, easyJet also sells tickets to Zagreb through its Worldwide by easyJet program on Aegean's flights from Athens to Zagreb.
ReplyDeleteCan someone explain what is the point of all this?
ReplyDeleteThe point of codeshares?
DeleteThe point is summer season and millions of foreign tourists from distant markets who don't come to Europe to stay in one city but visit several cities and countries and hop locally by plane between Spain, Greece and Croatia which are interesting for most of them, and if you have codeshares between the three it's easier to organize and book itinerary. As Croatia Airlines is as we all know in deep hibernation for three decades now, others are doing the job. Expect Volotea codeshares next to come to Aegean Dubrovnik and Split flights as well
DeleteBravo Hrvatska!
ReplyDeleteA3 has since increased its stake in V6 to 21% for a total cost of 50 million Euros.
ReplyDeleteI think they will acquire all of the airline at some point
DeleteGreat!
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