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Malaysian Airline in code-share deal with Air India

Malaysian Airline System said on Wednesday it had struck a code-share deal with Air India and would start a weekly direct flight from Kuala Lumpur to the southern Indian city of Hyderabad from May 5.

MAS said it would operate the Hyderabad flight under the code-share agreement with Air India, enabling the Indian international airline to sell seats on the flight.

"Malaysian Airlines has entered into a code-share agreement with Air India," A Ramakrishna, MAS's manager for Andhra Pradesh state said.

MAS will operate the Hyderabad flight using an Airbus A330 aircraft.

Hyderabad, the capital of Andhra Pradesh, is seeking to emerge as the country's second hi-tech centre behind Bangalore.

In the latest round of bilateral air services talks between India and Malaysia, MAS won landing rights to three new destinations in India.

Besides the weekly Hyderabad flight, it has secured rights to fly four times a week to Bombay, India's financial capital, and twice a week to Bangalore.

It also also received approval to increase its Kuala Lumpur-New Delhi flights to four from two a week.

MAS now operates daily flights to Madras in southern India.

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