Ending
a seven-year-long wait, the Star Alliance Chief Executive Board (CEB),
at its meeting in London on Monday June 23,2014, gave an endorsement vote to induct
Air India into the fold.
“We are happy to note that
Air India has become part of the Star Alliance. This is one of the
biggest alliances in the world”, Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi
Raju told
With this, Air India becomes the first Indian carrier to
join a global alliance, the largest one now having 27 member airlines
in its fold.
A formal induction ceremony would be
held here some time next month, for which Air India is getting a Boeing
787 Dreamliner and an Airbus A-320 — signifying its international and
domestic operations, painted with the Star Alliance logo and livery.
The
move would help Air India passengers to access the alliance’s global
network of over 21980 daily flights to 1,328 airports in 195 countries.
The
member airlines of Star Alliance together own a total of 4,338 aircraft
and fly over 640 million passengers a year, many of whom can also earn
and burn frequent flyer miles on the entire alliance network.
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