Air Seychelles Extends Etihad Codeshare

Air Seychelles has extended its codeshare agreement with equity alliance partner Etihad Airways to include new connections to Australia.
 The new codeshare flights offer connections to Seychelles from Melbourne and Sydney, through Abu Dhabi. Flights from Melbourne offer daily connections, with 10 flights per week from Sydney and three weekly return connections from Seychelles to Melbourne and Sydney.
This comes after a Memorandum of Understanding for air services between the Republic of Seychelles and the Australian Government. Members of Air Seychelles’ joint loyalty programme, Etihad Guest, will earn miles for their entire journey when they fly on the Etihad Airways-operated codeshare flights to or from Australia.

KQ and China Southern Sign Deal

According to eturbonews, Kenya Airways has signed a revised and expanded codeshare agreement with fellow SkyTeam member China Southern.
 The deal will become operational on 1 August and will cover an expanded list of destinations for Kenya Airways passengers, who fly from or via Nairobi to Guangzhou.
With one ticket and checked baggage, KQ passengers can now continue to key Australian destinations such as Perth, Sydney and Melbourne, as well as the central Chinese city of Wuhan, which will be served on China Southern flights from Bangkok.
 In turn, China Southern passengers will be able to fly via Nairobi to Lusaka, Lagos and Johannesburg.

KQ to Begin Abu Dhabi Flights in July

According to gulfbusiness.com, Kenya Airways will begin three-times weekly flights between Abu Dhabi and Nairobi from 2 July.
 Flights are scheduled to depart the UAE capital at 19h25 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The service, on B737-800 aircraft, will be operated in conjunction with Etihad, following the signing of a reciprocal codeshare agreement in February. 
Kenya Airways is already placing its KQ code on Etihad’s daily service from Nairobi to Abu Dhabi, whilst Etihad is placing its EY code on Kenya Airways flights from Nairobi to 27 destinations across KQ’s African network.

Codeshare for Air Seychelles and SAA

South African Airways has signed a codeshare agreement with Air Seychelles. The first phase of the agreement will see South African Airways place its ‘SA’ code on Air Seychelles’ non-stop flights between Johannesburg and Seychelles. South African Airways will also place its code on flights between the two largest islands of Seychelles, Mahé and Praslin, subject to approval. Following the launch of the partnership between the airlines, they will look into expanding the agreement to include Air Seychelles placing its 'HM' code on South African Airways’ non-stop flights between Johannesburg and destinations across South Africa. The deal follows a strategic move by Air Seychelles to increase its connectivity throughout South Africa and continental Africa. Ticket sales are set to open on 29 April, for travel from April 30. In March, Air Seychelles introduced an enhanced schedule and additional weekly service on its Johannesburg route, bringing the flights to three return services per week with daytime departures and arrivals.