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India’s Indigo, Qatar Airways May Soon Announce Strategic Deal
India’s largest airline, IndiGo, and Qatar Airways will make a strategic business announcement on Thursday, which media reports said would involve a codeshare agreement in which they publish and market the same flights under both airlines’ names.
IndiGo shares, which rose as much as five percent early in the day, pared those gains to trade up one percent in the afternoon.
Qatar has shown interest in investing in IndiGo, but the Indian airline has resisted.
“We are very interested in IndiGo … We are talking to IndiGo of doing codeshare, joint flights but not yet an equity stake in the airline,” Qatar Airways chief executive, Akbar al-Baker, told Reuters in an interview in August.
CEO al-Baker said his company had talked to IndiGo, but the airline was “not yet ready to take a foreign investor”. When it is ready, Qatar Airways would be interested, he had said at the time.
Television news channels, citing other agencies, said on Tuesday that Qatar Airways was not looking at a stake purchase in IndiGo.
Any deal, however, would come at a time when IndiGo’s two cofounders, Rakesh Gangwal and Rahul Bhatia, have been embroiled in a dispute about corporate governance of the airline, sparking concern among investors that this could have an impact on the airline’s valuation and strategy.
IndiGo, which has about 40 percent share of the domestic Indian market, is planning an aggressive push into more international destinations.
The airline’s chief executive, Ronojoy Dutta, issued a joint statement with al-Baker of Qatar Airways in which they said they would “talk about the vision and future for both the airlines”.
Last week, IndiGo placed a historic order for 300 Airbus A320neo family planes, including the newest jet, a long-range version of the single-aisle A320neo family called the A321XLR.
IndiGo flies to 60 international destinations, including Turkey, China, Vietnam, Myanmar and Saudi Arabia, which it added this year.
SOURCE : TIMESKUWAIT
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