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Lufthansa Group and Air India: Closer Ties to Build on EU-India Free Trade Agreement

Lufthansa Group and Air India announced a joint business agreement (JBA), the first airline‑to‑airline JBA since Lufthansa’s 2017 partnership with Singapore Airlines. The deal deepens an existing codeshare and Star Alliance relationship by integrating network planning, joint sales, marketing, schedule coordination and loyalty programmes. It is timed to leverage the newly concluded EU‑India free‑trade agreement, which is expected to stimulate demand on the under‑penetrated Europe‑India corridor. Both carriers view the partnership as a strategic move to capture growing passenger traffic between the two regions.