Indian telco Bharti Airtel said on Monday that it has landed the SEA-ME-WE 6 subsea cable in Chennai, two months after establising the cable system’s first Indian landing point in Mumbai.
The codeshare will see Air India, which operates daily Dreamliner flights from Delhi to Sydney and Melbourne, add its code to Virgin flights allowing onward connections to 16 cities across Australia and New Zealand.
The competition and consumer watchdog, which granted an interim authorisation to the deal last year that has allowed Virgin and Qatar Airways to sell tickets on the flights, believes the arrangement is “likely to result in public benefits and is unlike…
