Jet Airways, India's premier international airline, has entered into a codeshare agreement with airberlin, Germany's second largest airline effective April 2015.

This development will see Jet Airways placing its code (9W) on airberlin's (AB) daily flights to Berlin (TXL) and Dusseldorf (DUS) from gateway point Abu Dhabi. Jet Airways operates 12 daily services to Abu Dhabi from 11 Indian cities.

Raj Sivakumar, chief commercial officer, Jet Airways, said, ''We are pleased to commence our codeshare partnership with airberlin, offering our guests convenient flight connections to Berlin and Dusseldorf via Abu Dhabi. With Germany established as India's largest trading partner in Europe and 8th largest foreign investor in India, we are confident that these flights will prove to be popular amongst travellers between India and Germany, not only for business purposes but tourism as well.''

Shares of the company gained Rs 0.7, or 0.14%, to settle at Rs 488.80. The total volume of shares traded was 181,070 at the BSE (Wednesday).