Jet Airways boosts flights in Winter schedule

India’s Jet Airways and Jet Airways Konnect, its all-economy service, has introduced 46 new flights across India as part of its winter schedule which commenced on Monday.

In addition to the launch of new flights on existing sectors, the airline has introduced services on nine additional sectors across India, with immediate effect. Jet Airways Konnect will inaugurate a daily service on the tenth sector, Aurangabad - Pune, effective 1 March 2011.

The airline will introduce direct services between Vishakhapatnam and three important Indian metros- Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad. It will also connect Delhi with Bhopal and Ahmedabad, and Aurangabad with Pune.

Nikos Kardassis, CEO, Jet Airways, said, “With domestic air traffic, particularly business travel, on an upswing, there has been a strong up-shift in demand towards twin-cabin services on several routes. The introduction of Jet Airways’ Premiere and Konnect Select products on these new routes, in addition to the introduction of new services on existing domestic routes, is in response to this, and we are confident that they will prove extremely popular with guests.”

JetLite, Jet Airways’ all-economy subsidiary, has introduced 30 new domestic flights, including the launch of its services on eight additional sectors across India.

The airline will connect Mumbai and Hyderabad with Raipur. Nagpur with Bengaluru, Delhi and Indore respectively. JetLite will also connect Delhi with Pune and Chandigarh, and launch a daily service between Bengaluru and Chandigarh.

Nikos Kardassis, said, “JetLite offers guests a compelling value offering with a superb inflight product, class leading on-time performance and warm service, all at extremely competitive fares. As such, the introduction of these new routes is in keeping with the strong demand for a quality all-economy service, as JetLite provides, on these routes.”