Jet Airways

Jet Airways Konnect Enhances Domestic Network, Effective March 28, 2010

Introduces Kochi-Bengaluru-Ahmedabad And Hyderabad-Chennai Port Blair Sectors

March 17, 2010: Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will enhance its domestic network, with the introduction of new services, as well as the enhancement of services on existing Konnect services on certain domestic routes.

Effective March 28, 2010, Jet Airways’ Konnect service will introduce daily flights on the Kochi - Bengaluru - Ahmedabad sectors, aboard its state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

From Monday to Saturday, flight 9W 2306 will daily depart Kochi at 0745 hrs, arriving in Bengaluru at 0845 hrs. Flight 9W 2306 will then depart Bengaluru at 0930 hrs, arriving in Ahmedabad at 1130 hrs.

On Sundays only, flight 9W 2306 will daily depart Kochi at 0745 hrs, arriving in Bengaluru at 0845 hrs. Flight 9W 2306 will then depart Bengaluru at 1000 hrs, arriving in Ahmedabad at 1200 hrs.

Flight 9W 2307 will daily depart Ahmedabad at 1500 hrs, arriving in Bengaluru at 1700 hrs. Flight 9W 2307 will then depart Bengaluru at 1740 hrs, arriving in Kochi at 1840 hrs.

Jet Airways Konnect will also introduce services on the Hyderabad-Chennai-Port Blair sectors, where it will operate five flights weekly (Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday), aboard its Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Flight 9W 2361 will depart Hyderabad at 0820 hrs, arriving in Chennai at 0925 hrs. Flight 9W 2362 will then depart Chennai at 1000 hrs, arriving in Port Blair at 1205 hrs.

Flight 9W 2363 will depart Port Blair at 1240 hrs, arriving in Chennai at 1440 hrs. Flight 9W 2364 will then depart Chennai at 1600 hrs, arriving in Hyderabad at 1710 hrs.

Effective March 28, 2010 Jet Airways’ Konnect service will also introduce a daily service between Mumbai and Nagpur, enhancing the frequency of services from the current four flights/week on the sector, as well as introduce its third service on the Mumbai-Indore sector.

Flight 9W 2020 will depart Mumbai at 1515 hrs, arriving in Nagpur at 1630 hrs. Flight 9W 2021 will depart Nagpur at 1705 hrs, arriving in Mumbai at 1820 hrs.

Flight 9W 2402 will depart Mumbai at 1230 hrs, arriving in Indore at 1350 hrs from Monday to Friday, and on Sundays. On Saturdays only, flight 9W 2402 will depart Mumbai at 1155 hrs, arriving in Indore at 1315 hrs.

Flight 9W 2018 will daily depart Indore at 1425 hrs, arriving in Mumbai at 1540 hrs.

According to Mr. Nikos Kardassis, CEO, Jet Airways, “Jet Airways’ Konnect services continue to remain extremely popular with guests, consistently registering high network-wide load factors. There has also been a demand for an enhancement of/ introduction of new Konnect services on some domestic routes, and the introduction of these flights is in keeping with the same.”

About Jet Airways
Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 89 aircraft, which includes 10 Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft, 12 Airbus A330-200 aircraft, 53 next generation Boeing 737-700/800/900 aircraft and 14 modern ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft. With an average fleet age of 4.66 years, the airline has one of the youngest aircraft fleet in the world.
 
Flights to 61 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond, including New York (both JFK and Newark), Toronto, Brussels, London (Heathrow), Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Bangkok, Kathmandu, Dhaka, Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah, Sharjah and Riyadh.
 
 
About Jet Airways Konnect 
Jet Airways Konnect is Jet Airways’ all-economy service on key domestic routes, designed to meet the needs of the low-fare segment with value-for-money fares.
 
Jet Airways Konnect links five major metros- Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru and Kolkata - with several destinations across India, operating over 195 flights daily.
 
Jet Airways and its all-economy, no-frills Jet Airways Konnect service together operates over 300 flights daily.
 
 
About JetLite 
JetLite is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jet Airways India Ltd. and was acquired by Jet Airways in April 2007. Positioned as an all-economy, no-frills airline, JetLite operates a fleet of 23 aircraft, which includes 16 Boeing 737 series and 7 Canadian Regional Jets 200 Series. The airline flies to 28 domestic destinations and 2 international destinations (Kathmandu and Colombo), operating over 110 flights a day, on average.
 
Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect, its all-economy, no-frills service, and JetLite have a combined fleet strength of 112 aircraft and operate over 410 flights daily.