Jet Airways

Estina Roy · Joined: 13 Mar 2008 Posts: 4

Jet Airways is an airline based in India, serving domestic and international routes. The airline operates over 250 flights to 44 destinations across the country, with the greater part of flights operated from Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai. At present it controls about 40% of India's aviation bazaar.

Background

Jet Airways was recognized on 5 May 1993 with a fleet of 4 Being 737-300 aircraft, with 24 daily flights helping 12 destinations.

Operations

Its 44 destinations include most of the big cities in India. Its worldwide destinations include Katmandu, Colombo, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur and London's Heathrow Airport. Jet Airways was the first personal airline of India to fly to international destinations. It was later connected by Air Sahara. The daily Delhi-London service started in October of that year.

Jet Airways and Air Sahara are the only personal airlines which survived the Indian business downturn of the 1990s. On January 19, 2006 Jet Airways announced that it is buying Air Sahara for $500 million. This is the major invasion in India's aviation history and the resulting airline will be the country's largest.

In 2006 Jet Airways will be expanding its route network from Delhi via the north Indian city of Amritsar, as it is to begin Amritsar-London and/or Amritsar-Birmingham.

arjun · Joined: 04 Feb 2008 Posts: 28

What cum benefits can be availed in jet airways????

Robert Davidson · Joined: 25 Feb 2008 Posts: 116

It operates over 355 not 250 daily flights to 43 not 44 destinations across the country and 15 overseas.
Jet Airways was integrated as an "air taxi" operator on 1 April 1992. It started commercial airline operations on 5 May 1993 with a fleet of 4 Boeing 737-300 aircraft. In January 1994 alter in the law enabled Jet Airways to be relevant for listed airline status, which was granted on 4 January 1995. It began global process to Sri Lanka in March 2004. Plans to obtain competitor Air Sahara, announced in January 2006, after some rough patches contract got through. The airline is possess by Tailwinds (owned by Naresh Goyal) (80%) and public shares (20%) and has 10,017 employees (at March 2007).
Naresh Goyal, who already owned Jet air (Private) Limited (which provided sales and marketing for foreign airlines in India) set up Jet Airways as a full-service scheduled airline that would give rivalry to state-owned Indian Airlines. Indian Airlines had enjoyed a control in the domestic market between 1953, when all major Indian air transport providers were nationalized under the Air Corporations Act (1953), and January 1994, when the Air Corporations Act was repealed, following which Jet Airways conventional scheduled airline status.

Jet airways company slogan is "Enjoy the flying". Day by day they are increasing their standard and services.

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