Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, today introduced “The Great Première Experience” on its domestic flights for Première travel. Aimed at providing exceptional value to its guests, The Great Première Experience will offer a unique opportunity for all its guests to enjoy the airlines globally renowned business class product at attractive unbeatable fares.

 The three day special fare offer will be available for sale across India effective June 8 to 10, 2015 and for travel from June 20, 2015 onwards. Guest can enjoy an unbeatable 25% discount on all Première fares and will be valid for travel only on direct flights on the airline’s domestic network.

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As global crude oil prices continue to rise, the price of aviation turbine fuel (ATF) has become dearer by 7.5 per cent and rates of non-subsidised cooking gas (LPG) by Rs 10.50 per cylinder.  The price of jet fuel in the national capital was raised by Rs 3,744.08 per kilolitre (kl) to Rs 53,353.92, nearly 7.5 per cent. Last month, ATF price was hiked by a marginal Rs 272 per kl to Rs 49,609.84. Jet fuel constitutes over 40 per cent of an airline’s operating costs and the price cut will reduce the financial burden on cash-strapped carriers.
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Jet Airways India Ltd today announced a special four-day offer on international flights for Premiere and Economy travel, stated a release. Under the offer, which is effective till June 4, and valid for travel from September 14, 2015 onwards, passengers will get discounts of up to 30 per cent on base fares.

These special fares are on offer for travel onboard Jet Airways’ operated international flights to destinations in the Gulf, SAARC, ASEAN, Europe, USA and Canada. This offer is also valid for travel in conjunction with Etihad flights over Abu Dhabi gateway for Middle East, Europe and North America, stated a release.

Raj Sivakumar - Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways, said, “Jet Airways’ guests can now avail of this very attractive global fares offer to plan their international travel in advance, given the flexibility and long-term validity. We are indeed pleased to offer our guests a choice of over 140 international destinations onboard Jet Airways’ flights and that of its partner airlines. We are confident that this will prove to be extremely popular with our guests given its un-matched value and benefits.”
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NEW DELHI: Private carrier Jet Airways today operated three flights to Kathmandu, two from Delhi and one from Mumbai while transporting 2,600 kg of relief material to the earthquake-devastated Nepalese capital Kathmandu.

 The airline also said that it has flown over 1,500 stranded people back to India since April 25, when a high intensity earthquake, measuring 7.9 on Richter scale flattened buildings in Nepal.

 The relief material comprised medical equipment, surgical suits, tents, food and water, it said.

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NEW DELHI: Jet Airways, which plans to enhance its services on the US routes, may ask its strategic investment partner Etihad to return two of its Boeing-777 planes which are currently on lease with the Gulf-based carrier.

The private carrier has leased out seven wide-bodied planes to Etihad, which holds 24 per cent stake in Jet Airways, including five Boeing 777-300 ERs which are used for ultra long-haul operations.

"Jet Airways may ask Etihad to return two of the five Boeing 777s, which it has leased to the Gulf partner," sources said here.

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NEW DELHI: The Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet Airways would soon draw up plans to expand in the US skies following the restoration

last week by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) of India's aviation safety rating to Category-1, sources have said.

The airline would also take on board its strategic investment partner Etihad while carrying out the exercise to avoid any "cannibalisation" of routes, they said.

Jet Airways currently operates a daily direct service from New Delhi to Newark while Etihad, which holds a 24 per cent stake in Goyal's airline, flies to six US cities.

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MUMBAI: Jet AirwaysBSE Friday said it has expanded the scope of its codeshare agreements with Garuda Indonesia and Vietnam Airlines, the flag carriers of Indonesia and Vietnam.

The airline will place its code (9W) on Garuda Indonesia flights operating between Singapore and Bali Denpasar.

Passengers travelling on both Jet and Garuda will be able to fly between various points on connecting flights operated by the carriers effective April 20, 2015. Jet's current code share with Garuda entails flights Singapore and Jakarta.

Similarly, Jet will place its code on Vietnam Airlines' flights operating between Singapore and Phu Quoc Island and vice versa effective April 15, 2015. This is in addition to the existing codeshare flights between Bangkok, Hong Kong, Singapore and Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam.
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Jet Airways has entered into a codeshare agreement with airberlin from 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 eighth 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.”

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NEW DELHI: General and business aviation operators have urged the Government to put in place separate regulations for the Scheduled Commuter Airlines (SCA) before finalising the much-awaited new aviation policy.

Besides, the operators have also sought from the civil aviation ministry to issue guidelines for code sharing between SCA and scheduled airlines.

"The requirement to prepare separate regulations (Civil Aviation Requirement) for Scheduled Commuter Airlines should be put in place before the new policy is implemented," Business Aircraft Operators Association (BAOA) said in its response to the Government's draft remote connectivity policy.

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NEW DELHI: Private carrier Jet AirwaysBSE 4.23 % today launched daily international flights to Abu Dhabi from Pune, Ahmedabad and Mangalore.

It is the first time that Jet Airways has offered international flights from Ahmedabad and Pune, a release said.

The airline will deploy a 178-seater Boeing 737-800 Next Generation (NG) aircraft, with 12 seats in premiere class and 156 seats in economy class to service the three new routes, it said.

Jet Airways chief executive Cramer Ball had last week said that the airline would enhance 11 per cent additional flights on the overseas routes while the domestic sector would see five per more flights during the summer schedule.

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NEW DELHI: Jet AirwaysBSE 0.27 % plans to increase flights on both its domestic and international networks, along with launching new services from three cities to its Abu Dhabi hub during the summer schedule that kicks off in three days.

 "We are increasing 5% capacity on our domestic routes and another 11% on the international from the summer schedule," Jet Airways CEO Cramer Ball told the media on the sidelines of an aviation summit organised by ET on Thursday.

He said that the airline also plans to launch new flight services to Abu Dhabi from Pune, Mangalore and Ahmedabad as part of its summer schedule. Connecting these Indian cities to the world through Abu Dhabi is part of the carrier's plan to connect 26 cities in India.

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NEW DELHI: Private carrier Jet AirwaysBSE 2.40 % will launch a dedicated freighter service on both national and international routes, including Bangalore, Hong Kong and Singapore from next month.

The airline will commence these services with an Airbus A330-200 freighter aircraft, which has been wet-leased from Jet Airways investment partner Etihad, the airline said in a release today.

The government had recently accorded in-principle approval to Jet Airways to lease the aircraft from the Gulf carrier.

Under a wet lease arrangement, a lessor leases an aircraft with crew insurance and maintenance services to the lessee.
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NEW DELHI: Private carrier Jet AirwaysBSE 3.94 % will launch tomorrow two new flights to Doha from Kozhikode and Thiruvananthapuram, which will provide greater connectivity to the Gulf region.

The new flights, to be operated on the Thiruvananthapuram- Doha and Kozhikode-Doha sectors, will initially fly three days a week and then from June 1 they would be converted into daily services, Jet Airways said in a release today.

The airlines also said it has introduced special fares for the new sectors, which will operated with 168-seater Boeing 737-800 Next Generation aircraft, having 12 seats in premiere and 156 seats in economy class.

"Currently Jet Airways operates four daily flights to Doha (two from Mumbai and one each from Delhi and Kochi) and with the launch of these two new flights, it would now connect three cities of Kerala including Kochi with the Gulf country, the airline said.

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MUMBAI: Income Tax (IT) authorities have slapped prosecution notice on Naresh Goyal-promoted Jet Airways for TDS (Tax Deduction at Source)payments default, official sources said today.

The notice was served to the Mumbai-headquartered airline after tax men said they have detected "several irregularties" in the TDS payments by the private carrier.

"We have issued prosecution notice to Jet Airways for TDS default for the previous three fiscals-2008, 2009 and 2010 as well as for the on-going financial year," the sources said.

These notices are apart from the two notices issued to Jet Airways earlier for delay in TDS payments during 2013 and 2014, they said.
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MUMBAI: Jet AirwaysBSE -2.62 % on Wednesday announced discounts of up to 35% on base fares of its international flights, making way for another bonanza for holidayers this year. Bookings under the seven-day offer are open till March 3 with travel validity up to December 12.

For instance, a Mumbai-Singapore return base fare comes to Rs 1,370. In comparison, IndiGo's one way base fare for a Mumbai-Singapore flight in July comes to Rs 8,198. However interestingly, IndiGo is charging taxes and surcharges ofRs 14,329 while Jet is charging Rs 18,897.

The offer is also valid on long haul flights via its hub in Abu Dhabi and includes flights shared with its strategic partner Etihad Airways.

For instance, on a Delhi-Toronto Etihad operated flight, the return bas fare comes to Rs 14,420 while for Lufthansa it comes to Rs 37,100. However, here again Etihad is charging taxes and surcharges of Rs 48,931 while Lufthansa is charging Rs 39,299.
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MUMBAI: Private carrier Jet AirwaysBSE 0.96 % has started testing mobile boarding passes on select flights from the Bengaluru airport, the airline said in a statement today.

The airline said the pilot project has been kicked off on select flights from Bengaluru to Mumbai and New Delhi from February 12.

To facilitate the process, the Naresh Goyal-led airline has entered into a partnership with the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security of India and the Bengaluru international airport, it said in a statement today.

During this trial phase, a passenger can use the barcoded boarding pass on the mobile phone to enter the airport and after the security checks can board the flight, and that the Bengaluru airport has already installed mobile boarding pass scanners at the entrance, security check-points and at the boarding gates.

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