"Jet Airways comes to US as a Premier-Class Contender"

Washington: With Jet Airways introducing its first service in the United States on Sunday, the New York Times has featured it in a special report saying the Indian airline makes its case as a "premier-class contender".
"Better than Singapore, better than Cathay and at least as good as Emirates."
"That was how Naresh Goyal stated his goal that the Indian carrier Jet Airways be rated among the top premier-class service in the world in a few years," said Joe Sharkey in his "On The Road" column on Tuesday.
"Goyal does present an interesting case," he said noting "most Americans have never heard of Jet Airways, the airline he founded in India 14 years ago as a domestic carrier and began building into an international player. That will change."
Jet Airways will operate a daily flight between Newark (New Jersey) and Mumbai with a stopover at the airline's new hub in Brussels with one of 10 new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft it ordered as part of a $3.7 billion international fleet expansion. The expansion will add 20 777s and Airbus A330s to the fleet. The airline also has orders for 10 new Boeing 787s.
In the United States, much of the attention in the premium markets has been on trans-Atlantic service, as airlines like United and American spruce up business-class cabins to try to compete with top-tier carriers like British Airways and Virgin Atlantic, as well as the start-up all business-class airlines like Eos, the Times said.
Foreign airlines like Singapore Airlines and Cathay Pacific Airways, meanwhile, have set the standards for premium-class travel between the United States and Asia, and have a major chunk of the international premium-class market in India.
01/08/07 Arun Kumar/Indo-Asian News Service/Hindustan Times

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