Jet set to fly Madrid, Birmingham, Geneva

New Delhi: Jet Airways is all set to spread its wings to three new foreign destinations—Birmingham, Madrid and Geneva. The airlines has received the government’s permission to fly on these sectors even as Kingfisher and SpiceJet await the empowered group of ministers (EGoM) decision on whether or not to lower the requirement for flying on international routes to three years of domestic experience.
“We have agreed to grant Jet Airways the traffic rights to operate on India-United Kingdom, India-Spain and India-Switzerland route via Brussels under code-sharing agreement with Brussels Airlines,” a senior official in the ministry of civil aviation told ET.
Jet will be operating the flights via Brussels under a code-sharing agreement with Brussels Airlines. International routes are lucrative for domestic airlines as the sector is experiencing a 16% growth with better profit margin. The traffic on the India-UK route is growing even faster at 60-70%, say experts.
22/08/07 Nirbhay Kumar/Economic Times

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Categories: Foreign Aug 2007, Jet Airways Aug 2007