Jet to suspend flights from Ahmedabad to London

Mumbai: Facing poor passenger response, Jet Airways is planning to suspend international flights to London’s Heathrow airport from Ahmedabad after mid-January.
Malaysia Airlines has recently pulled out flights to Kuala Lumpur from Ahmedabad because of the same ­reason.
Jet is operating three flights a week from Ahmedabad. The airlines opened this route in March, targeting the Gujarati and non-resident Indian community staying in the UK.
“We will withdraw Ahmedabad-London flights from 15 January and will deploy this capacity into Amritsar-London route,” said Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, chief executive officer of Jet. “The passenger load factor of Amritsar is comparatively better than Ahmedabad,” he added.
Prock-Schauer said the airline will route passengers for the UK from Ahmedabad through Mumbai as it is the closest airport for them.
30/11/07 P.R. Sanjai/Livemint

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