JetLite gets clearance for Amritsar-Bangkok operations

New Delhi: The Government has given permission to JetLite Airline to start regular operations between Amritsar and Bangkok. While confirming this development, official sources told Business Line that the airline plans to offer a low-cost alternative for passengers wanting to fly between the two cities.
The launch of this flight will be the airline’s first international operation after Air Sahara was taken over by Jet Airways earlier this year and renamed JetLite.
While company officials were tightlipped on when the operations would begin, sources said that JetLite has been asked to start during the winter schedule 2007-08. Globally, the winter schedule of airlines runs for about five months beginning from October end and finishing at the end of March the following year. The start of operations would see JetLite’s international network increase as the airline currently operates flights to Kathmandu and Colombo. The airline has also applied to the Government to operate flights to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Muscat, Bahrain and Kuwait, the airline’s Chief Executive, Mr Garry Kingshott, had told presspersons in October.
16/12/07 Ashwini Phadnis/Business Line

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