Jet Airways may start Mumbai-Shanghai-San Francisco next month

Jet Airways is likely to get permission to begin its Mumbai-Shanghai-San Francisco daily flight with the Indian government clearing the proposal of China's Great Wall cargo airline to fly to Mumbai and Chennai.
"I am hopeful and optimistic that the proposal would be now cleared," Commerce and Industry Ministry Kamal Nath told journalists in the presence of Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal after the India-China Trade and Investment Summit at the China World Hotel.

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Jet gets China’s nod
Beijing: Jet Airways has received
clearance from China to fly to San
Francisco via Shanghai.Speaking
on this, Goyal said it is a great
honour for him, his airlines and his
country.With this approval, Jet will
soon begin a Mumbai-Shanghai-San
Francisco flight.
14/01/08 Barkha Butt/NDTV.com
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If this happens, Jet would become the first non-Chinese airline to use a Chinese hub as a transit to a third country. Jet had been keen to make Shanghai its hub for operations in the Asia-Pacific region just as it has made Brussels its European hub.
Goyal told IANS that the airline hopes to start flights to Shanghai from New Delhi in the near future as well to take advantage of the growing traffic between the two countries.
The government had been sitting over the proposal of Great Wall airline after it was blacklisted by the US for allegedly transshipping nuclear material to Iran.
14/01/08 Indo-Asian News Service/Hindustan Times

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