After US east coast, Jet looks to connect with Pacific coast cities

New Delhi: After having connected key cities on the US east coast as part of its expanding international operations in the past six months, India’s largest airline group by passengers carried, Jet Airways (India) Ltd, will next focus on connecting the Pacific coast of the US including Los Angeles and San Francisco through this year.
Given the excess capacity in the domestic airline market, which saw three acquisitions through fiscal 2008, Jet has earmarked a 40% growth of its international business compared with a domestic growth of 12-15% in fiscal 2009. National Aviation Co. of India Ltd-run Air India, the country’s largest international carrier, flies to more than two dozen international cities and Kingfisher Airlines Ltd too plans to make good use of the 10 new wide-body aircraft it inducts this financial year.
In the last fortnight alone, the civil aviation ministry approved two other key permissions sought by the airline. Jet has been granted rights to fly to Shanghai, after negotiations with the Chinese aviation authorities, and connect San Francisco with daily flights; and fly to Hong Kong and connect either Los Angeles or San Francisco.
01/04/08 Tarun Shukla/Livemint

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