Jet eyes Africa in global push

Mumbai: Jet Airways has put its overseas expansion plan back on track. The country’s largest private airline has revised its earlier plan and will use two A330s, to be delivered in December, on India-Saudi Arabia route. Confirming this, Jet Airways chief commercial officer Sudheer Raghavan told ET: “We are considering Africa and we aim to increase our presence in Asia. We need the new aircraft for our international operations.”
An analyst said that Jet Airways, which is aggressively expanding on short-haul international routes and increasing frequencies on domestic routes, will On Monday, Jet launched its daily direct flight between Thiruvananthapuram and Muscat. It has now three daily services to Muscat from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Mumbai and connects six destinations in the Gulf (Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Dubai) from Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai and Delhi. It has expanded its domestic network with three new daily flights from Hyderabad, Goa and Pune.
Jet has lined up deliveries of 30 737NG over next few years indicating that its expansion plan is on schedule. Of the 30 aircraft, 10 will join the JetLite fleet. Also, five 777-300ER and five A330-200 will be inducted into its fleet by 2011. Jet Airways operates a fleet of 85 aircraft, which includes 10 Boeing 777-300 ER, 10 Airbus A330-200, 54 classic and next generation Boeing 737 400/700/800/900 and 11 modern ATR 72-500 turboprop.
16/09/08 Mithun Roy/Economic Times

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