Jet reviews flight plans for Shanghai, London

Mumbai: India’s largest private airline, Jet Airways (India) Ltd, is considering discontinuing its Mumbai-Shanghai-San Francisco and Amritsar-London flights because of poor response from passengers, according to a company executive, who is familiar with the development. The person asked he not be named because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
The executive added the company is yet to decide the dates when it will stop these flights, but would probably first reduce their frequency and then stop them altogether.
The airline will, however, continue to connect Mumbai to San Francisco through London, this executive said.
Jet Airways’ chief executive officer Wolfgang Prock-Schauer was not available for comment despite several attempts to reach him and messages left at his office.
In response to a query from Mint on the termination of flights on these routes, a Jet Airways statement said: “Globally, all airlines constantly evaluate performance of their routes. Especially in these difficult times, we are constantly reviewing the performances of all our routes.”
The company neither confirmed nor denied that it planned to end flights on the routes concerned.
The first Indian private airline to be allowed to operate on international routes, Jet began its international flights in March 2004. Rival Kingfisher Airlines Ltd started its in September 2008. Apart from competition from foreign carriers, Indian airlines flying international routes have to cope with a general slowing in the business and the economic environment and the weight of significant accumulated losses of their operations back home.
01/10/08 P.R. Sanjai/Livemint

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