Konnect may get Jet’s non-profitable routes

Jet Airways plans to discontinue flying on non-profitable metro routes and plans to replace these routes with its newly launched all-economy service Jet Airways Konnect.
The private airline, which lost its leadership position in terms of occupancy to its domestic rival Kingfisher Airlines in past few months mainly due to cut in business class travel by companies, is taking all possible measures to regain its market share and increase the profitability of its flights.
The company has identified routes across the country on which the full service carrier, Jet Airways, operates and has seen a significant decline in occupancy.
“We have identified certain routes, but are not ready to divulge more,” Sudheer Raghavan, chief operating officer, Jet Airways, told Financial Chronicle. He said that Jet Airways Konnect had seen a 25 per cent uplift in passenger on average per flight compared with the full service carrier. The all-economy service completed one month of operation on June 7.
Raghavan said that any route where the company had seen significant preference for a low-fare option was a candidate for Jet Konnect. “It is a flexible and rapidly deployable solution,” he added.
At present, Konnect connects metros such as Mumbai-Chennai, Chennai-Bangalore, Bangalore-Hyderabad, Kolkata-Bangalore and Mumbai-Ahmedabad, other than flights between metros and non-metros.
07/06/09 Rupesh Janve/mydigitalfc.com

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