Jet Airways to add 7 new aircraft this fiscal, fly new routes

New Delhi: With air traffic growing at a healthy pace, Indian carriers are once again looking to add capacities. Jet Airways, India’s biggest airline, plans to acquire 6-7 new narrow body aircraft this fiscal.
These aircraft would be deployed on domestic and select international routes in such a way that the domestic leg is completed during day time and international destinations (nearby countries) can be serviced at night.
In the next three years the airline plans to add as many as 24 aircraft but some of these additions would be through replacements under sale and leaseback. Airline officials said that the 6-7 narrow bodies for this year would be completely new additions. With new aircraft coming in, can new destinations be far behind? Jet has already received traffic rights for a daily service between Mumbai and Manila in the Philippines and is expected to launch this during the upcoming winter schedule. Besides, a daily Delhi-Amsterdam service is also on the agenda from this winter.
Officials said the Manila flight will also offer enhanced connectivity to Gulf countries and so Jet plans to simultaneously increase frequencies of its flights to the Gulf region, too.
01/06/11 Sindhu Bhattacharya/Daily News & Analysis

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