New Delhi/Mumbai: Jet Airways has added flights from Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Bangalore to Abu Dhabi and rescheduled some of its local flights in the upcoming summer schedule, to feed maximum traffic on to its partner Etihad's global network. In May, Jet is also starting a direct flight to Paris from Mumbai, in addition to the code-share connections it gives with Etihad and other partners.
It flies to destinations such as Toronto and Newark via Brussels and is also looking to start flights to Australia, taking on national carrier Air India, who recently started flights to Sydney and Melbourne. The summer schedule lasts from April-September, while the rest of the year falls under the winter schedule.
Both airlines have been building a network to beat its formidable rival Emirates Airlines. Experts, however, say that wouldn't be so easy. "Jet and Etihad together may match Etihad's connectivity out of India but the Gulf carrier will take a while to match its rival's (Emirates') global connectivity," said an industry watcher who didn't want to be named.
26/03/14 Debabrata Das & Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
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It flies to destinations such as Toronto and Newark via Brussels and is also looking to start flights to Australia, taking on national carrier Air India, who recently started flights to Sydney and Melbourne. The summer schedule lasts from April-September, while the rest of the year falls under the winter schedule.
Both airlines have been building a network to beat its formidable rival Emirates Airlines. Experts, however, say that wouldn't be so easy. "Jet and Etihad together may match Etihad's connectivity out of India but the Gulf carrier will take a while to match its rival's (Emirates') global connectivity," said an industry watcher who didn't want to be named.
26/03/14 Debabrata Das & Anirban Chowdhury/Economic Times
