Jet Airways flights to Bangkok, London, Singapore

Cargo brings 67% of the airline's revenues

BY A CORRESPONDENT
April 17, 2006

Jet Airways has big plans for flying overseas. Jet is readying new flights to Bangkok, London and Singapore.

Jet Airways already has a Mumbai-London service and the second flight is expected to take off in June. A third flight from Delhi to London Heathrow is also on the cards. Permission to start a flight to Bangkok is also awaited.

Jet is expected to start the Bakgkok flight from Kokata, a route which may bring it "religious traffic" besides having the advantage of being closer to Thailand. The Delhi-Singapore flight may be started by December of this year.

Jet Airways also said that the airline is now earning about 67% of its revenues from cargo operations. Jet's outgoing COO Peter Luethi said that from Chennai itself, the airline carried about 66 tonnes of cargo every day. Cargo is carried on 53 aircraft on 307 daily flights, he added.