Jet Airways slashes ticket fares in spring sale

Jet Airways hopes to boost lean season sales with "Mega Sale", announces new flights

BY A CORRESPONDENT
February 4, 2006

Jet Airways has announced a "Mega Sale" to mark the onset of the spring season. Passengers travelling from February 21 and April 10 can avail of this offer as 100,000 seats on flights across 86 sectors can be booked at a much cheaper rate. Bookings for this period can be finalised between January 31 and February 8, either through travel agents or on the website www.jetairways.com. The offer is subject to availability of seats.

Jet Airways has also announced that it will operate two direct flights between Bangalore-Thiruvananthapuram-Bangalore and Chennai-Thiruvananthapuram-Chennai sectors from Wednesday. The two new links are a response to the increased air traffic in and out of Kerala and would be operated by the 62-seater ATR72-500.

An early morning service from Pune to Bangalore and an evening service from Bangalore to Pune would be giving day-return facility for passengers from Pune. This is expected to aid business travellers in particular.

Passengers on the Bangalore-Mangalore-Bangalore, Bangalore-Goa-Bangalore and Bangalore-Kochi-Bangalore sectors in the South can also expect better service and options on their journey. These sectors have been upgraded to operate on a Boeing 737-700, which provides more seats. According to Jet Airways, the late evening Bangalore-Hyderabad-Bangalore flight operated by an ATR72-500 was the third frequency on this sector, and gave business travellers based in either city better options for same-day return to their destinations.