Jet plans to add new planes
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With air traffic growing at a healthy pace, Indian carriers are once again looking to add capacities, a report said.Jet Airways, India’s biggest airline, plans to acquire 6-7 new narrow body aircraft this fiscal year, Daily News and Analysis reported. 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,the report said. It said ther airline planned to add as many as 24 aircraft in the next three years but some of these additions would be through replacements under sale and leaseback. Airline officials were quoted saying that the 6-7 narrow bodies for this year would be completely new additions. With new aircraft coming in, the report speculated that a daily service between Mumbai and Mainla could be launched during the upcoming winter schedule. Besides, a daily Delhi-Amsterdam service was also on the agenda from this winter, the report said.According to officials, the Manila flight would also offer enhanced connectivity to Gulf countries and so Jet plans to simultaneously increase frequencies of its flights to the Gulf region, too.”There are no new flights to either Europe or North America for now. But the Manila daily service will provide good connectivity to Gulf passengers. We plan to add 2-3 flights daily to the Gulf region this winter, where we already do 12-15 flights a day,” officials were quoted saying.Meanwhile, the airline has already begun daily flights to Milan from Delhi and is expected to soon receive permission to get into code-share agreements with Italian carrier Alitalia to use the latter’s network for providing onward connections to other European cities and to North America. The report said with permission granted, Jet was expected to begin a daily service to Rome, too.Jet’s international expansion comes just when competitors such as Kingfisher Airlines and low-cost carrier IndiGo are gearing up to fly to more overseas destinations, the report said. Kingfisher and IndiGo have recently been permitted to launch flights to Colombo from destinations other than Chennai; and IndiGo has been awarded permission to go to Singapore
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