Jet Airways Strengthens its Regional Hold

Tuesday, 23rd July 2013 at 04:15am

Jet Airways has announced recently that it will launch additional flights to and from regional destinations in the country.

Beginning July 25, 2013, the airline will launch daily flights between the cities of Bengaluru and Vijayawada in the south. It will also add frequency to its Bengaluru-Mangalore service by twice daily and an afternoon flight to Trichy. The latter service will have a stopover at Kochi six days per week.

The additional frequency between Bengaluru and Mangalore will bring its total flights daily to five and thrice daily between Bengaluru and Kochi.

The airline will utilize its fleet of ATR72-500 to serve these routes. In its Bengaluru-Vijayawada route, the 9W 2461 flight will leave Bengaluru early in the morning at 0610 hours, arriving at Vijayawada at 0745 hours. The return flight 9W 2462 will leave Vijayawada at 0815 hours and will arrive at Bengaluru one hour and 35 minutes later.

The Bengaluru-Mangalore route will be serviced by flights 9W 2463/2464 six days a week, with the onward flight leaving Bengaluru every morning and the return flight will leave Mangalore shortly.

The flight 9W 2649, meanwhile, will leave Bengaluru in the evening at 2100 hrs and will arrive in Mangalore one hour and 5 minutes later. The return flight 9W 2650 will depart Mangalore at 2235 hrs and will touch down in Bengaluru at 2340 hrs.

Another flight, 9W 2463, will leave Bengaluru much later in the evening at 1020 hrs and scheduled to arrive in Mangalore at 1125 hrs. The return flight, 9W 2464, will depart at 1155 hrs for Bengaluru. These flights operate daily except Tuesday.

The Bengaluru-Kochi-Trichy route will be serviced by flights 9W 2645/ 9W 2646 once daily except Tuesday. The onward flight, 9W 2645, will leave Bengaluru in early afternoon at 1350 hrs, arriving Kochi at 1520 hrs and leave shortly after and will finally arrive in Trichy, its final destination, at 1650 hrs. The return flight, 9W 2646, will depart Trichy at 1720 hrs, arrive in Kochi at 1820 hrs, leaving shortly later at 1850 hrs and arrive in Bengaluru at 2020 hrs.

The Tuesday service will skip Trichy and the flights operate between Bengaluru and Kochi only, with the onward flight, 9W 2645, leaving Bengaluru in mid-afternoon at 1550 hrs. It will arrive in Kochi at 1720 hrs, depart shortly back to Bengaluru at 1750 hrs.

According to JetAirways' Chief Commercial Officer, Sudheer Raghavan, the airline is looking forward to strong demand in air travel among Indians as disposable incomes increase, especially in Tier II and Tier III cities. The additional frequency between Bengaluru and the southern cities of Mangalore, Trichy and Vijayawada will hopefully encourage residents to travel by air.

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