Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will commence daily flights from Sharjah to Thiruvananthapuram from 30th October, 2011. The airline currently operates a daily flight from Sharjah to Kochi and the addition of another daily service will further enhance its growing International network. This will be the tenth daily service from the United Arab Emirates to India and the twenty-second Jet Airways flight from the Gulf to India.
The flight 9W 569 will depart Sharjah at 1340 hours (LT), arriving in Thiruvananthapuram at 1900 hours (LT) and flight 9W 570 will depart Thiruvananthapuram at 1015 hours local time (LT) and arrive in Sharjah at 1240 hours (LT).
The airline will deploy its state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft on this new route, offering 16 Premiere and 138 Economy seats. Guests will be offered best-in-its-class product, which boasts of warm service, award winning in-flight entertainment, as well as delectable cuisine. Jet Airways currently operates to 24 International destinations.
With this additional flight between Sharjah and India, business customers of Jet Airways would be able to enjoy a wide choice of timings throughout the day between United Arab Emirates and India. The flights are conveniently timed to connect with Jet Airways’ industry-leading domestic network and its fast-growing network to SAARC/ASEAN points.
The introduction of the new flight will further strengthen Jet Airways’ presence in the United Arab Emirates. Jet Airways’ Gulf network now serves 10 destinations in the Middle Eastern region. The additional services to Thiruvananthapuram will now complement the airline’s existing daily Gulf operations from Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Dubai, Doha, Kuwait, Muscat and Sharjah, as well as Jeddah, Riyadh and Dammam to Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kochi.
“Jet Airways has established itself as a prominent brand in the intensely competitive Indo-Gulf sector for its service and quality of its in-flight product. We are confident that the new service from Thiruvananthapuram to Sharjah will prove immensely popular with our guests. We believe that this new route has the potential to serve the needs of our corporate and business travelers, especially from the South,” Nikos Kardassis, CEO, Jet Airways said.
Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect and JetLite have a combined fleet strength of 115 aircraft and operate over 580 flights daily. With an average fleet age of 5.45years, the airline has one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world.
Flights to 75 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond, including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London(Heathrow), Milan, Muscat, New York(both JFK and Newark), Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Toronto.