CHENNAI: Just as the Sabarimala pilgrim season is gaining momentum, a group of Ayyappa devotees were taken aback at the airporthere when they were reportedly not allowed to carry their irumudis (kit with offerings for the deity) on a Kochi flight by the Jet Airways staff. Santhanam, along with eight others, was all set to depart for his yearly pilgrimage by a flight at 6.55 am on Monday when the...
09:47 AM, Nov 22, 2011
Saroj Datta Age: 75 Career: He has been with the Jet Airways group since 1991. Prior to that was with Kuwait Airways and Air India Interests: Listening to Hindustani classical music, jazz, reading crime fiction and translations of Bengali classics Q You has spent two decades building India's largest airline. What were the turning points? Early in the life of the airline, the first call was about coming into the...
08:29 AM, Nov 19, 2011
Mumbai: Jet Airways has been declared the 'Best Domestic Airline' at the fifth edition of the CNBC Awaaz Travel Awards 2011. The award was presented by Union Minister for Tourism Subodh Kant Sahay to Jet Airways' Senior Vice President- Commercial, Gaurang Shetty, in New Delhi on Thursday. The travel awards recognise and honour the best in class destinations, organisations, infrastructure and service providers based on an objective study conducted by...
08:46 PM, Nov 18, 2011
New Delhi: After Kingfisher, which is facing financial crunch, now the Jet Airways has expressed the need to raise funds in order to pay off its debt. According to Jet Airways, the depreciation in rupee has impacted debt levels for the company. The current debt in books for Jet Airways stands at Rs 14000 crore. Jet Airways has, however, said that their debt would come down by Rs 1500 crore...
03:53 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: Ailing Kingfisher Airlines CEO Sanjay Agarwal put up a brave front on Friday and while speaking exclusively to Network 18 defended the flight cancellations as part of strategy. Agarwal said, "Cancellation of flights was a well thought, pre-determined plan. Cancelled flights on non-profitable routes and for reconfiguration of seats." Agarwal said that they had first planned to cancel flights for a shorter duration so thought need not be...
07:12 AM, Nov 12, 2011
Tiruchirappalli: A possible collision between a Jet Airways flight for Chennai and an Air India Express aircraft headed for Abudhabi was on Monday averted in Tiruchirappalli when ATC personnel scrambled quickly and alerted the pilots. Airport sources said that the ATC staff saw the Air India Express flight, with 170 passengers on board, landing at about the same time when the Jet Airways plane was about to leave the airport...
11:46 PM, Nov 07, 2011
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Jet Airways has added daily flights from here to Sharjah, with a state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The airline currently operates a daily flight from Kochi to Sharjah. This is the airlines tenth daily service from India to the United Arab Emirates and the 22nd to the Gulf region. Jet Airways currently operates schedules to 24 international destinations. The 9W 570 flight departs from Thiruvananthapuram at 1015 hours local time...
12:05 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Chennai: A major air mishap was averted at Chennai airport on Saturday when a Delhi-bound private airliner which had been cleared for take-off stopped on the runway just as an Air India flight was about to land. Airport authorities have sought explanation from Jet Airways as to why the aircraft was stopped despite it being cleared for take-off. Airport sources said the Delhi-bound Jet Airways plane was taxiing on the...
02:30 PM, Sep 24, 2011
Kolkata: A Jet Airways plane carrying Mamata Banerjee hovered in the sky for about 40 minutes before touching ground due to emergency landing of an aircraft at the NSC Bose international airport on Wednesday that apparently left the West Bengal chief minister unamused. Expressing displeasure at the delay of her flight from Bagdogra after her two-day visit to the quake-hit North Bengal and Sikkim, she said, "How do I know?...
07:51 AM, Sep 22, 2011
New Delhi: With jet fuel prices hiked by 2.5 per cent, Jet Airways on Friday increased fuel surcharge on its tickets by Rs 200 with effect from Saturday, raising airfares. Other airlines like Kingfisher and Air India are yet to take a decision in the matter, their officials said. Aviation Turbine Fuel (ATF) price at Delhi's T3 airport was hiked by Rs 1,429 per kilolitre (kl), or 2.5 per cent,...
06:46 PM, Sep 16, 2011
Mumbai: A Jet Airways international flight from Mumbai to Bahrain was on Sunday delayed by two hours after the airline's staff received an anonymous call claiming a bomb was on board. It turned out to be a hoax. The flight 9W 592 from Mumbai to Bahrain took off at 9:30 pm - two hours after its original departure time of 7:30 pm. After the bomb scare, security agencies including the...
10:58 PM, Sep 04, 2011
Mumbai: The passengers of a Jet flight from Mumbai to Doha were deplaned following a bomb scare in the aircraft on Monday. The airlines received an anonymous tip-off in the form of a note in the aircraft. The Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and bomb squad checked the flight, but found nothing suspicious. The flight was later scheduled for takeoff from Mumbai at 10:30 pm. ...
09:58 PM, Aug 15, 2011
In a first-of-its-kind judgement, a Delhi consumer court recently held Jet Airways accountable for the death of two pugs and asked it to pay Rs 1.44 lakh as compensation to the owner of the pets for causing them 'mental agony'. But the inconsolable family has termed the verdict 'grossly inadequate'. R K Tandon and wife Sunita, owner of the pugs, said money cannot make up for the loss of two...
02:28 PM, Aug 03, 2011
Guwahati: A Jet Airways flight with 134 passengers on board narrowly averted a mid-air collision on Thursday, triggering panic aboard, passengers said. Jet Airways Flight number 9W 2280 from New Delhi to Guwahati was probably flying over Patna when it abruptly lost control, leading to chaos inside. "First the flight abruptly turned right and then began to plummet. We thought it would crash. There was chaos and people were screaming...
08:44 PM, Jul 21, 2011
New Delhi: Boeing's answer to the Airbus A 380, the brand new Dreamliner 787 landed at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Wednesday morning. The Dreamliner is touted as a super fuel-efficient airplane that can carry upto 290 passengers and fly 15,750 kilometers at a stretch. Air India (AI) will receive its first Dreamliner in October and already plans are afoot to operate it on the Delhi-Mumbai-Melbourne...
07:15 AM, Jul 13, 2011
New Delhi: A Jet Airways airhostess has run into trouble with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) after she requested a person flying on a Singapore Delhi flight to sneak in four bottles of whiskey through Customs for her. The person she approached turned out to be DGCA's deputy director D Sharan. The incident occurred last month. The DGCA official immediately took action, writing a strongly-worded note to the...
11:45 AM, Jul 09, 2011
New Delhi: Boeing's answer to Airbus A 380, the brand new Dreamliner 787 finally lands in Japan on a test flight after a delay of three years. The same aircraft is expected to keep its date with Delhi on July 13. The Dreamliner is touted as a super fuel-efficient airplane that can carry upto 290 passengers and fly 15,750 kilometers at a stretch. Air India will receive its first in...
07:08 AM, Jul 06, 2011
New Delhi: Preeti Monga prides herself on doing everything on her own including making that first cup of tea that she and her husband enjoy each morning. She's 52, the owner of a successful placement business, a motivational speaker, an aerobic Instructor, a part-time social worker and she's visually impaired. Preeti was never made to feel incapable all her life, until she boarded a private airline. "I mentioned at the...
09:07 AM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: Preeti Monga prides herself on doing everything on her own including making that first cup of tea that she and her husband enjoy each morning. She's 52, the owner of a successful placement business, a motivational speaker, an aerobic Instructor, a part-time social worker and she's visually impaired. Preeti was never made to feel incapable all her life, until she boarded a private airline. "I mentioned at the...
09:07 AM, Jun 03, 2011
New Delhi: In the wake of the flight disruption in Europe due to ash spewing from an Icelandic volcano, officials of major Indian carriers on Wednesday held meetings to decide on diversion or cancellation of their flights. Officials of Kingfisher Airlines, Jet Airways and Air India held separate meetings to take a decision on their flight schedules as hundreds of flights continued to be grounded for the second day today...
03:08 PM, May 25, 2011
