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Oz airline Jetstar forges "interline" partnership with Jet Airways

Melbourne, Feb 25(ANI): Australian airline Jetstar has forged a new partnership with Indian counterpart Jet Airways.

Jetstar confirmed an "interline" agreement with Jet Airways in the wake of Victoria and New South Wales pressing Air India to re-launch a direct India-Australia tourism route.

Jetstar passengers will be able to arrange flight connections to destinations in India and elsewhere in Asia on the Indian airline, primarily out of Singapore.

Jetstar said its passengers would now be able to book a single "combined ticket" with Jet Airways, which includes luggage transfers, The Herald Sun reports.

Jetstar chief commercial officer David Koczkar said the agreement would allow both airlines to meet the increased demand from the Indian middle class.

India rates just outside the top 10 countries of origin for visitors to Australia but the number of visitors are growing rapidly and increased by 12.3 percent in 2010.

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http://www.livemint.com/2012/02/29212817/Jet-Airways-cuts-flights-to-Ko.html

Close on the heels of the Director General of Civil Aviation rapping a couple of airlines for cancelling their regular flights, yet another major Indian carrier, Jet Airways, has resorted to a massive cancellation of its flights from Cochin airport to the Gulf sector.

According to official sources, the flights cancelled included 20 flights in the Kochi- Doha-Kochi route, six flights in the Kochi-Sharjah-Kochi route, 10 flights in the Kochi-Muscat and 11 flights in the Muscat-Kochi sectors. In addition, the airline has also cancelled two Sharjah and two Muscat services each from Thiruvanathapuram.

Meanwhile, the carrier, in an official statement made to The Hindu, said that Jet Airways made changes to its schedule for some of its flights from the Kochi on certain specific days for operational reasons. “All flight schedules are planned, and are operated with intimation to the regulator,” it said.

According to it, the airline informs its patrons of all changes in schedule through the airline‘s call centre and travel agents, also adding that the revised schedule was available on the airlines official website www.jetair ways.com.

“There are hardly any cancellations from the other airports and when worked out, the cancellations from Kochi are quite insignificant, ” said an official spokesperson.

me111993 · Member Joined: 04 Sep 2009 Posts: 3225 Location: MAA/AMD

9W keeps postponning the service entry of their 737-900ER's, new EIS on the system appears to be 25th of this month on BOM-KTM/KWI.
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Optimus.Prime · Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:05 pm Post subject:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/Outstanding-dues-After-Kingfisher-Airlines-Jet-Airways-gets-taxmans-notice/articleshow/12211085.cms

NEW DELHI: After freezing the bank accounts of beleaguered Kingfisher Airlines, the service tax department has now served a notice on Jet Airways to pay up about Rs 69 crore as dues soon or face similar consequences, but the airline said it would do so by Monday.

Jet Airways has not paid a total of about Rs 69 crore worth of dues for January and February which they collected during this period, official sources said.

The amount was to have been paid by March 6, they said, adding that if they did not reply to the notice soon, "we will have to go for freezing of their accounts. We have to talk to the banks in the process of assessing the number of accounts they have."

When contacted, Jet's Senior Vice President (Finance) Mahalingam Shivkumar told PTI, "There has been some delay due to hike in oil prices and other costs. We are effecting the payments by Monday. Everything will be normal then."

There have been a major increase in costs including the hike in jet fuel prices, he said, adding "it is only a delay of about four days... it is like making a mountain out of a molehill."

Jet Airways posted a loss of Rs 101.22 crore in the third quarter ending December 31 last year, as higher fuel prices, lower fares and rupee depreciation continued to hurt the company. In the corresponding quarter the previous year, the company had posted a net profit of Rs 118.23 crore.

However, its total income increased to Rs 3,939.16 crore for the quarter as against Rs 3,473.38 crore recorded during the same quarter of the previous year.

The tax authorities have frozen a large number of bank accounts of Kingfisher squeezing its finances, even as the IATA has suspended it for non-payment of dues from three of its crucial platforms, including those connected with its ticket sales and cargo bookings.

First IT, now 9W, looks like someones really busy kicking butt!
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sri_bom · Member Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 2365 Location: Singapore

Jet Airways chairman Naresh Goyal assured pilots at the carrier of the timely payment of their salaries (PTI, 08-Mar-2012). For the past few months, salaries have been officially delayed with the pilots in the lower bracket getting paid on the seventh day of every month and their counterparts in the upper bracket on 15th of every month.

HAWK21M · Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2012 12:34 pm Post subject:

Maintenance is getting paid mid of the month too.
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jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

The flying whore turns yet another trick : Benetton.

(by email) : Now, earn ever more worthless JetPunishment miles.

Yay !
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www.atwonline.com/eco-aviation/article/jet-airways-lease-wheeltug-systems-0312

India’s Jet Airways and WheelTug signed of a letter of intent giving the airline the right to lease WheelTug Aircraft Drive Systems for installation on its Boeing 737NG aircraft. The WheelTug electric drive system uses high- performance electric motors, installed in the nose gear wheels of an aircraft, to provide full mobility while on the ground during pushback and taxi operations without using aircraft's engines or tugs. Typically, a taxiing 737 burns 24 to 27 pounds of fuel per minute. The electric WheelTug unit needs four pounds of fuel per minute by using the aircraft’s auxiliary power unit (APU), Jet Airways said. This represents an 80% reduction in ground operation fuel consumption, as well as less noise and freedom from dependence on tug availability. Other benefits include substantially reduced carbon
dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions,
increased safety and flexibility of operations, faster turnaround times, reduced engine wear and repair costs and decreased noise pollution. WheelTug estimates the total savings at over $
500,000 per aircraft per year. WheelTug Systems will be offered to Jet Airways entirely on a lease, or power-by-the-hour model.
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jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

Does it even matter or does anyone even give a crap that they feel they need to make a song and dance and press release about this?

http://www.jetairways.com/EN/IN/PressReleases/LOIwithWheelTug.aspx

Or, yet again, nothing else going well, so let's make some noise about nothing at all.

Empty vessels and such, I suppose.
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sammyk · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:27 pm Post subject:

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Not all their moves.

Almost all of them.

And they make it so incredibly easy these days.
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Nimish · Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2012 7:24 pm Post subject:

jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

Fair enough. And I'm not implying its a useless piece of equipment that won't help.

But is it really something that warrants publicity to the general population? I suspect not.

Or is it so far down the list of newsworthy items that's trotted out only in the absence of anything else?

Its not cutlery - silly as that was, at least the cutlery is something their customers will actually encounter and know. This one just seems like noise for noise's sake.

As an internal communique, its a great news item. Outside of that, not so much.
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Holy dhokla khandvi ! Looks like I wasn't too far off the mark.

With Rajdhani (hard core, diabetes- and heart etteck-inducing Gujju thali joint) now a proud JetPunishment partner, Sulabh Shochalay surely cannot be too far behind.

Are Rajdhani's plates and platters Rosenthal ?
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abhijith16 · Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:00 am Post subject:

Saw the most weirdest thing at BOM today. I saw a S2-livery aircraft with the titles JetKonnect! Shocked

I tried to take a picture, I'm not sure if its good. Probably this is the end of Jetlite/Jet Konnect confusion for good..
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jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

So I just discovered Jet are charging a change fee for all redemption bookings. Apparently they started a couple of months ago and have added to the things that get charged.

Any ticketing transaction at Jet Airways city office / airport ticketing counters, Reservations or at JetPrivilege Service Centre will attract a transaction fee of Rs.150/- per ticket, per passenger, per transaction.

At USA and Canada, a charge of USD 25/- and CAD 25/- will be charged respectively. This fee is non-refundable.

Credit Card Transaction Fee: GBP 4.50/- will be charged per ticket for every payment accepted by Credit Card at London ticketing offices.

A fee is perfectly fine (even though it's one more item in Jet's ever increasing laundry list). As is the fee fluctuation between countries. The language, with grammar, syntax and spelling all over the place, as well as the exceptions and exceptions to exceptions (like the silly Disembarkation Card), that make the whole thing clear as mud, those are typical SloppyJet, so they're excused as well (one learns to adjust expectations).

I am, however, not sure about their charging the fee retroactively. That's not right and might not even be legal, depending on the words in the T&C.

The amount of the fee in India is laughable though. Because it will probably cost them very nearly the same amount to process the fee transaction as the fee itself.
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ameya · Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 7:04 pm Post subject:

Jet Airways Konnect and JetLite to be rebranded as JetKonnect, effective March 25

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http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5408080/

from a.net; reply 95;

jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

What exactly can they do beyond sharing codes and partnering in the FFP?

An out-of-alliance joint venture seems highly unlikely for a relatively insignificant market as India-Australia.
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From India, Australia is low-yielding, seasonal, largely trashy traffic. Of course it is insignificant relative to so many other markets.

And when both airlines operate a route (or routes between two countries) I can see the JV working out well. In this case, QF will soon no longer be in India and Jet aren't going Down Under anytime soon (unless they've caught the MEL bug from Air India). So where exactly is the joint part of the venture?

In any event, Qantas won't depend on anyone for India traffic, because it clearly isn't a big enough factor for them. The fact that SIN-BNE is going from a 330 to a 744 after the BOM pullout also tells us that there is no dependency.

I'm not saying a JV will fail. Just that I don't see it achieving anything the current arrangement can't.
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For what's worth, Jet have re-instated domestic lounge access for JetPunishment Silvers.

Who knows what the reasoning is, maybe they want to quell / prevent an exodus, or they just realised they were going about it all wrong. Whatever the reason, definitely a first little step in the right direction.
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vikramv2 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:17 am Post subject:

I was searching for flights from BOM-MAA for miles redemption and found that the miles required have come down from 10500 to 8400 for a one way trip. Anyone else encountered lower miles requirements for award bookings? If this is pan system, then the Jet Airways miles suddenly gets you 20%, which is pretty cool i think...
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vikramv2 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 11:19 am Post subject:

I just saw that there is a offer where redemptions are 20% across the board from March 25 to September 30 2012. This is awesome IMO
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ameya · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 12:47 pm Post subject:

Jets B739ER is registered as VT-JBY
Its in 215 seats config, 2008 make.
ex- XL airways and ex-Lion air

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theflyingsikh · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 3:16 pm Post subject: New JP Rules

This makes me really happy, Wonder if the 20% is a introductory offer or here to stay?

Mileage accural across the board on Domestic sectors has been increased even on the lowest available booking classes.

Is this a possible indication of 9W joining an Alliance?

More miles mean, JP members will have more miles in their account. What about redemption seat availablity?

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jasepl · Member Joined: 26 Jul 2008 Posts: 4257 Location: bund-bay

Whatever their reasoning, this is a good move. Besides the benefit to the traveller, it will also help Jet somewhat with their balance sheet.

Of course, premium redemption remains off-limits it seems. Perhaps divine intervention next time will help?

I do find the timing of this to be a bit curious, but it's still a good move from Jet, something that's been scarce in the recent past.

And 6 months is rather generous.
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lavence7 · Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2012 10:00 pm Post subject: