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

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

Jet Goes for the Kill

Aneesh Phadnis / Mumbai November 14, 2011,
0:39 IST
Airline to increase full-service flights as Kingfisher curtails operations. Kingfisher’s pain could be Jet Airways’ gain. The Naresh Goyal-led carrier plans to increase the number of its full-service flights to attract passengers affected by Kingfisher cancellations.

Currently, about 60 per cent of Jet’s domestic flights operate under the Konnect brand, a no-frills service. The airline now plans to increase the share of full-service fights to 50 per cent, says Jet Airways chief executive officer Nikos Kardassis. “The situation in the market is changing very rapidly due to Kingfisher cancelling flights every day. We are looking to add capacity and increase the number of flights, mostly in the full service. The corporate segment is now shifting over to us,’’ he says. The strategy of Jet, which posted a second-quarter loss of Rs 713 crore on the back of high crude oil prices, lean season impact and foreign exchange conversion loss, is simple. An increase in the number of full-service flights will help improve its yields and also make competition tougher for Kingfisher. Kingfisher plans to do away with the low-cost brand and offer full-service products on all flights in the next three months. Air India is the only carrier now to have full-service products on all flights. Jet Airways and its low-cost subsidiary JetLite operate 620 daily flights across domestic and international networks in the current schedule.
Since last Monday, Kingfisher has been cancelling 30-50 flights daily as it tries to pare losses. Kingfisher has said it is cutting non-profitable routes and carrying out reconfiguration of planes to relaunch as a full-service carrier. The reconfiguration will require up to three aircraft to be out of service over the next three months. That means Kingfisher will be operating a truncated schedule. Although Kardassis did not share the exact number
of additional flights, Jet could hope to benefit from the director general of civil aviation’s proposal to allow other carriers to operate flights in slots unutilised by Kingfisher. “In the second quarter, Jet’s domestic business was
under pressure and ticket prices dropped,’’ said Mahantesh Sabarad, an analyst with Fortune Equity Brokers. According to Sabarad, ticket prices fell 10-12 per cent in the second quarter on a sequential basis and now the airline can hope to recover some of the losses by raising fares. “For Jet Airways, the more pressing issue is addressing profitability in the domestic sector, which can be done by increasing fares,’’ he said. On a stand-alone basis, Jet Airways earned a revenue of Rs 3,332 crore in the second quarter of FY 2012 — up seven per cent over the same period last year. Earnings before interest tax depreciation, amortisation and rentals (Ebidtar) stood at Rs 172 crore. However, JetLite’s revenue grew just three per cent and it had an Ebidtar loss of Rs 41 crore in the second quarter. On a consolidated basis, the airline recorded a loss of Rs 713 crore compared to a profit of Rs 12.40 crore in the second quarter of last year.
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Nimish · Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:56 am Post subject:

^^ Makes sense, let the market find it's level.
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me111993 · Member Joined: 04 Sep 2009 Posts: 3225 Location: MAA/AMD

lavence7 · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2011 1:26 pm Post subject:

Jet's 737-900ER? flight stats shows Jetlite is operating one. Any idea if they actually have one?

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

i might be wrong here but either VT-JWJ or VT-JWL (A330-200's) is at static display at the DXB Air Show.
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747-237 · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 2:09 am Post subject:

justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/shooting/Father-comes-to-daughters-rescue/articleshow/10746906.cms

A Jet Airways security officer, unaware of exemption given to national shooters, nearly scuttled Kerala shooter Elizabeth Susan Koshy's participation in the 55th National Shooting Championships, set to begin in Balewadi on Wednesday.

The unidentified official barred Elizabeth and her father Koshy Abraham from boarding the flight (9W 2306-2379 Cochin-Bangalore-Pune) with her guns - an air rifle (0.177mm) and a 0.22mm rifle - at the Nedumbasserry International Airport in Cochin on Monday.

A worried Abraham did some quick thinking. He asked his distraught daughter to take the flight, put the rifles in his car and drove non-stop for 24 hours from Kochi to Pune to ensure that his daughter could take part in the competition.

Elizabeth and Abraham, along with national coach Sunny Thomas, had already been issued boarding passes and their weapons were sealed and cleared for journey by the airport authorities before the airline official intervened. The official demanded a clearance letter from the DGCA. Despite being pointed out that the person in question was a sportsperson who had represented India in international competition and that she had travelled several times by the same airline on the same sector with her guns, the official refused to budge.

"He referred to a circular from the DGCA, but when I asked him to show me a copy of it, he couldn't. He gave me a copy only after I entered the flight," Thomas said. "The DGCA notification was actually dated 2005. The NRAI had taken it up with the DGCA and subsequently, rules had been amended to allow sportspersons who have the required license to carry one gun with them on domestic routes," Thomas explained.

Abraham had realized that arguing with the rigid official was a futile exercise and thus drove down to Pune with the weapons. "The driver had come to drop me, but he ended up travelling with me to Pune. Poor guy, he had complained of neck pain and back strain, but he refused to let me travel all alone," Abraham said.

Does 9W security department have a new KPI of number of "guests" inconvenienced?! This looks ridiculous.

sumantra · Member Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 4685 Location: New Delhi

Kudos to Mr. Koshy Abraham. For a country where sportspersons often do not get the official backing they deserve, many succeed only because of their parents' grit and unflinching support. Kerala anyway is perhaps India's top state in terms of many sports - this is exemplary. Jet Airways on the other hand, cut a sorry figure here in this incident...I wonder - have they at least issued an official apology to Elizabeth? Given that their PR is much better than the nearly non-existent AI one, or the weird Kingfisher one, India's perhaps best-managed full-service carrier should go ahead with this - at least.
Cheers, Sumantra.

747-237 · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 8:56 pm Post subject:

Jet Airways has added a new 737-800 to the fleet today, as VT-JBV.
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747-237 · Posted: Wed Nov 16, 2011 10:38 pm Post subject:

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

Jet has taken delivery of their 100th aircraft.
VT-JBV, a new 737-800, with skyinteriors.
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abhijith16 · Posted: Thu Nov 17, 2011 8:43 pm Post subject:

Jet begins CCU-DMU 6 times a week

9W2883 CCU1010 - 1205DMU AT7 x2

9W2884 DMU1235 - 1455CCU AT7 x2

Source: http://www.jetairways.com/EN/IN/PressReleases/KolkataDimapurFlight.aspx

747-237 · Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2011 7:06 pm Post subject:

http://www.assetfinanceinternational.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5111:jet-airways-to-raise-350m-from-sale-and-leaseback-of-20-planes&catid=704:asia-pacific&Itemid=1229

Jet Airways to raise $350m from sale and leaseback of 20 planes

18 November 2011

Jet Airways is looking to raise up to $350m from the sale and leaseback of aircraft. It will also aim to cut costs by renegotiating contracts across various operations such as aircraft leasing and fuel supplies.

“We have proposals worth $300-350m for sale and leaseback of around 20 aircraft,” M Shivkumar, senior vice president - finance, Jet Airways said. “The process will start in December.”

Jet reported a Rs733 crore loss in Q2 of 2011. In addition, Jet needs to repay Rs1,487 crore of a total debt of Rs14,100 crore in two quarters.
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747-237 · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 3:15 pm Post subject:

Jet Airways has added a new 737-800 to the fleet today, as VT-JBX.
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747-237 · Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2011 4:54 pm Post subject:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204531404577055292616846210.html

Jet Airways Plans to Give Loans to JetLite.

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Jet Airways (India) Ltd. said Wednesday it plans to give 500 million ($9.6 million) of interest-free loans to JetLite by the end of March as part of immediate steps to keep the loss-making unit continue its operations.

"These funds will be enough for JetLite," said M. Shivkumar, senior vice president in charge of finance at Jet Airways. "The environment is improving now and we expect higher yields in the coming months to generate the additional requirement of cash," he said, referring to December and January, when extended holidays lead to a rise in travel.

The decision to provide financial support to JetLite follows remarks from Jet's auditors that the carrier needs to raise money to fulfil its obligations and also fund JetLite, whose net worth has eroded.

Auditors Deloitte Haskins & Sells and Chaturvedi & Shah said in their limited review of Jet's July-September results that raising funds was vital if the airline's accounts in the future are to be prepared on a "going concern" basis, which refers to a company's ability to generate enough funds to stay operational.

Jet Airways, India's biggest airline by market share, had infused 16.45 billion rupees as equity and an additional 14.14 billion rupees as loans to JetLite until the end of September.

Jet's financial troubles reflect wider issues in India's aviation industry where all airlines except one--low-fare carrier Indigo--are incurring losses. Airlines have been hit by high fuel prices, mounting interest costs, a falling rupee as well as fierce competition that isn't allowing them to fully pass on the higher costs to customers.

Rashes Shah, an analyst with ICICI Securities Ltd., said Jet can, for the time being, withstand challenges in the industry but "will be in trouble if the negative environment sustains for more than a year."

Jet Airways's Shivkumar said also that a planned institutional share placement, through which Jet aimed to raise $400 million, won't happen anytime soon. But he added that Jet plans to sell and leaseback more planes in the next six months to generate cash.

The airline has a fleet of 100 planes, of which it owns 40, with the remainder on lease.

It can fetch up to $300 million as profit from the sale and leaseback of the 40 planes, Mr. Shivkumar said, but added that Jet would prefer to own some planes to keep some assets on its balance sheet.

He said also that Jet has to repay 15 billion rupees of debt by the end of March. Of this, 6 billion rupees is short-term debt, part of which Jet may refinance.

JetLite was formed in 2007 after Jet acquired Sahara Airlines Ltd. and turned it into a budget carrier. The unit incurred a loss of 1.07 billion rupees in the financial year ended March 31, 2011.

Jet Airways, whose shares have lost two-thirds of their value in 2011, posted a net loss of 7.14 billion rupees in the July-September quarter, compared with a year-earlier net profit of 124 million rupees.
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747-237 · Posted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 9:54 pm Post subject:

Jet Airways Increases Capacity on Mumbai – Dubai Service Dec 2011 – Feb 2012

As per 25NOV11 GDS timetable and inventory display, Jet Airways from 16DEC11 to 29FEB12 is increasing capacity on Mumbai – Dubai service, which 1 of 3 Daily service is to be operated by Airbus A330-200, instead of Boeing 737-800.

Operational schedule as follows:

9W542 BOM0915 – 1105DXB 73H D
9W538 BOM1540 – 1720DXB 73H D
9W544 BOM1855 – 2045DXB 332 D

9W541 DXB1215 – 1635BOM 73H D
9W537 DXB1855 – 2320BOM 73H D
9W543 DXB2200 – 0220+1BOM 332 D

Airlineroute.net
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747-237 · Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2011 7:43 am Post subject:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Jet-Airways-charges-for-carrying-arms-on-board/articleshow/11039525.cms

Jet Airways charges for carrying arms on board

Dec 9, 2011

Airways might be in trouble with the Directorate General of Civil Aviation for levying additional charges on passengers carrying licenced arms on board.

The matter came to light last month when a participant of the 55{+t}{+h} National Shooting Championship in Pune was not permitted to board her flight until she paid Rs 5,000 for carrying an air pistol, even though the gun was checked in.

Koninica Dasgupta was travelling on Jet Airways flight 9W-365 from Delhi to Pune. She arrived at IGI Airport at 6.45am for her 8.30am flight and after standing in line for 45 minutes, reached the check-in counter around 7.30am.

"The staff at the check-in counter told me that I would have to pay Rs 5,000 for the Steyr LP10 air pistol that I was carrying, as per a Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) rule. I was carrying all the requisite documents, including a circular about the competition organized by the National Rifle Association of India (NRAI) and membership cards issued by the NRAI and the Delhi State Rifle Association. My boarding card was finally issued to me at 8.15am after I made the payment in cash. Another participant was similarly charged Rs 15,000 for carrying three guns," she said.

DGCA officials denied that they had asked airlines to levy any such charge and said that they would take up the matter with Jet Airways. The secretary of NRAI Rajeev Bhatia also complained that more shooters had faced this problem with Jet, the only airline that levies a charge for carrying arms.

Meanwhile, Jet Airways officials told TOI that the charge was not based on a DGCA order but was being levied by the airline directly.

A spokesperson said, "Jet Airways and Jetlite levy a charge on passengers for carrying firearms onboard its domestic and international flights. Passengers are exempt from paying this charge if they are serving with the defence forces, paramilitary forces and police and if travelling on duty and carrying an official order issued by their departments concerned authorizing the 'carriage of weapon and/or ammunition for official purpose'."

Sportspersons travelling to participate in a competition or to represent the country in any event are also exempted from paying the charges if they have valid identification documents, valid licence for arms and ammunition and written documents issued by the president or secretary of the sports club sponsoring him/her for an event.

The spokesperson said Dasgupta "could not produce valid and bonafide documents, including an official invitation, and hence could not be exempt from the charges levied on her". The airline justified the charge saying it was being done "for making available a dedicated resource responsible for carrying firearms onboard and for managing this process".

DGCA officials said no such order had been issued by it or any clearance taken for levying additional charges. They also said the airline would be asked to give an explanation on the matter.

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747-237 · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 5:09 pm Post subject:

Email from Jet Airways

Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011
From: jetprivilegenewsletter@dm.jetairways.com
Subject: JetUpdate: Now fly Mumbai-Dubai on an A 330!

Dear xxxxxx,

It gives us immense pleasure to inform you that effective December 19, 2011, we will be introducing the new A 330 aircraft in service on the Mumbai – Dubai – Mumbai sector. What this means for you is a faster and more comfortable way to get to Dubai and back.

With more leg space and plush cushioning the new A 330 is certain to pamper you like never before so hurry book your tickets today!

This A 330 aircraft will operate on the following flight:
• Mumbai to Dubai: 9W544 Dep 18:55 Arr 20:45
• Dubai to Mumbai: 9W543 Dep 22:00 Arr 02:20
All timings are local.

BOOK NOW!

Warm regards,

Manish Dureja
VP - Marketing

*Conditions apply.
• This A 330 operation will be in service till February 29, 2012
• The other flights on this route will continue to operate on a Boeing 737
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MR · Member Joined: 03 Mar 2008 Posts: 35 Location: Mumbai

Almost highlighting that the regular narrowbody product is inferior.

andrew · Member Joined: 24 Apr 2007 Posts: 212

I've flown Jet to DXB and MAA in the last 2 weeks - both on the 737 service. On both ocassions I was left feelign immensely stupid for having given them my hard earned money as revenue.

The services are meant to be full service - but Jet crew seem to now not be able to distinguish when they are operating Konnect or full service.

There were no dedicated check-in counters for frequent flyers, meal was a sandwich (????) and there was no wine service. The curt response - Sir, this is what we serve on these sectors. If you want more, try another airline.

Whoa.... when did they start hating the people who contribute towards their salaries??

Its Emirates for me next time!!!

abhigopal · Member Joined: 01 May 2008 Posts: 172

try AI. I hear they are very good.

justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

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justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

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

justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

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

justbala · Member Joined: 11 Jan 2007 Posts: 1898 Location: Bangalore

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

So, extreme fanaticism and masochism. Coupled with egg-in-the-chest syndrome.

A most unfortunate affliction, I must say.

If you want, I can pass along the number of a psychiatrist who could try to help. Or maybe an exorcist will work better? Razz

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Nimish · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 10:42 am Post subject:

From: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Flier-awarded-Rs-50000-for-drink-refusal/articleshow/11186140.cms

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The_Goat · Posted: Wed Dec 21, 2011 6:20 pm Post subject:

iah87 · Member Joined: 17 Apr 2007 Posts: 2566

There are always isolated incidents with every airline. For most part I have found Jet staff to be professional. In the US we have frequently muslim and arab "looking" passengers getting kicked out regularly because of perceived bias of either fellow passengers or FA's. This does not mean that airline is intent on discrminating.