Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - Wednesday, April 1st 2015 [ME NewsWire]

Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, has introduced daily direct flights from Abu Dhabi to Ahmedabad, Pune and Mangalore.

Started 29 March, the new services strengthen Jet Airways’ growing international network and offer connections from Gulf and inbound traffic into India from North America, Europe and Africa over Abu Dhabi with its strategic partner, Etihad Airways.

For the first time Jet Airways has offered international flights to Ahmedabad and Pune.

Jet Airways now operates daily flights to Delhi, Mumbai, Kochi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Lucknow, Goa, Ahmedabad, Pune and Mangalore from Abu Dhabi.

Jet Airways is currently the only private Indian airline to operate daily flights across 3 major airports in the UAE with over 50 daily flights to multiple Gulf destinations from India.

The airline will deploy Boeing 737-800 Next Generation (NG) aircraft with capacity of 12 seats in Premiere class and 156 seats in Economy class on new routes.

Jet Airways flight 9W 520 will depart Ahmedabad at 0505 hrs and arrive Abu Dhabi at 0650 hrs (LT). The return flight 9W 519 will depart Abu Dhabi at 2155 hrs (LT) and arrive Ahmedabad at 0225 hrs the next day.

This flight will also be code shared by our strategic partner Etihad Airways.

Jet Airways flight 9W 502 will depart Mangalore at 1740 hrs and arrive Abu Dhabi at 2010 hrs (LT). The return flight 9W 501 will depart Abu Dhabi at 0845 hrs (LT) and arrive Mangalore at 1345 hrs.

Jet Airways flight 9W 514 will depart from Pune at 2020 hrs and will arrive Abu Dhabi at 2215 hrs (LT). The return flight 9W 513 will depart Abu Dhabi at 2315 hrs (LT) and arrive Pune at 0405 hrs the next day.

About Jet Airways

Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 116 aircraft including a mix of Boeing 777-300 ERs/Airbus A330-200/300, Next Generation Boeing 737s and ATR 72-500/600s. Flights to 71 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Kathmandu, Kuwait, London (Heathrow), Muscat, New York (Newark), Paris, Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Toronto.

Jet Airways is a member airline of Etihad Airways Partners.

Contacts

Manish Kalghatgi

Vice-President, Corporate Communications, +91-226-1211-048

mkalghatgi@jetairways.com

Srirupa Sen                                                                

Manager, Corporate Communications, +91-226-1211-152

ssen@jetairways.com

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