Jet Airways Flight Booking Likely to Get a Boost with Introduction of 19 Additional Flights

Jet Airways, the second largest carrier in the country in terms of passengers carried and market share, is all set to introduce 19 additional flights on domestic routes for the coming winter schedule. This decision has been taken by the airline by looking at the trend of increase in demand for flights during the winter months, over the past few years. During this period, it will also launch 8 new flight services between four new city pairings. According to the Jet Airways management, the introduction of new and additional flights will strengthen their domestic network and also allow travelers to plan their journeys with greater flexibility. With these 27 new flight services in place, the carrier will operate 11 early morning flights on a daily basis. To make Jet Airways flight booking for these routes, travelers can take assistance of popular online travel portals.

Increasing Flight Services on Important Routes

Starting 15 November, 2015, the airline will run flights to the port city of Vishakhapatnam from its main hubs Delhi and Mumbai. This will provide better connectivity to passengers from/to North America, Middle East and Europe to reach the port city. Also, there will be introduction of daily services between Jammu and Srinagar for better connectivity between these two major cities of Jammu and Kashmir.

There would also be an enhancement on the Bengaluru and Hyderabad route with the launch of a third daily service. Similarly, the frequencies of daily flights between Mangaluru and Bengaluru will be increased to 6. The Mumbai and Jaipur route will also have three daily flights soon. The winter schedule will also see introduction of a second service between Varanasi and Delhi, and a third daily late evening service to Ahmedabad from Delhi.

The Delhi and Hyderabad route will get a fourth daily service, starting 15 November, and starting 30 November, there will be a second frequency of flights between Bengaluru and Goa, on six days of the week. In addition, there will be launch of a new early morning flight from Chennai to Kolkata. The frequency of flights will also be increased between Mumbai and Chennai. Flight tickets for all these routes can be booked in advance with online travel agencies with ease.

Upgrade on Delhi-Mumbai Route

In addition to the launch of new flight routes, the airline has said that the aircraft upgrade on the Delhi-Mumbai route is on the cards. This upgrade would mean that flights 9W 361 and 9W 362 will be replaced with Airbus A330-200, which features 236 domestic class and 18 business class seats. This route will also see an increase in daily flight services to 16 during the winter schedule.

Measures to Increase Market Share

The introduction of these 27 new and additional flight services is most likely to boost Jet Airways flight booking in the coming days. The carrier is keen to gain in terms of market share in the domestic sector and is trying out new things to woo the customers. This was evident in the October offering of Seat Select scheme, which was well received by both domestic and international passengers.

The Seat Select scheme offered passengers a chance to pre-book their seats; window, aisle or middle with an additional payment of INR 500 and INR 800 above the ticket price, on international and domestic flights, respectively. However, business class passengers were not required to pay this extra amount. The pre-book option was available for seats from row 11 to 15 and exit row 24 of the Economy class. However, the scheme was only available on the Boeing 737 aircraft of the airline.

With new schemes like these and launch of 8 new and 19 additional flights on various important domestic routes, Jet Airways has its eye set on making its network robust and increasing its market share in the coming months. It would be interesting to see how it fares in this endeavour since the weather during the winter months has been a real problem for carriers in the past.