Jet Airways India Ltd has announced that Travel agents worldwide have voted Jet Airways 'India's Leading Airline' at the 14th Annual World Travel Awards.

The awards were announced on November 02, 2007, at the World Travel Awards Asia, Australasia & Indian Ocean ceremony, held at the Leela Palace Kempinski, Bangalore, India.



Hailed by the Wall Street Journal as the "Travel industry's equivalent to the Oscars", the World Travel Awards are the most comprehensive and prestigious awards program in the global travel industry today. Conceived in 1993, these awards seek to acknowledge and celebrate excellence in the world's travel and tourism industry.

The World Travel Awards are especially coveted as, uniquely, the votes are cast globally by fellow professionals.

05/11/07 Equity Bulls

Jet Airways is getting into hospitality venture. Naresh Goyal-owned airline has acquired 15 acres near the Brussels airport in Belgium. The airline said this 500-room five-star deluxe hotel would mainly target Jet passengers who transit through its base in Brussels and the airline crew. It would also have a catering kitchen to serve all Jet flights originating from Belgium and London.



"We are going to tie up with a leading foreign chain of hotels for this project though the hotel will reflect our culture. It will go in direction of achieving our dream of establishing Jet as a truly Indian brand abroad,'' said an official.

Incidentally, Oberoi Hotel chairman PRS Oberoi is on Jet's board of directors and the airline is likely to use his experience for this project. To cater to its Indian clientele, the airline is planning to have ethnic dishes on its menu and a dedicated restaurant is also being considered.

The Belgium government is supporting Jet's move to build the hotel.

07/11/07 Saurabh Sinha/Times of India

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Jet Airways is expanding their international operations further and they are inviting applications!

You can join if....

> You are between 18 - 27 yrs
> If your minimum height is 157 cms (ladies) and 170 cms (gentlement)
> 10 + 2 minimum education
> Warm pleasing personality, clear complexion and good eyesight



You need to go to www.jetairways.com and apply online.

Expereinced candidates also welcome to apply for positions at all levels.

Jet Airways will fly to New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport from 28 October.

The flight via Brussels, Jet’s new European hub, will be synchronised to provide passengers a hassle-free transfer between Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai to cities in North America ~ New York (JFK), New Jersey (Newark) and Toronto in Canada.



JFK ranks among the busiest airports in the world. Jet has planned to deploy brand new Boeing 777-300ER (extended range) aircraft to service the new route, said the chairman, Mr Naresh Goyal.

26/10/07 The Statesman

We got this in the mail today

Hi!
I am really very happy for getting so many informations about Hospitality, Aviation & Travel Industry. I am very eager to join service industry, can you help me out by giving information about the reqruitements of the various airlines for the ground staff for different post, i want to try for ground staff. And also abut the qualification, job exp. and what other necessities they require, it will really help me and also please guide me how to apply.
Once more I am really thankfull to my airline career for your help.

Thanks & Regard
Momi Devi

Thank you so much Momi...But the reason it has been put up is not because its an appreciation (we have recd them earlier with thanks, but just havent put them here...)

We decided to call & ask someone for help..so..

Dear Momi,

I just had a word with the Senior Customer Services Executive at Jet Airways.

She is currently based at Chandigarh and holds a senior position with the ground staff team.

She tells me, the only requirement is that one should be less than 24 years of age, a graduate, pleasant personality and good communication skills.

Thats it.

If you have all this, I have a surprise(good) for you!

You can go & meet the Jet Airways - Chandigarh Airport Manager, Mr. Abid Hussain either Today (13th Oct) or Monday (15Oct)

They are recruiting /looking for ground staff positions.

All the best!

p.s. thank you for the kind words! They make our day. The entire team thanks you for being a reader and many more for the encouragement!

Warm Regards,

Editor

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India' largest private airline, Jet Airways, is planning to fly to Bahrain from early next year, it emerged yesterday.

The carrier has applied for Indian government permission to fly to the "lucrative" Gulf routes, including Bahrain, but would not actually start operations before January next year, sources told the GDN.


"It is a positive development in case the go-ahead is given to us," said Jet Airways Dubai-based Gulf regional manager Shakir Kantawala.

"We have not heard anything concrete yet, but are hoping for a favourable development," he said. Mr Kantawala said that the Gulf was a lucrative route to operate to, with Bahrain and the UAE "growing tremendously".

"In addition, Qatar is poised for rapid and dramatic growth. In all this, we would fit in perfectly," he said.

Sources told the GDN that Jet had applied for flights to six Gulf destinations from next year.

13/09/07 Mandeep Singh/Gulf Daily News, Bahrain

Jet Airways, is likely to have daily services from Doha to Mumbai and Kozhikode, when operations start next January.

Sources in Doha said the general sales agent, Cleopatra Travels, was “trying to have daily operations” though no final decision had been taken.



India’s civil aviation ministry on Friday decided to grant traffic rights to Jet Airways on the India-Gulf/Middle East routes with effect from January 1.

Indian expatriates welcomed the decision. They feel a choice of carriers will at least improve the services, if not bring down the high fares in the sector. Although Qatar-India fares are regulated by the civil aviation authorities in this country, expatriates are hoping that fares would soon be determined by market conditions, as they are in many countries including the UAE.

According to the New Delhi decision, Jet can offer 2,100 seats to Qatar a week - 1,050 on the Mumbai-Doha route and 1,050 on the Kozhikode-Doha sector.

Jet could make a bigger impact in the Kozhikode sector, because the average daily quota of 150 seats is double the current availability.

Currently only state-owned carrier Indian offers a non-stop service to Kozhikode from Doha.

16/09/07 Gulf Times, Qatar

The lucrative Gulf routes will no longer be the sole domain of public carriers Indian and Air India.
Jet Airways and its subsidiary Jetlite could be the first private Indian airlines given permission to fly there.Civil Aviation Ministry sources tell CNN-IBN Jet could soon fly to Dubai, Abu Dabhi, Qatar, Oman, Kuwait and Bahrain.

Permissions are likely in a few weeks. But flights cannot start before January, when the government ban on private sector flights to the Gulf is lifted.

The ban dates back to 2004 when private airlines were allowed to fly abroad but kept out of this revenue-generating route

Currently both public carriers together can operate about 85,400 seats weekly to the Gulf. But they are able to utilise just half this number, mostly due to the shortage of aircraft.

12/09/07 CNN-IBN/Daijiworld.com

Jet Airways is planning to launch a dedicated cargo airline and is in discussions with international players for a possible tie-up, Chairman Naresh Goyal said in New Delhi on Tuesday.


“We will be announcing our plans for the cargo airline before the end of this year. We are in talks with several players. We will definitely launch a separate cargo airlines,” Goyal said.


Jet Airway, which announced its first flight between Delhi and Toronto via Brussels, also plans to connect several cities in Europe and the USA including Zurich, Milan and Dsseldorf, Los Angeles and San Fransico.


“We would be serving 50 points in Europe. We are also looking at Iran and Tel Aviv and examining the possibility of connecting Tel Aviv with the US. Besides, we plan to fly to Durban and Johannesburg in South Africa”, he said.


05/09/07 Gaurav Choudhury/Hindustan Times

Jet Airways (India) Ltd, has applied to the government for permission to fly West Asia routes from India, ahead of the year-end expiry of a monopoly that state-owned carriers Air India Ltd and Indian Airlines Ltd have been guaranteed on the lucrative sector, its chairman has said.



“We have applied to the civil aviation ministry to fly to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha and Kuwait and are hoping to get a favourable response as per the policy,” Naresh Goyal, who chairs the board of the Mumbai-based aviation firm, said in an interview on Tuesday.


Goyal’s continued focus on international expansion comes at a time when foreign carriers such as Deutsche Lufthansa AG, Etihad and British Airways Plc. are increasing the frequency of flights to and from India; they are being, matched in part by Air India. (On Tuesday, Jet announced new flights to Toronto from Delhi via Brussels.)


West Asian routes, despite intense price competition, have been a cash cow for India’s state-run airlines in the last three years, during which no other Indian carrier could fly there.

05/09/07 Tarun Shukla and Mehul Srivastava/Livemint

Jet Airways will "cooperate" with Air India to capture a larger share of international air traffic as it does with other global carriers, the company's chairman Naresh Goyal said in New Delhi on Tuesday.



"Air India is doing a great job. It will be a very good airline," Goyal said as he announced the launch of his carrier's new five-flights-a-week service to Toronto via Brussels from Wednesday.

"If we cooperate with Air India, the new Air India, we definitely can get a 50 per cent market share. We look forward to cooperating with Air India," he added, as Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel, listened with attention.

Air India has plans to become a large carrier with a dominant position in both the domestic and international segments after the merger with Indian Airlines that has the government's approval.

Goyal said Brussels will be the hub for his carrier in Europe and eventually proposed to serve at least 50 destinations either on its own or through partnerships with other carriers.

04/09/07 Indo-Asian News Service/Hindustan Times

Jet Airways is launching two new flights connecting Delhi and Chennai with Toronto from September 5 and in October next respectively.

Talking to reporters here on Monday, Ragini Chopra, Vice- president (corporate communications) said the five-times-a-week flight will also connect to New York, via its hub in Brussels.

She said Jet Airways also plans to introduce flights between Hyderabad and Toronto. "To start with, we will be launching services from Hyderabad via Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, and introduce direct flights from the city once the Shamshabad International Airport is fully operational".

She said the airline was awaiting permission to fly aircraft to West Asia and should be launching the services to the region by early 2008.

27/08/07 PTI/Times of India

Jet Airways, India's premier airline, and Travelocity, a global leader in online travel, today announced an exclusive travel agreement, which will lead to Travelocity's highly successful hotel offerings being available through the Jet Airways website. This agreement will enable travellers to book hotels in India via the highly successful Jet Airways website: 'Jetairways.com'.



This hotel booking service, leveraging Travelocity's proprietary data base of hotels, will complement the enhanced air booking engine on Jetairways.com, which attracts over 1.25 million visitors per month.

The agreement between India's premier airline and the sixth largest travel agency in the US represents an innovative and first-to-market initiative for Jet Airways to offer real-time hotel bookings online, in conjunction with Travelocity. This comes as part of Jet Airway's growing commitment to offer customers more-than-air on its enhanced web site.

This also marks the first Travelocity Partner Network relationship announced in India, and it follows Travelocity India's' recent launch of the Travelocity.co.in site. The Indian travelling public will be able to access real-time online Indian hotel comparison shopping, and be able to progress to make instantly confirmed hotel bookings via Travelocity's tried and tested, secure technology via the Jet Airways site. Travellers, via the Jet Airways site, will also gain access to Travelocity's range of value-added insider information on hotels which may include background information on the hotel, photographs, real traveller reviews, ratings, interactive maps and streaming videos.

Indian hotel suppliers participating in Travelocity's 'Net Rate' hotel program can now broaden their online distribution for the first time via a major Indian airline website.

Gaurang Shetty, Vice President – Marketing, Jet Airways stated: "We are extremely pleased to be the first airline in India to embrace genuine real time online hotel bookings, and to be working with a world leader in online travel, Travelocity. Visitors to the Jet Airways site will be able to book hotels online with complete confidence, and be assured of instant booking confirmations in real-time while they are online thanks to Travelocity's behind-the-scenes innovation and choice of great hotel value and deals."



Roshan Mendis, Director of Supplier Relations and Partnerships for the Travelocity group in Asia Pacific said: "Partnerships are a very important part of Travelocity's global business. As our first Travel Partner deal in India, this new relationship represents a win-win arrangement for Jet Airways, Travelocity, hotel suppliers and Indian travellers. Our new business relationship with Jet Airways represents supplier confidence in, and a powerful endorsement of, our unparalleled hotel booking technology, range of hotels and customer service."

Travelers will now be able to book hotels in India through the Web site of a private carrier, Jet Airways, following its agreement with a key U.S.-based travel agency, the airline said in a statement Monday.

Jet Airways will use Travelocity's proprietary data base of hotels to complement its air booking engine on Jetairways.com, which attracts more than 1.25 million visitors every month, the statement said.

Travelocity, based in Southlake, Texas, is the sixth largest travel agency in the United States.

Travelocity has been adding Indian hotels to its 'Net Rate' hotel program, comprising more than 30,000 hotels, since May 2006.

Jet Airways, with a fleet of 62 aircraft, operates more than 340 daily flights to 50 destinations in India and abroad, including London, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Bangkok and Katmandu.

It plans to extend its international operations to North America, Europe, Africa and Asia in coming years.