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Brewin reveals further expansion for Jet
Indian airline Jet Airways will underline its intention to go head-to-head with rivals by launching a daily service from Heathrow to Delhi this winter and increase its frequency to Mumbai to twice daily.
The expansion, only two months after the carrier’s inaugural international flight, comes shortly after it placed an order at the Paris Air Show for 20 new aircraft.
In a further move, Jet will also launch services from Brussels to New York this winter.
Former BA executive Dan Brewin, Jet’s UK and Ireland general manager, told TravelMole yesterday: “We don’t yet have a date for the new flights but we expect it to be at the start of the winter schedule. We also expect Mumbai to be a morning departure and Delhi in the evening.”
Brewin denied the airline was expanding too fast, insisting it has to react quickly to market developments.
“It’s true we are expanding at pace but we are capitalising on the opportunities that are arising out of changes in the aero political scene between the UK and India,” he explained. “You have to move quickly or someone else will come in.”
Jet, which is competing against BA, Virgin and Bmi, currently lease aircraft from South African Airways. Brewin said the two-year deal will tie the carrier over until delivery begins next year of its newly-ordered ten A330 and ten 777 aircraft.
“The lease gives us time to equip ourselves with our own fleet,” he said.
Since the launch of its inaugural London-Mumbai service on May 24, load factors have been in the 70s, said Brewin, with the VFR market performing strongly.
He admitted however that the corporate arena was a “challenge”.
“But we are not established yet,” said Brewin. “We are not known. We need to establish a product and reputation and that will come in time.”
Report by Steve Jones
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