Jet annouces Thiruvananthapuram Muscat flight

Jet Airways, will connect Thiruvananthapuram and Muscat, with daily, direct flights, effective September 15, 2008.

Jet Airways will operate these services with its internationally-configured Boeing 737-800 aircraft with a two-class configuration: Première and Economy.

The new flight will complement Jet Airways’ existing daily service on the Mumbai-Muscat sector.

Jet 9W 530 (Thiruvananthapuram-Muscat) will depart Thiruvananthapuram at 0755 hrs and arrive Muscat at 1030 hrs. On the return leg, flight 9W 529 (Muscat-Thiruvananthapuram) will depart Muscat at 0030 hrs and arrive Thiruvananthapuram at 0535 hrs.

Announcing the launch of these services, Mr. Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, CEO, Jet Airways said, “In a remarkably short span of time, Jet Airways has established a dominant presence on the important Kerala-West Asia sector, on the strength of its superior in-flight product and service standards. In a bid to further enhance its connectivity on this sector, and in line with passenger demand, the airline is proud to be the first private Indian airline to connect Muscat and Thiruvananthapuram.”

With the launch of this new flight, Jet Airways will fly to six destinations in the Gulf (Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Abu Dhabi and Dubai) from five gateway points in India: Kozhikode, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Mumbai and Delhi.