Jet Airways Announces Launch of New Flights from Mumbai to San Francisco Via Shanghai,May 05,2008

Released on: April 10, 2008, 1:48 am

Press Release Author: Parinaz Driver

Industry: Transportation & Logistics

Press Release Summary: April 03, 2008: Jet Airways, India\'s premier international
airline today announces the launch of its daily services from Mumbai to San
Francisco via Shanghai, effective May 5, 2008**.

Press Release Body: With the commencement of this new flight Jet Airways will become
the first Indian carrier to operate non-stop daily flights to Shanghai from Mumbai
and onward to San Francisco.

Jet Airways will become the first private Indian airline to connect the financial
heart of India, Mumbai with \"Everybody's Favorite City,\" San Francisco. With the
famed Silicon Valley to its south - the heart of America's technology revolution has
a large concentration of Indian IT professionals who have made an invaluable
contribution towards Indo-American cooperation in high technology areas.

This new flight will drastically cut down the traditional flying time between India
and the US West Coast, besides tapping into latent passenger demand by connecting
two prominent Asian financial and commercial hubs- Mumbai and Shanghai. As only the
second airline worldwide to connect Shanghai and San Francisco, Jet Airways will
cater to the large volumes of business and leisure travel between the two
cities,fuelled in part by the strong Chinese presence in the latter city. San
Francisco, incidentally, is home to the largest Chinatown in the United States.

Jet Airways' flight to San Francisco International Airport will also be the
airline\'s fourth daily departure from India to North America, following new launches
of service from New York\'s JFK and Newark airports, and Toronto Pearson
International Airport, within the past year. San Francisco is a popular tourist and
business destination, with the launch of its famed 'white-glove' services to the
city, Jet Airways expects the route to prove one of its most popular sectors.

Announcing the launch of these new flights, Naresh Goyal, Chairman, Jet Airways,
said, "With the introduction of this new transpacific route to San Francisco aboard
Jet Airways, we continue our airline\'s unprecedented expansion throughout North
America. I am immensely proud of our team\'s accomplishments of launching four new
long-haul routes in less than a year. My vision is that by 2010, the airline should
be rated among the top five airlines in the world. Having changed the way people
fly in India, we are now taking to the world our very own brand of service and style
that bespeaks the spirit of New India.


Jet Airways
Public Relations
New Delhi & Mumbai, India
April 2008

Jet Airways (I) Ltd

Ragini Chopra
Vice President - Corporate Communications & PR
New Delhi, India
Tel: +91-11-4164 5080
Fax: +91-11-4609 5084
raginic@jetairways.com

A.K. Sivanandan
Sr. General Manager - PR
New Delhi, India
Tel: +91-11-2652 3357
Fax: +91-11-2652 3348
asivanandan@jetairways.com

Srirupa Sen
Manager - PR
Mumbai, India
Tel: +91-22-2852 3648
Fax: +91-22-2920 4437
ssen@jetairways.com

Web Site: http://www.jetairways.com

Contact Details: Jet Airways (India) Ltd. S.M. Centre,
Andheri-Kurla Road,
Andheri (East),
Mumbai - 400059
India
Phone: +91 22 4019 1000
Fax: +91 22 2920 1313
pdriver@jetairways.com

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