Jet Airways to enhance connectivity between Kochi and Chennai to Dammam

By On Dec 18, 2013 0

Jet Airways has announced the addition of two daily flights that will further strengthen its growing international network in the Gulf with enhanced flight connectivity into Saudi Arabia. Effective January 15, 2014, Jet Airways will introduce two daily flights from Kochi and Chennai to Dammam in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. While the Chennai flight will be operated via Abu Dhabi to Dammam, the Kochi Dammam will be served by a daily direct flight.

Jet Airways flight 9W 570 will depart from Kochi at 0620 hrs and will arrive into Dammam at 0920 hrs (local time). The return flight 9W 569 will depart Dammam at 1020 (LT) and arrive at Chennai at 1720 hrs (LT). Furthermore, Jet Airways offers its guests from Kochi an evening option to Dammam via Abu Dhabi. 9W 576 Kochi to Abu Dhabi will be rescheduled to depart Kochi at 2040 hrs and arrive into Abu Dhabi at 2330 hrs, which in turn connects to 9W526 Abu Dhabi Dammam.

From Chennai the daily flight 9W 526 will depart at 2015 hrs and arrive into Abu Dhabi at 2325 hrs on January 15, 2014. The flight will depart at 0145 hrs (LT the next day) and will arrive at Dammam at 0210 hrs (LT). On the return leg, 9W 525 will depart from Dammam at 0650 hrs and will arrive at Abu Dhabi at 0915 hrs (LT), and will depart from Abu Dhabi at 1045 hrs to arrive at Chennai at 1615 hrs (LT). Jet Airways guests from Chennai will now have the option of connecting not only to Abu Dhabi, but to several destinations of their choice in Europe and Africa, when they transit over Abu Dhabi on interline and code share flights operated by partner airlines.

Gaurang Shetty, senior vice president – commercial, Jet Airways said, “Jet Airways has already established itself as a prestigious brand in the intensely competitive Indo-Gulf sector in a relatively short period of time. We are confident that the additional services from Kochi and Chennai to Dammam will prove immensely popular with our guests. Introduction of these flights is an important landmark in the evolution and emergence of the airline as India’s premier international airline, as we will now operate over 118 daily flights to key international destinations.”