Sudipta Dev – Mumbai
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Gaurang Shetty
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Jet Airways will launch direct flight from Mumbai to Paris on June 26, 2014. The service to Paris will be offered four days a week i.e. Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and through A 330-200. The airline has also expanded its code share agreement with Air France to offer better connectivity between Europe and India via Paris and increase the traffic between the two countries. For the same, both carriers will use their marketing codes on each other’s flights on the Mumbai-Paris route. The expanded code share will offer guests a more varied option to choose from. This code share is already effective since May 25, 2014.
Speaking more on this, Gaurang Shetty, senior vice president, commercial, Jet Airways stated, “We are providing complimentary services on the route. Sometimes you have both carriers competing at the same time, so the customer does not get a choice of service. But now on the Mumbai-Paris route, Air France is going to operate flights in wee hours, while we are going to operate in the afternoon. Out of Paris, Air France will operate flights at 10 am, while we will operate at 9 pm. So customers now flying between these two cities will have options to choose from.”
The expanded code share agreement will also offer guests access to 23 major cities across Europe. “Air France will place its marketing code on the key routes of Jet Airways’ domestic network connecting major cities like Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata apart from Mumbai, Delhi and Bengaluru,” added Shetty. Moreover, the airline is also exploring the option of operating flights to two international destinations like Jakarta and Ho Chi Minh. However, this plan is still at a nascent stage.
