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Jet Airways Konnect, a new economy class service launched by India’s premier international airline "Jet Airways" designed to meet the needs of the low fare segment. It will complement Jet Airways’ full service product, by providing a service that is better suited to cater to a market that desires an economically priced low fare air tickets. Jet Konnect Airlines offers a no-frills, economy class service where guests will be offered attractive and competitive low fares.
Jet Konnect would offer almost all services of the parent carrier and would help the airline cater to the needs of the consumers opting for low-fare services. The only difference will be that Jet Konnect travellers will have to buy their meals on-board. Both Jet Airways and its low-cost carrier JetLite now offer food to their travellers on-board.
The on ground and in flight service will be delivered by Jet Airways staff, the only difference will be that travellers will have to buy their meals on board. Jet Airways Flights will have dedicated aircraft for this service, the flight number range for this service will be unique and will help both guests and travel agents identify the class of service.
Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways commented "Consumer demands are changing rapidly in a dynamic global environment, we believe the Jet Konnect Airlines service will give us the flexibility and speed to deploy capacity to meet these changing trends .” He added that the routes chosen for Konnect were being operated by Jet Airways at 50 per cent load factor. Research indicated that a low fare product on these routes would see load factor exceed 70 per cent and a passenger increase of about 35 per cent.
The Jet Airways Konnect Service will initially operate with two 737 and six ATR aircraft on sectors such as Chennai-Coimbatore, Chennai-Madurai, Chennai-Kochi, Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Mumbai-Bhopal, Mumbai-Udaipur, Bengaluru-Pune, Bengaluru-Mangalore.
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