Bookings for domestic and international flights on private carrier Jet Airways went up nearly 30% since the airline returned to normal operations. The carrier, which cancelled over 400 flights in the past five days following mass sick leave by its pilots, is back in the skies with bookings in full swing.
An official from Jet’s revenue department said,” We had a decent number of seat bookings by passengers on our domestic network on Monday. In a day or two, we hope to touch our regular mark of getting over 23,000 passengers figure declined to 14,000 in the first two days due to the mass protest by pilots on September 8 and in the last two days, the bookings dropped to 7,000.
In a bid to revive its brand image, Jet had on Sunday evening announced a 50% discount on its domestic routes. Wolfgang Prock-schaur , CEO, Jet Airways , told FE,”We hope to welcome travelers back abroad Jet Airways ‘ and Jet Airways Konnect extensive domestic services with these low, limited –time fares.”
Jet flies to 63 domestic destinations and internationally. it flies to New York , Toronto , Brussels , London , Hong Kong , Singapore , Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Bangkok, Katmandu, Dhaka , Kuwait , Bahrain , Muscat, Doha . Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah, Sharjah and Riyadh.
As per Directorate General of Civil Aviation statistics, Jet has a market share of 18.9% and had a minimal 3.6% flight cancellations in July.
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