Jet airways more than 180 flights were canceled due to this.jet Airways routed more than 13000 Passengers through other channels including Air India.This all happens as jet airways sacked its 5 pilots. Meanwhile, the Bombay High Court passed an order restraining the airways’ pilots union from continuing their strike. A bench of Chief Justice Swantanter Kumar and Justice A M Khanwilkar on a petition by the airlines, also issued notice to the National Aviator’s Guild (NAG) and sought a reply within two weeks.

The airline had submitted that under the Industrial Disputes Act, going on strike while conciliation proceedings were underway was prohibited. The pilots are protesting against the sacking of two of their key colleagues. Jet CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer is making all possible efforts to save passengers from inconvenience and restore normalcy.

The new economy service jet airways Konnect by the premier airlines Jet Airways is going to increase its flights routes from 3rd Sep-09. This will increase Jet Konnect passangers from Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, chennai and Hyderabad. jet Konnect already flying more than 130 flights daily. Jet airways Konnect will start its flights on new routes where earlier Jet airways was having its flights.

In June 2009 they carried almost 3.7 million passengers, and in July they carried marginally fewer passengers at 3.6 million.

Good news? Not quite, because they are making less money per seat they sell than they were in 2008. This is the effect of the shift towards the low-cost model — sell more seats but earn less per seat.

The latest data collated by the Directorate-General of Civil Aviation show that during July this year the airlines flew 35.97 lakhs passengers or almost 3.6 million, registering a growth of 18 per cent compared with the same period in the previous year.

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“We will look at it (merger) once the time is right,” Jet Airways CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told ET. It is not clear what the new brand name will be once the proposed merger goes through.

Sahara India had filed an application on March 26 with the Bombay High Court, claiming Jet Airways had defaulted on payment towards the purchase of Air Sahara. Jet acquired Air Sahara for Rs 1,450 crore in April 2007, and subsequently renamed it JetLite. The case is still being heard in the court.

The Naresh Goyal-controlled Jet Airways launched Jet Konnect in May to arrest the falling load factor on its full service airline. Jet was forced to start a new service, as the ongoing legal dispute with Sahara prevented it from transferring planes to JetLite, which is a separate airline. Also, to operate the flights under JetLite, it had to go through the time-consuming process of seeking regulatory approvals and air operator certificates. Instead, the loss-making carrier chose to start a new low-cost service.

In fact, Jet plans to transfer two-thirds of its domestic capacity into Jet Konnect by October. After the transfer, there will be 19 Boeing 737 planes and 10 ATR planes under Jet Konnect. JetLite, which posted a marginal profit of Rs 2 crore in the quarter ended June, has 23 planes in an all-economy configuration.

An analyst says it makes sense to fly with a single-brand rather two separate brands providing same facilities. JetLite and Jet Konnect have common features in terms of ticket price, buying meals on-board and earning miles on the Jet Privilege membership. Also, the routes of both offerings have been so planned that there are no overlap, said the analyst with domestic brokerage firm, who requested not to be named.

With corporate travel having slowed down, airlines have been forced to slash fares to lure passengers. Traffic in the business class segment has almost dried up. According to data from the ministry of civil aviation, domestic airlines carried 21 million passengers in the first half of 2009, 2 million less than the previous year.

Jet Airways reported a loss of Rs 225 crore in the quarter ended June, compared with net profit for the same quarter of FY09. Sales declined 26% in the quarter to Rs 2,080 crore. The company currently operates a fleet of 86 aircraft.

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‘Boarding Card Delights’ currently has 13 established brands as programme partners, across four categories- Hotels, Dining/Restaurants, Car Rentals and Retail. These include Marriott® International hotels in India, Domino’s Pizza India Ltd, Welcome Heritage, The Park Hotels, Sarovar Hotels, The Lemon Tree Hotels, Preferred Hotel Group, Sterling Holiday Resorts, Hertz, Avis, William Penn, Collection I, Ferns n Petals.

To avail of this attractive offer, guests need to present their Jet Airways/Jet Airways Konnect or JetLite boarding cards, at the various partner establishments/outlets. Boarding cards generated through the Web, SMS and Kiosk Check-in, will be accepted along with their respective photo identification.

Marriott® International hotels in India will offer Jet Airways’ guests 50% discount on food at select restaurants across India, while they dine between 7pm and 9pm on any day in the week.

Mr. Raghavan did not disclose on which routes Jet Konnect will operates its flights and will jet airways keep flights continue on those routes.

Jet airways Vadodara-Mumbai flight was diverted to Ahmedabad. As many as 85 departures and 35 arrivals were delayed till evening, by which time the situation was back to normal.

Due to the heavy rain, water also started accumulating in some navigational aids used by pilots for departures. Two taxiways-Alpha 3 and Foxtrot-had to be temporarily shut for repairs. Airport staff had to maintain a constant vigil and do regular cleaning.

A Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd spokesperson said visibility on the runway was around 600 metres. “As the visibility remained more than 500 metres, the runway was not shut. However, many arriving flights had to circle till they could see the runway clearly. This led to a 30-minute delay in arrivals,” said an airport official. “It had a cascading effect as the arriving aircraft had to be used for following departures as well.”