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Indian carrier plans to launch four Dubai routes

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NEW LAUNCHES: Jet Airways is planning for new routes out of Dubai. (Getty Images)

India's largest private carrier is planning to launch four new routes from Dubai in the next three months, a senior executive has announced.

Jet Airways launched operations to the UAE last year with daily direct flights to Abu Dhabi in April, followed by Dubai in August and is now eyeing more services.

"From Dubai, we are planning to launch flights to four more Indian destinations – Hyderabad, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram and Mangalore," said Abraham Joseph, senior general manager for Jet Airways Middle East and North Africa, in comments published by Emirates Business on Sunday.


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"Talks are in process and we should be able to launch these routes in the next two to three months," he told the paper.

The Indian carrier currently operates daily non-stop flights to Delhi and Mumbai from Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Last month it included Chennai to its route network from Dubai and added one more frequency to Mumbai again from Dubai.

Plans are also afoot to launch daily services from Mumbai each to Jeddah and Riyadh starting June 14.

Asked if the airline was planning any further cuts in airfares this year, Joseph said: "Airfares are already quite low. I do not think we would be able to reduce it any further than what we already have."

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Posted by Umesh Rao, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman on Sunday 24 May 2009 at 16:33 UAE time


Looking at the current difficulties the airline is going through it is difficult to believe that they will be able to launch these new routes. In Oman also they have been talking about launching new routes including Mangalore (rumour?) but nothing has materialised so far.

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