New Delhi: The domestic lenders led by the SBI on Thursday said they would continue with the bidding process to save the cash-strapped airline Jet Airways. On Wednesday evening, all flight operations of the Jet Airways have been suspended “temporarily” in lack of immediate interim funding. The SBI-led consortium said the banks were hopeful that only the bidding process to sale the stakes can save the saddled airline. “The lenders after due deliberations decided that the best way ...Read More

Mumbai: Cash-strapped airline Jet Airways on Wednesday announced temporary suspension of its flight operations effective today. 'With immediate effect, Jet Airways is compelled to cancel all its international and domestic flights. The last flight will operate today,' the company said in a statement. 'Late last night, Jet Airways was informed by the State Bank of India (SBI), on behalf of the consortium of Indian Lenders, that they are unable to consider its request for critical interim fun...Read More

New Delhi: The Minister for Civil Aviation Suresh Prabhu today directed Secretary and senior officials of DGCA to take stock of grounding of planes by Jet Airways, Advance Bookings, Cancellations, Refund and Safety issues. As per the direction of Minister, DGCA reviewed the performance of Jet Airways on Operational, Airworthiness & Passenger facilitation today. Current availability of aircraft in the fleet for operation is 41 and accordingly scheduled for 603 domestic flights and 382 inter...Read More

Facing grave money crisis, private air operator Jet Airways has cancelled the flights connecting Mumbai and Bhuj. With this there's no more air connectivity between Mumbai and Kutch available. Jet Airways was operating two flights per day between Mumbai and Bhuj - one in the morning and the other in the evening. A few days ago, Jet had cancelled evening flight on this route. Last week, Jet has also cancelled its morning flight till further notice. Online booking is also closed for both fligh...Read More

Gandhinagar: Jet Airways, India's premier full-service international airline, is set to introduce 28 new flights in the coming month.   In a series of industry-firsts, Jet Airways will introduce daily flights from Indore, connecting the ‘largest city in Madhya Pradesh’ to Jodhpur as well as to Vadodara. In other notable firsts, Jet Airways is also set to commence flight operations between Chandigarh and Lucknow, Ahmedabad and Jodhpur as well as Vadodara and Jaipur. Jet Airwa...Read More

Rajkot: A Jet Airway aircraft with around 90 passengers on board got bird-hit during take-off at the Rajkot airport this morning and had to abandon departure, Airport Director B K Das said. The flight number 9W2398 for Mumbai from here with scheduled departure time of 0640 got bird-hit during take off. Das said that the departure was abandoned and the repairing of the affected part of the aircraft was being done. 'It would take off only after the completion of rep...Read More

Ahmedabad: A Jet Airways flight from Mumbai to Delhi with 125 people on board had to made an emergency landing at Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport here owing to a threat message. Airport Director Manoj Gangal said that the flight number 9W339 with 116 passengers and 9 crew members on board took off from Mumbai at 0255 hrs. Its pilot was later informed that there were hijackers on board with explosives. 'It contacted the ATC at Ahmedabad and we arranged for a prio...Read More

Indore: Jet Airways (India) has written to Devi Ahilyabai Holkar Airport authorities in Indore to allow it to operate two new flights that it plans to introduce on the Indore-Ahmedabad-Indore and Indore-Jaipur-Indore routes from July. "We have given approval to Jet Airways for operations of direct flights between Indore-Jaipur and Indore-Ahmedabad ," Indore airport's director Aryama Sanyal said. She said the airline plans to start flights to these two destinations mid July.She said thou...Read More

Panaji: A Jet Airways flight with 161 people on board veered off the runway at Dabolim Airport in Goa while aligning for take off to Mumbai early today, with 15 passengers suffering injuries during evacuation. Navy said its prompt response in rescuing passengers onboard the flight averted the incident from turning into a "catastrophe". The incident took place at around 5 AM when flight 9W 2374, which had arrived from Dubai and bound for Mumbai, was about to take off. When the evacuation...Read More

New Delhi: Jet Airways on Friday said passengers can carry power banks only in their cabin bags and not in check-in baggages. In recent times, safety concerns have been expressed in certain quarters about electronic devices, especially those having lithium batteries being carried in check-in baggages. Against this backdrop, Jet Airways said that in the interest of safety, power banks would be allowed only in hand baggages. "In the interest of safety and as mandated by the DGCA (Director...Read More