India-based Jet Airways changed up their North America routes earlier thisyear, given that the airline has been bleeding money for a long time. The airline used to operate a mini-hub out of Brussels, and operated flights from Newark and Toronto to Brussels, with connecting flightsto Delhi and Mumbai.
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As someone with family in India, this is wonderful news to me. I've flown most of the carriers in India, and Jet Airways is considerably better than the alternatives. The only downside was the lack of (official) alliance membership. If this means it will become a full SkyTeam member, that would be even better news.
Air India nonstops to JFK, EWR and ORD rarely cross 80% loadfactors, and mostly hover around 70%.. I wonder, what destinations are left for Jet Airways to choose in North America..
With this new arrangement, it would be great if Delta also flew to AUH or DXB, since Jet Airways has quite a few useful connections from the United Arab Emirates to India, including smaller airports they don't server from AMS. Of course I don't imagine this is likely.
Air India nonstops to JFK, EWR and ORD rarely cross 80% loadfactors, and mostly hover around 70%.. I wonder, what destinations are left for Jet Airways to choose in North America. San Francisco could be a possible destination as Air India constantly has nearly 90% loads on 3 per week frequency, but Air India will soon increase it to 7 per week as well..
@Abhinav Agarwal - I believe those load factors are sometimes deliberate. flights this long operated by 777-200s cannot operate at close to full capacity. They leave a little bit extra capacity untouched to account for certain risk variables of the flight path, weather conditions..etc so basically 75% is the 100% on these nonstop sectors . If they were operated by A350XWBs then they can do so at 100%
Air India is way ahead in terms of international network. They recently increased frequency of DEL-SFO route to 6x weekly and are going to launch DEL-MAD-DEL 3X weekly from 1december, 2016. Their code share partners also give more options than that of 9W.
They've had this arrangement with AF / KLM for some time. However, you only earn the base Award Miles. No Level Miles or Elite Bonuses. Not sure how it works with Delta.
https://www.flyingblue.com/earn-and-spend-miles/airlines/partner/188/jet-airways.html
Code sharing should be made illegal. It reduces competition and Jacks up the price.
I enjoy flying on Jet Airways. The service and the cabin is very soothing. Glad to see this development.
The most interesting development here is Delta cozying up to an Etihad Invested Airline. Etihad owns about 24% of Jet Airways, looks like all that rhetoric against ME carriers is falling flat on its face.
Also, Jet Airways is part of Etihad Alliance, so ceertainly don't expect them to be part of Sky Team.
Looks like it's confirmed that they'll fly 77W on YYZ-AMS-DEL starting Jan 2017. That's a good chance to try their First Class product.