Jet Airways to launch daily direct services from Mumbai to Riyadh and Jeddah effective June 14, 2009

Jet Airways will launch services to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the introduction of daily, direct services from Mumbai to Saudi Arabian administrative and commercial capital cities of Riyadh and Jeddah, effective June 14, 2009. These cities will be the airline’s seventh and eighth destinations respectively in the airline's growing Gulf network. The airline will operate the new flights using a state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft. Flight 9W 524 will depart Mumbai at 19:30 hrs, arriving in Riyadh at 21:05 hrs. Flight 9W 523 will then depart Riyadh at 22:05 hrs, arriving in Mumbai at 04:30 hrs. Flight 9W 522 will depart Mumbai at 19:00 hrs, arriving in Jeddah at 21:30 hrs. While flight 9W 521 will then depart Jeddah at 22:30 hrs, arriving in Mumbai at 06:10 hrs.

According to Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, CEO, Jet Airways, “Jet Airways is delighted to introduce daily services to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia from Mumbai. The introduction of these new flights will serve to further strengthen our Gulf network, better enabling us to offer passengers seamless connectivity and a world-class product on the Indo-Gulf sector.” Jet Airways currently flies daily to Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi from several Indian cities.

Source://travelbizmonitor.com

Five free flights every month with American Express

Following the launch of the prestigious and much coveted SriLankan Airlines Platinum American Express Card in January this year, American Express® – the credit card acquired and issued solely by Nations Trust Bank PLC announced an exciting new value proposition targeted exclusively for Cardmembers.

This new proposition will see American Express® offering free tickets to five destinations each month from April until the end of the year, to all their SriLankan Airlines Platinum American Express Cardmembers. With 2 million FlySmiLes miles up for grabs, Cardmembers can look forward to being one of the five lucky winners to win free flights each month to exciting destinations such as the UK, Dubai, Bangkok, Singapore and India.

Increased spend on the Card will offer Cardmembers greater chances at winning, with each Rs.10,000 purchase made on their SriLankan Airlines Platinum American Express Card, offering the Cardmember one chance at the lucky draw. Purchases of up to Rs.50, 000 would offer the Cardmember five chances at the lucky draw, and so on.

Commenting on this, Lewie Diasz, Chief Manager Cards and Consumer Assets at Nations Trust Bank PLC said, “This season commences on a value filled note to our Cardmembers as they have the opportunity to win free flights to key destinations. With five flights being offered every month until the end of the year, this new campaign targeted exclusively to our Platinum Cardmembers offers unmatched advantages and privileges. We are delighted to reward our Cardmembers with such premium offers – an added incentive that will certainly be of great value to our Cardmembers.”

Source:dailymirror.lk

5 new routes for Kingfisher

Kingfisher Airlines, India’s market-leading airline and the first and only five-star airline from India, on Thursday announced that it had commenced flights on five new domestic routes as part of its ‘Summer 2009’ schedule that began on March 29, 2009.

The five new routes launched by Kingfisher Airlines are, Mumbai-Vadodara, Mumbai-Thiruvananthapuram, Hyderabad-Bhubaneswar, Hyderabad-Aurangabad and Bangalore-Kozhikode.

Source:expressbuzz.com