Jet Airways introduces 'Seat Select' Option

Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, today announced a new customer-centric initiative, providing guests the opportunity to reserve their preferred seats well before their flight departure date.

Guests can reserve their preferred seats on domestic and select international routes for a nominal charge at the time of making a flight booking on the airline website jetairways.com, the Jet Airways mobile app or through a travel agent.

In case the flight booking has already been made, guests can also use the ‘Manage Booking’ facility on jetairways.com and mobile app to reserve their preferred seats.

The Seat Select feature is applicable for window, aisle and middle seats from row 11 to 15 and for exit row 24 of the Economy cabin for booking anytime between 331 days and up to 48 hours prior to departure. This feature is available only on flights operated by Jet Airways’ Boeing 737 aircraft.

Mr Gaurang Shetty, Sr. Vice-President, Commercial, Jet Airways, said, “Jet Airways constantly explores new opportunities for enhancing the experience of our guests at all stages of their travel with us. The Seat Select option provides Jet Airways guests another means to plan their travel as per their choice with greater ease and convenience. We are confident that this latest initiative from Jet Airways will prove to be extremely popular with our guests.”

Guests traveling in Economy can reserve their seats for a nominal charge of INR 500 on domestic sectors and INR 800 on international sectors exclusive of taxes. This facility is complimentary for JetPrivilege Platinum and Gold members. All guests travelling in Première can pre-reserve their seats at no cost.

For seats reserved outside India, guests will be charged an equivalent amount in their local currency.

* Seat Select for exit row 24 will be available for travel effective October 12, 2015. 

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SpiceJet initiates Major Network Expansion

SpiceJet, the country’s favourite low-cost carrier, has announced more frequencies and new onward connections to its schedule from Delhi effective from 25th October, 2015. The airline has augmented its frequencies between Delhi – Chennai (3rd flight added), Delhi – Kolkata (3rd flight added), Delhi –Udaipur (2nd flight added) and Delhi –Ahmedabad (2nd flight added). Onward connections have also been added on the Delhi – Madurai and Delhi – Agartala routes.

SpiceJet unveiled an all new winter schedule, with 291 daily flight from the current 250 daily flights, adding 10 new sectors, 30 new frequencies and 22 connecting flights. The airline also announced the induction of 6 new aircrafts to its existing fleet strength in the next 30 days, a first of its kind initiative in the history of Indian aviation.

Shilpa Bhatia, Sr. VP and Head of Sales and Distribution, SpiceJet, said, “We have been speedily moving on the growth path by consistently adding new flights to enhance our overall network. With the new network schedule we are offering better timings, increased frequencies. With this enhancement we have significantly growing our capacity by 16%. Our new winter flight schedule adds considerable depth to our existing operations to cater to the peak demand while enhancing connectivity and boosting customer value”.

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