Jet Airways Connects Three Major Commercial Cities With Its New Daily Flights From Mumbai To San Francisco Via Shanghai, Effective June 14, 2008

Released on: May 29, 2008, 11:59 pm

Press Release Author: Parinaz Driver

Industry: Transportation & Logistics

Press Release Summary: May 26, 2008: Jet Airways, India\'s premier international
airline will commence its daily services from Mumbai to San Francisco via Shanghai,
effective June 14, 2008. Jet Airways will thus become the first Indian carrier to
operate daily non-stop flights to Shanghai from Mumbai and onward to San Francisco.


Press Release Body: Jet Airways' launch of these new flights will connect the
economic and commercial hubs of Mumbai, Shanghai and San Francisco. With the growing
importance of trade and commerce between India & China and the strong presence of
both the Chinese and Indian communities in San Francisco area,Jet Airways' will
cater to large volumes of business and leisure travel between these cities. Jet
Airways' flights to San Francisco via Shanghai will offer its passengers the
advantage of reduced regular flying time, benefiting the business traveler.

Jet Airways will operate these transpacific flights with the airline's brand new
Boeing 777-300ER aircraft which will offer unprecedented levels of luxury, privacy
and comfort in the air, including First Class suites with the world\'s longest
airline beds, private closets,dining tables for two, and 23\" flat-screens.Première
(business) class seats offer what are considered the most comfortable Business Class
seats in the sky that convert to 73\"-long totally flat beds.Leg-room in Economy is
more generous than the norm - and passengers in all three classes have access to the
state-of-the-art Panasonic eX2 entertainment system, complete with 200+ movies,games
and endless music choices.

Jet Airways to San Francisco International Airport will also be the airline\'s fourth
daily departure from India to North America,following new launches of service from
New York\'s JFK and Newark airports,and Toronto Pearson International Airport,within
the past year. San Francisco is a popular tourist and business destination and with
the commencement of these new flights Jet Airways expects the route to prove one of
its most popular sectors.

Announcing the launch of these new flights, Mr. Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial
Officer, Jet Airways, said,"With the introduction of Jet Airways' new transpacific
service to San Francisco via Shanghai, we continue our airline\'s unprecedented
expansion throughout North America.This bares testimony to our team\'s
accomplishments of launching four new long-haul routes in less than a year to North
America. This takes forward, our Chairman's, Naresh Goyal's vision that's by 2010,
the airline should be rated among the top five airlines in the world. Having
changed the way people fly in India, we are now taking to the world our very own
brand of service and style.\"

For further information about the flight schedule, passengers are requested to
contact the Jet Airways toll-free number on 3989-3333 or 18-00-22-55-22 or your
travel agent or log onto our website: www.jetairways.com

Jet Airways
Public Relations
New Delhi & Mumbai, India
May 2008

Ragini Chopra
Vice President - Corporate Communications & PR
New Delhi, India
Tel: +91-11-4164 5080
Fax: +91-11-4609 5084
raginic@jetairways.com

A.K. Sivanandan
Sr. General Manager - PR
New Delhi, India
Tel: +91-11-2652 3357
Fax: +91-11-2652 3348
asivanandan@jetairways.com

Srirupa Sen
Manager - PR
Mumbai, India
Tel: +91-22-2852 3648
Fax: +91-22-2920 4437
ssen@jetairways.com

Web Site: http://www.jetairways.com

Contact Details: Jet Airways (India) Ltd. S.M. Centre,
Andheri-Kurla Road,
Andheri (East),
Mumbai - 400059
India
Phone: +91 22 4019 1000
Fax: +91 22 2920 1313
pdriver@jetairways.com

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