Battle for frequent flyers breaks out as Jet Airways offers bonus miles

Jet Airways offering bonus frequent flyer miles to passengers on Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai-Ahmedabad routes

The battle for frequent flyers has intensified and rival airline Jet Airways is upgrading its loyalty programmes ahead of Vistara's launch on January 9.

Jet Airways is offering bonus frequent flyer miles to passengers on Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai-Ahmedabad routes (which are Vistara's launch routes), according to the airline website.

Vistara is offering a value based frequent flyer programme called Club Vistara, wherein loyalty points are accrued based on actual spend on the ticket fare rather than miles travelled.

The airline has done away with the physical loyalty card. Vistara is offering 500 bonus points to customers on enrollment in the programme and extra 200 bonus points on bookings.

Jet Airways, which earlier this month dropped its no frills model Konnect, is offering additional miles on Vistara routes.

Economy class passengers will get double the number of miles and business class will get three times the number of miles which are offered now. The additional miles are being offered only on Mumbai-Delhi and Mumbai-Ahmedabad routes and for travel between January-March.