Jet, Malaysian Airlines ink code-sharing pact

India's leading private carrier Jet Airways today entered into a code-sharing pact with Malaysian Airlines (MAS) enabling passengers to book tickets on each others flights between here and different destinations in India from next month.
   
Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal said the carrier, which currently only flies the Kuala Lumpur-Chennai route, hopes to expand its network in the region and aims to make Kuala Lumpur its Southeast Asian hub in the longer run.
    
Under the pact, Jet Airways will avail code share on MAS flights operating between Kuala Lumpur and Mumbai, New Delhi, Bangalore and Hyderabad.
    
This would help customers enjoy a wider choice of flights and convenient connections in Malaysia and India, Goyal said, while adding Jet Airways had cut capacity and leased out its larger planes to cut operational costs.
    
MAS Managing Director Idris Jala said the arrangement with Jet will allow MAS to capture untapped traffic from secondary points in India through the five Indian gateways
    
The carrier is expecting to capture about 10 per cent of untapped traffic potential from India to Kuala Lumpur and beyond. The value of the traffic potential is between 10 million ringgit and 12 million ringgit (Rs 16.38 crore) annually.