Jet Airways announces expansion of services to Gulf

The Mumbai-Sharjah flight, beginning from October 18, would be the airline's sixth daily flight to the UAE from Mumbai, in addition to the existing four dailes to Dubai and one daily flight to Abu Dhabi, an airline spokesperson said.

Jet Airways would also resume its services to Kuwait and Bahrain from Kochi. While the Kochi-Kuwait service would be four times a week, the Kochi-Bahrain flight would operate three days a week.

The introduction of these flights would "further strengthen Jet's presence in the Gulf, the spokesperson said, adding that the airline would deploy its latest Boeing 737-800 aircraft, offering a two-class configuration.

"Having emerged as among the leading airlines on the highly competitive Indo-Gulf sector in a relatively short period of time, we are confident that the new services will prove popular with our guests," Sudheer Raghavan, Jet's Chief Commercial Officer, said.