Jet Airways to launch London-Mumbai daily flights on May 23

Jet Airways to launch London-Mumbai daily flights

Jet Airways, the largest privately owned airline in India, will launch May 23 a daily non-stop service from London's Heathrow Airport to Mumbai, the airline announced Friday.

Flights will operate from Heathrow Terminal 3, departing at 21:25 hrs, arriving at 10.50 hrs the following morning in Mumbai. Jet Airways will be using A340-300 aircraft on this route, with 38 business class seats (flat beds) and 231 economy (32 inch pitch) seats.

Return tickets are priced at £399.

http://www.moneyplans.net/frontend2-verify-6623.html

<wonders how much LHR -> Mumbai -> Chennai will be>

Anyway, from a quick look at their website: Do people know that over-65s can get a 20% concession discount? That's almost worth aging 13 years overnight for

HI
Juust found a flight with Jet going out nov 485 pounds LHR to BOM> with SOUHALL TRAVEL

Hi

sorry it read SOUTHALL TRAVEL

I wonder if the £399 price that drwho quotes is an introductory special and the £485 price is the regular??

Nick: I'll have to look into that seniors discount as, unfortunately, I hit the magic number this summer. I wasn't sure how it worked for non-residents when I checked it out last year and lately I've had trouble with their web-site -- maybe it's a Mac or browser problem, or perhaps because I block pop-ups. Will check further, though. It was nice getting the senior concession on rail this year (60+) as it makes the jump to ac class easier to take.

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no big deal tony, but you can edit posts by clicking the 'edit' button at the lower right hand side of the post. If you catch typos fairly quickly, your post doesn't even show that it was edited.

Is this the first step of a series to steps to come, when Jet Airways will surpass Air India in providing quality, realiable, and affordable travel to India? I hope so.

I love this competition of air travel of Indian owned companies. Yippy!

Well, -m2-, I'm amazed! Anyway, here is the web page I see they do a 'youth' discount for those aged 12-29 as well.

Just wish they wouldn't discriminate against those of us in between!

These are the senior citizen fares http://www.airsahara.net/airsahara/USDFares.jsp
Indian airlines also offers discounts for seniors.

How do these prices compare with other mainstream airlines?

Not very good. You can get cheaper fares elsewhere.

Thanks. I was looking forward to Jet's service from the US. But if they are not low cost, foget it.. Unless they have a non-stop supersonic flight that gets me to India in a few hours..