Jet Airways Konnect serves as a Jet Airways division and is a low cost airline. It is one of the leading private domestic airlines in India.
This air service was founded on May 8, 2009 and enjoys identical designation as Jet Airways being its subsidiary.
It is headquartered in Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai as the primary hub and the secondary hubs are the Indira Gandhi and Chennai International Airports.
Jet Konnect has six ATR 72-500s and 2 Boeing 737-800s. Their series of flight numbers are 9W 2000-2999.
Jet Konnect was launched to use Jet Airways’ spare aircrafts routes that were discontinued owing to low passenger load by the parent company, Jet Airways.
The aim of diverting to more profitable routes that had factors of high passenger load was the reason to initiate Jet Konnect.
However, the low cost airline JetLite was also operated by Jet Airways. Jet Airways launched Jet Konnect; a new airline avoiding regulatory delays by averting expanding that would have implied moving assets from Jet Airways to JetLite and also moving excess aircraft as they have individual operator codes.
Jet Konnect flights cover 17 routes from Mumbai to Delhi, Ahmedabad, Chennai, Mangalore, Kochi, Bhopal, and more.
Similarly, there are flights from Delhi to Amritsar, Mumbai and Vadodara, from Chennai to Kochi, Madurai, Bangalore and Coimbatore, from Mangalore to Mumbai and from Bangalore to Mangalore, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Pune.
Jet Konnect Airlines also offer identical frequent flyer programs as Jet Airways in the name of JetPrivilege.
The flyers can buy from in-flight menu and the offers include vegetarian as well as non-vegetarian Combo meals, besides, cookies, cold and hot beverages such as coffee, tea, sandwiches, fruit juices and brownies.
Jet Konnect was launched to cover two-tier cities and to serve as economic service airline. However, it initiated as cheap Jet Konnect flights creating a trend.
The fares of this flight is 10 to 15% lesser than the parent airlines, besides it is also a no frill airlines.
Jet Konnect assists common man to save time by paying little more than the trains. Jet provides call center number 39893333 for cities within India.
However, prefixing city code is mandatory and for international flights call 1800225522.
