| Jet Airways serves 49 destinations, including 11 cities outside India.
Asia
East Asia
China
Shanghai (Shanghai Pudong International Airport) [starts October 2007] South Asia
India
Agartala
Ahmedabad (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport)
Amritsar (Raja Sansi International Airport)
Aurangabad
Bagdogra
Bangalore (HAL Airport)
Bhavnagar (Bhavnagar Airport)
Bhopal
Bhuj
Calicut
Chandigarh
Chennai (Chennai International Airport)
Cochin
Coimbatore
Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport)
Diu
Goa (Dabolim Airport)
Guwahati
Hyderabad (Begumpet Airport)
Imphal
Indore
Jammu
Jodhpur
Khajuraho
Kochi (Cochin International Airport)
Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)
Kozhikode
Leh
Lucknow (Amausi Airport)
Madurai
Mumbai (Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport) Hub
Nagpur
Patna
Porbandar
Port Blair
Pune
Raipur
Rajkot
Srinagar
Thiruvananthapuram (Thiruvananthapuram International Airport)
Udaipur
Vadodara
Varanasi
Nepal
Kathmandu (Tribhuvan International Airport)
Sri Lanka
Colombo (Bandaranaike International Airport)
South East Asia
Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur International Airport)
Singapore
Singapore (Singapore Changi Airport)
Thailand
Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport)
Europe
Belgium
Brussels (Brussels Airport)[starting August 2007]
United Kingdom
London (London Heathrow International Airport)
North America
USA
Newark (Newark Liberty International Airport) [starting August 2007]
San Francisco (San Francisco International Airport) [starts October 2007]
Canada
Toronto (Toronto Pearson International Airport) [starting July 2007]
Merger with Air Sahara
On January 2006 Jet Airways announced that it was to buy Air Sahara for $500 million in an all-cash deal. Everything, including Sahara's assets and infrastructure, would belong to Jet Airways. This deal would have been the biggest in India's aviation history and the resulting airline the country's largest, had it gone through.
Market reaction to the deal was mixed, with analysts suggesting that Jet Airways was paying too much for Air Sahara. The deadline for the deal to be completed was June 21, 2006. Jet Airways claimed that a final sticking point was the government's delay in approving Jet chairman Naresh Goyal's appointment to the Air Sahara board. Air Sahara countered that Jet Airways had engineered this impasse by delaying the request for such approval, as a way of extricating themselves from a deal they now regretted. Jet was said to be willing to go ahead with the deal only if the originally agreed price was lowered by 20-25% on the basis of Air Sahara's mounting debts, an option which was firmly rejected by Air Sahara. Finally both sides confirmed that the deal was off.
Following the failure of the deals, the companies have now filed lawsuits seeking damages from each other.
The Bombay High Court on Friday 22nd September allowed Jet Airways to withdraw Rs 1,500 crore deposited by it for acquiring rival Air Sahara. "Jet will have the right to withdraw Rs 1,500 crore against bank guarantee of the same amount," Justice D K Deshmukh said in his order. The amount in the escrow account will go to Jet and the interest will go to Air Sahara. However, the escrow account formalities will be decided by an arbitration tribunal. Arbitration is to begin on 9 October 2006. |