Jet Airways is launching a new daily direct service from Riyadh to Mumbai on Dec. 14.
The airline is introducing the new service because of the progressively growing passenger loads on Saudi-India sector.
A. K. Saleem, country manager for Jet Airways in Saudi Arabia, said the new daily flight 9W525 would take off from Riyadh at 5 p.m. daily and arrive at Mumbai at 11.35 p.m. local time the same day.
On the return leg, the 9W526 will depart Mumbai for Riyadh at 2 p.m. Indian time and arrive at King Khaled International Airport (KKIA) at 4 p.m. local time daily.
He pointed out that the introduction of this new flight would increase the Jet's flight frequency to five operated daily from Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam cumulatively.
Saleem said the airline currently operates daily flight from Jeddah to India and two flights a week from Dammam to India.
With the introduction and expansion of its services in Saudi Arabia, Jet Airways now flies to a number of cities in the Gulf, including Riyadh, Jeddah, Dammam, Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi.
Jet Airways, Saleem said, is the first carrier with twice daily frequency to Riyadh providing seamless enhanced connectivity to India over Mumbai hub.
In fact, a passenger traveling by Jet Airways from Riyadh to Indian destinations can have connecting flights to about 76 different destinations across the globe such as Katmandu, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Dhaka, London and Toronto.
A third early morning service is also being introduced on Dec. 14 between Mumbai and Bangkok, said Saleem.
He said that Jet Airways was the first airline in Indian to fly the new generation, fuel-efficient Boeing 737-300 aircraft.
© Arab News 2011
