Jet Airways to Launch Mumbai - Jeddah / Riyadh Flights

Effective June 14, 2009, India’s Jet Airways will launch services to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia with daily, direct services from Mumbai to the Saudi Arabian administrative and commercial capital cities of Riyadh and Jeddah respectively.

These cities will be Jet Airways' seventh and eighth destinations respectively in the airline's growing Gulf network.

The airline will operate the new flights aboard a state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

Flight 9W 524 will depart Mumbai at 19:30, arriving in Riyadh at 21:05. 9W 523 will then depart Riyadh at 22:05, arriving in Mumbai at 04:30.

Flight 9W 522 will depart Mumbai at 19:00, arriving in Jeddah at 2130 hrs. 9W 521 will then depart Jeddah at 22:30, arriving in Mumbai at 06:10.

Mr. Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, CEO, Jet Airways, said, “The introduction of these new flights will serve to further strengthen our Gulf network, better enabling us to offer passengers seamless connectivity and a world-class product on the Indo-Gulf sector.”

Jet Airways currently flies daily to Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi from several Indian cities.

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