India’s Jet Airways is to launch daily direct
flights to Colombo from Mumbai and Delhi, effective 5 November
2010.
Flight 9W 256 will depart Mumbai daily at 02:10
reaching Colombo at 04:45. On the return sector, flight 9W 255
will depart Colombo at 20:20 and reach Mumbai at 22:55.
On the Delhi-Colombo sector, flight 9W 257 will
depart Delhi at 13:30 and arrive Colombo at 17:05 and on the
return leg, 9W 258 will depart Colombo at 07:50 and reach Delhi at
11:30.
The introduction of the two new flights serving
Sri Lanka and India, are in addition to the existing daily Chennal
– Colombo service, with which the airline launched its
international operations in 2004.
With this enhanced
connectivity, commencing with the winter schedule Colombo will now
be connected to Jet Airways’ two strategic hubs - Delhi and
Mumbai. The airline will thus be able to offer its guests seamless
connectivity through Mumbai and New Delhi onto several
destinations across North America, Europe, as well as destinations
across the Gulf, Middle East and Far East on the Jet Airways
network.
Mr. Nikos Kardassis, CEO, Jet
Airways, said, “Jet Airways is delighted to provide direct links from
the financial and the national capital to the Emerald Isle. Sri
Lanka is fast emerging as a highly rated global tourism
destination and we are happy to offer our guests seamless
connections to several destinations across our network, through
our important gateways points - Mumbai and Delhi, and at the same
time strengthen air connectivity to destinations within the SAARC
region.”
The airline will deploy a state-of-the-art
Boeing 737-800 aircraft on the routes, offering 8 Premiere and 162
economy class seats.
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