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Jet Airways offers new monsoon fares

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, JULY 22. Jet Airways today announced the launch of its 30-day "monsoon super apex fares'' on some metro routes with immediate effect. They will be valid till September 15.

It also announced special point-to-point fares, return excursion fares and promotional fares to Patna and Lucknow.

The new "monsoon super apex fares" are stated to be even lower than the "super apex fares" but are governed by the same terms and conditions. Passengers holding the super apex fare tickets may have these reissued to the monsoon super apex fares scheme to avail themselves of the additional benefits, provided the 30-day advance purchase requirement is fulfilled.

Travel deals

Jet Airways said that it would offer attractive travel deals that entail substantial savings over normal fares under its special monsoon point-to-point and return excursion fares in economy class valid from July 26 until October 15.

Available on 56 and 26 sectors respectively, these would involve combination of travel to non-metro sectors via metro sectors or vice versa.

As an inaugural offer on Jet Airways' Delhi-Patna-Delhi flights, slated to start operations on August 16, passengers buying a return economy class ticket at Rs. 11,110 for this sector will be allowed to take a companion free of charge.

On the Delhi-Lucknow-Delhi sectors, a special one-way economy class fare of Rs. 1,999 will be introduced from July 26, which will be valid till October 15. The existing normal economy class fare is Rs. 3,790.

Under the new scheme, an economy class ticket for Delhi-Mumbai will cost Rs. 2,500. For Delhi-Kolkata and Delhi-Hyderabad sectors, the fare will be Rs. 3,000 and for other sectors — Delhi-Bangalore, Delhi-Chennai, Kolkata-Mumbai, Kolkata-Bangalore and Kolkata-Chennai — Rs. 3,500.

Under the special monsoon economy class return excursion fares, Delhi-Chennai-Madurai and vice versa a return ticket will come for Rs. 22,100, Delhi-Chennai-Port Blair for Rs. 22,100, Chennai-Delhi-Lucknow and vice versa also for Rs. 22,100.

`IA fares comparable'

Indian Airlines said that its 30-day and 21-day apex fares were comparable to that of Jet Airways and the special monsoon point-to-point economy class fare was comparable to IA's metro-non-metro concept. For example, it said, that on the Chennai-Kolkata-Guwahati sector the Jet Airways point-to-point economy class fare was Rs. 10,900 which was comparable to IA's normal metro-non-metro fare of Rs. 10,475 and D-7 apex metro-non-metro economy class fare of Rs. 6,955.

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