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Jet Airways launches Delhi-Toronto flight

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JET SET GO: Civil Aviation Minister Praful Patel (right), with Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal at a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. —

NEW DELHI: While announcing the launch of its Delhi-Brussels-Toronto flight, Jet Airways Chairman, Naresh Goyal, on Tuesday extended support to the newly merged public sector Air India, saying his airline was ready to work with Air India in every possible way.

“We are ready to work with Air India. There is no need to look for partners elsewhere. Be it maintenance, catering, ground handling, code share, flights schedules, Jet Airways is ready to work together with the new Air India which I genuinely believe holds a lot of promise and is doing remarkably well,” Mr. Goyal said while making a no-holds barred unilateral offer.

Making use of the platform where Civil Aviation Minister, Praful Patel, was also present, Mr. Goyal said better synergy in operations with Air India would ensure a bigger market share in international operations for both the carriers. He said that Air India-Jet synergy would offer more choices to the customers. His offer, made couple of months ago in New York during the launch of Boeing ‘Dreamliner’ aircraft, elicited a matter of fact response from the Minister who said Air India was free to take any decision which was in the best commercial interests of the airline and the government would supplement its efforts.

Mr. Goyal said Jet would be looking at Zurich, Milan, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Tel Aviv, Iran and Johannesburg, Shanghai and JFK in New York in the months to come.

To a question, Mr. Goyal said that rights issue of the airline of the size of about $400 million which was to have been launched in October would be delayed by some more months owing to the market conditions prevailing in the U.S. The Civil Aviation Minister said that Indian aviation had truly achieved impressive growth over the past three years despite problems of inadequate infrastructure. With new international airports coming up in Hyderabad and Bangalore and modernisation of Delhi and Mumbai airports, Mr. Patel said many of the problems would be over in the next year or so.

Mr. Patel said there were a number of international sectors where none of the Indian carriers were flying and urged the airlines to look at newer international destinations.

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