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Leading private carrier Jet Airways will launch a new economy service, 'Jet Airways Konnect', from Friday on select sectors, the airline announced today. The company said in a regulatory statement that Jet Konnect would offer almost all services of the parent carrier and would help the airline cater to the needs of the consumers opting for low-fare services.

"The only difference will be that Jet Konnect travellers will have to buy their meals on-board," the company said. Both Jet Airways and its low-cost carrier JetLite now offer food to their travellers on-board. The ground and in-flight services of Jet Konnect will be handled by the airline employees, the statement said. Initially, it will operate with two 737 and six ATR aircraft in sectors like Chennai-Coimbatore, Chennai-Madurai, Chennai-Kochi, Mumbai-Ahmedabad, Mumbai-Bhopal, Mumbai-Udaipur, Bangalore-Pune and Bangalore-Mangalore.

"Consumer demands are changing rapidly in a dynamic global environment. We believe Jet Airways Konnect service will give us the flexibility and speed to deploy capacity to meet these changing trends," Jet Airways chief commercial officer Sudheer Raghavan said. The company late last month had slashed salaries of its senior employees as part of its cost-cutting measures to cope with the slowdown. Jet Airways' market share in the first quarter of 2009 stood at 25.3 percent, while Kingfisher Airlines was ahead of it with 27.2 percent. (IANS)

Jet Airways Konnect, no frill arm of the private carrier Jet Airways, will soon launch new daily flights from Mumbai and Delhi.

The airlines would launch its services from Mumbai to Rajkot and Bangalore from July 7 while on Delhi-Indore and Delhi-Bhopal route from July 11, an airlines spokesperson said.

It has inducted two additional 135-seater Boeing 737-700 aircrafts specially configured to offer popular all-economy no frills service for these sectors, the spokesperson said.

With the deployment of the two Boeing 737-700 aircrafts, the total number of planes offering Jet Airways Konnect services has increased upto 19 (nine Boeing737s and 10 ATRs), offering over 125 flights daily.