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India’s Jet Airways has launched daily non-stop
flights between Mumbai and Johannesburg, using state-of-the-art
Airbus 330-200 aircraft on the new route. Flight 9W 242 departs
Mumbai at 01:45 and arrives in Johannesburg at 07:15. On the
return leg, flight 9W 241 departs Johannesburg at 11:00 arriving
in Mumbai at 23:35.
The airline will provide convenient and
immediate onwards connections, via Johannesburg, to African cities
like Harare, Victoria Falls, Windhoek, Livingstone, Mauritius,
Lilongwe, Blantyre, Bulawayo, Gaborone, Maputo, Kinshasa, Lagos,
Luanda and Lusaka.
According to Mr.
Nikos Kardassis, CEO, Jet Airways, “Jet Airways is delighted to
enter Africa with its daily Mumbai-Johannesburg service. South
Africa’s reputation as a leading tourist and business destination,
and the fact that it will play host to the 2010 FIFA World Cup
also presents a huge opportunity for Jet Airways. With the
airline's world-class in-flight product, acclaimed service and
unparalleled domestic network, we are confident of growing the
South African, as indeed the African market, and emerging as among
the leading carriers to the region from India.”
Johannesburg is the
twenty-third destination in the airline’s international network.
Jet Airways currently flies to New York (both JFK and Newark),
Toronto, Brussels, London (Heathrow), Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala
Lumpur, Colombo, Bangkok, Kathmandu, Dhaka, Kuwait, Bahrain,
Muscat, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah, Sharjah, Dammam and
Riyadh.
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