Jet Airways Celebrates Women’s Day with Promotion

 India’s Jet Airways has launched Special Fares for all women passengers to celebrate International Women’s Day.

 These Jet Airways’ Special Fares will be available till the end of March 2010 to every group with at least one woman traveler that makes bookings on the airline’s website. All such groups will enjoy a 10% discount on base domestic fares and a 5% discount on base international fares (excluding applicable taxes and surcharges), for First Class, Premiere or Economy travel on all routes operated by Jet Airways or Jet Airways’ Konnect service.

The airline has also chosen to support five women specific NGO’s through a unique inflight fundraising collection drive to benefit women’s issues as part of its International Women’s Day celebrations. The airline has committed to a two-week long inflight collection drive, lasting through 21 March 2010. It will contribute the proceeds from this drive to benefit five NGOs namely - Nanhi Kali, Apne Aap Women Worldwide, Navjeet Community Centre, Mijwan Welfare Society and Rajiv Gandhi Mahila Vikas Pariyojana. All of these non-profit organizations are dedicated to empowering underprivileged women in India.

According to Mr. Nikos Kardassis, CEO, Jet Airways, “Jet Airways’ women travelers, besides being a prominent and growing customer demographic, have also been among the airline’s most loyal customers. As a token of appreciation for their support, we would like to offer them substantial savings on their travel through our Special Fares. We are also launching an In-flight Collection Drive on the occasion of International Women’s Day with a view to contributing to poverty alleviation and empowering women through these NGOs. We are confident that the two initiatives would prove extremely popular among all our guests.”

Additionally, all women JetPrivilege members who travel on Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect and/ or JetLite, both within India or overseas (with the exception of codeshare services), will earn an additional 500 bonus JP Miles till 15 March 2010.

Furthermore, women travelers who wish to join Jet Airways’ JetPrivilege programme and become part of the JetViva forum, will be awarded 500 JPMiles on enrolling for the same, online at jetairways.com, against a special reference code or at any airport flown to by Jet Airways/Jet Airways Konnect/ JetLite across India, till 31 March 2010.

Jet Airways' has also recently introduced JetViva which is an exclusive programme for women-on-the-move, through which members receive exclusive offers, customized events and promotions, every quarter.

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