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Pvt airlines may get nod for Dubai route this week

Jet seeks 56 weekly services; Air Deccan 70

Ashwini Phadnis

New Delhi, April 21

The lucrative Dubai route could be opened for Jet Airways, its subsidiary JetLite and Air Deccan by the end of the week.

Official sources told Business Line that the request of these airlines to fly to Dubai will be taken up at the air services talks between the Government’s of Dubai and India scheduled to be held here later this week. At the moment, Air India is the only carrier which is allowed to fly to Dubai from India.

While Jet Airways has sought permission to operate 56 weekly services including a daily service from Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai by July this year, it has also sought permission to increase the frequency of the Mumbai flight to a double daily service from October next year. It also plans to start a daily flight from Thiruvananthapuram, Kochi and Bangalore from October next year.

The low cost airline, Air Deccan, which plans to operate 70 weekly flights to Dubai has sought permission to launch a twice-a-day flight from Mumbai from summer this year. In addition, the airline plans to operate a daily service from Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Kochi.

The airline also plans to launch a daily flight from Chennai Goa, Mangalore, Pune during the winter schedule 2008 which traditionally runs from October till the end of March the following year.

JetLite has sought permission to operate 28 weekly flights including a daily from Jaipur, Amritsar, Hyderabad and Nagpur.

At the moment, Jet Airways is the only Indian private sector airline that has received Government permission to operate flights to the East Asia and operates regular services to Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Doha, Kuwait and Muscat.

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