OREANDA-NEWS. November 08, 2011. Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline and JetBlue Airways (NASDAQ: JBLU), New York’s Hometown Airline™, today announce the launch of a new interline agreement that will offer guests new travel options from India to JetBlue destinations in the USA, via New York’s John F Kennedy and Newark airports.

Jet Airways offers the convenience of daily non-stop services from its international gateways in Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai to its European Hub in Brussels, the international political centre and home to NATO and European Union headquarters. At Brussels airport, customers may transfer to non-stop Jet Airways flights bound for New York’s John F. Kennedy and Newark Airports. In India, Jet Airways also offers an unrivalled domestic network to 53 cities including Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Kolkata, Goa, Hyderabad, and Thiruvananthapuram.

JetBlue is the largest domestic airline at New York, offering more than 150 daily flights that feature all-leather seating, the most legroom in coach of any U.S. airline*, free in-flight entertainment at every seatback, and unlimited free snacks and drinks. It offers non-stop service from JFK to dozens of top destinations including Boston, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Washington, D.C and from Newark to Boston, Orlando and Ft. Lauderdale.

Through this partnership, customers will now be able to book a single combined ticket for JetBlue and Jet Airways-operated flights with one stop check-in and baggage transfer between the two airlines. Customers may purchase JetBlue-Jet Airways travel via travel agents, online, or through Jet Airways’ reservations call center.

According to Mr. Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways, “Jet Airways’ transatlantic services to New York -Newark and JFK- from Mumbai, Delhi and Chennai, via Brussels, have proved extremely popular with guests, consistently registering very high loads. This partnership will enable us to tap into JetBlue’s impressive network out of New York, thus offering guests an unmatched, seamless travel experience between India and several additional destinations in the USA.”

“We’re pleased to be joining forces with Jet Airways to provide JetBlue customers with more high-quality travel options,” said Scott Resnick, JetBlue’s Director of Airline Partnerships. “Whether they’re traveling to the historic city of Brussels or beyond to Jet’s impressive network in India, our new partner provides a top-notch travel experience that is a great complement to JetBlue’s award-recognized services.”

About Jet Airways

Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 97 aircraft, which includes 10 Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft, 12 Airbus A330-200 aircraft, 55 next generation Boeing 737-700/800/900 aircraft and 20 modern ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft. With an average fleet age of 5.64years, the airline has one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world. Flights to 75 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond, including Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Bangkok, Brussels, Colombo, Dammam, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, London(Heathrow), Milan, Muscat, New York (both JFK and Newark), Riyadh, Sharjah, Singapore and Toronto.