Jet Airways will officially terminate its services between New Delhi and Milan Malpensa from next month.
DELHI- Opened in December 2010, Jet Airways will officially terminate its services between New Delhi and Milan Malpensa from next month. Milan was served up to five times a week. The airline is curtailing its long-haul operations to cut down loss. Over the last few months the airline has pulled out of Johannesburg and New York (JFK) routes.
“In view of the ongoing global economic slowdown and in particular the current economic crisis in the eurozone countries, Jet Airways announced that it has decided to temporarily withdraw its Airbus A330 daily direct service between New Delhi and Milan from February 1, 2013. As part of the on-going network rationalisation programme of the airline, one of the fiscal controlling measures adopted by the management has been the withdrawal of loss making routes and redeployment of those assets and capacities on other routes and destinations, where profitability will be better,” the airline said in a statement.
Passengers flying between Europe and India might however chose to transit via Dubai as Jet Airways is boosting connections. The airline introduced on January 18 a second daily service between Delhi and Dubai. The frequency is served with a brand new Boeing 737-800 aircraft, offering twin class configuration of 16 Premiere and 138 Economy seating.The second Dubai-Delhi flight follows the launch in early January of four weekly services between Dubai and Mangalore in the State of Karnataka.
Jet did not disclose how it will redeploy the Airbus A330, which currently flies to Milan. The airline made a loss of Rs 1,000 million on a stand-alone basis in the second quarter, a weak season for travel.
Luc Citrinot a French national is a freelance journalist and consultant in tourism and air transport with over 20 years experience. Based in Paris and Bangkok, he works for various travel and air transport trade publications in Europe and Asia.
