Jet Airways launches flights to San Francisco via Shanghai

Jet Airways has commenced its daily services from Mumbai to San Francisco via Shanghai, becoming the first Indian carrier to operate daily non-stop flights to Shanghai from Mumbai and onward to San Francisco.

Jet Airways has commenced its daily services from Mumbai to San Francisco via Shanghai, becoming the first Indian carrier to operate daily non-stop flights to Shanghai from Mumbai and onward to San Francisco.

With this launch, effective from Saturday, June 14, Jet Airways becomes the first private Indian airline to connect the financial heart of India, Mumbai, with “Everybodyโ€™s Favorite City,” San Francisco, with the famed Silicon Valley to its south โ€“ the heart of Americaโ€™s technology revolution, which has a large concentration of Indian IT professionals who have made an invaluable contribution towards Indo-American cooperation in high technology areas.

Jet Airwaysโ€™ new services will be connecting the economic and commercial hubs of Mumbai, Shanghai and San Francisco. With the growing importance of trade and commerce between India and China, and the strong presence of both the Chinese and Indian communities in the San Francisco area, Jet Airways will cater to large volumes of business and leisure travel between these cities. Jet Airwaysโ€™ flights to San Francisco via Shanghai will offer its passengers the advantage of reduced regular flying time, benefitting the business traveler.

Jet Airways will operate these transpacific flights with the airlineโ€™s brand new Boeing 777-300ER aircraft which will offer unprecedented levels of luxury, privacy and comfort in the air, including First Class suites with the world’s longest airline beds, private closets, dining tables for two, and 23″ flat-screens. Premiรจre (business) class seats offer what are considered the most comfortable Business Class seats in the sky that convert to 73″-long fully-flat beds. Leg-room in Economy is more generous than the norm and passengers in all three classes have access to the state-of-the-art Panasonic eX2 entertainment system, complete with 200+ movies, games and endless music choices.

Jet Airwaysโ€™ flight to San Francisco International Airport will also be the airline’s fourth daily departure from India to North America, following new launches of service from New York’s JFK and Newark airports, and Toronto Pearson International Airport, within the past year. San Francisco is a popular tourist and business destination and with the commencement of these new flights Jet Airways expects the route to prove one of its most popular sectors.

At the inaugural of these new flights, Mr. Saroj K. Datta, executive director for Jet Airways, said, โ€œWith the introduction of Jet Airwaysโ€™ new transpacific service to San Francisco via Shanghai, we continue our airline’s unprecedented expansion throughout North America. At Jet Airways, we are indeed proud to have launched four new long-haul routes in less than a year to North America. This takes forward our Chairman Naresh Goyalโ€™s vision that by 2010 the airline should be rated among the top five airlines in the world. Having changed the way people fly in India, we are now taking to the world our very own brand of service and style.”

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