The airline will utilise new Airbus A320s, scheduled for delivery this year, to accommodate much of the increased frequencies.
Etihad is the fourth airline to operate the super jumbo aircraft to India.
'In the inspections, no issues were found with the said locking mechanism.'
The long-range planes will be delivered from early 2014.
The DGCA has asked airlines to inspect the fuel switch locking system in their Boeing 787 and 737 planes after a preliminary probe report into the Air India crash found that the switches were cut off before the accident.
The Boeing website lists the price of a Boeing 737-800 aircraft at $90.5 million.
Jet Airways, which is in the process of finalising a stake sale deal with Etihad Airways, plans to extend its code share agreement with the Abu Dhabi-based carrier to the Mumbai-Brussels-Newark route, sources said.
Jet and Etihad stand to benefit from cost savings and synergies in areas such as fleet acquisition, maintenance and training.
The resolution plan has to be put to work this month itself. Jet has a debt of over Rs 8,000 crore and needs to make repayments of up to Rs 1,700 crore by the end of March.
To sell five Boeing 777s, replacing these with cheaper aircraft
Etihad said it declined to lodge an EoI to reinvest in Jet Airways because of unresolved issues concerning the airline's liabilities.
The airline has already decided to lease out an A330 to Etihad and plans to lease out two more this year.
The Abu Dhabi-based airline is busy raising its brand recall, to catch up with Emirates.
The move will help Jet Airways strengthen its subsidiary JetLite's performance.
Total revenue dropped to Rs 5,406 crore in the first quarter of the current financial year from Rs 5,508 crore in the same period a year ago
Jet Airways remains the number one airline serving foreign routes.
Six of these aircraft are currently on lease to Etihad Airways, set to start returning to Jetair's fleet in June
Last October, the national carrier sold five planes of the same type to Etihad Airways for about $350 million.
"Tata Sons board is meeting tomorrow (Friday) to consider the proposal to bid for Jet Airways," people in the know of the development told PTI.
A resurgent SpiceJet is spreading its wings and Vistara is set to challenge Jet on long-haul routes in the coming years.
In the past, Qatar Airways has repeatedly expressed a desire to invest in IndiGo, the country's largest domestic airline.
But the Abu Dhabi-based airline would first bolster its own network with traffic from India before Jet's turnaround.
Fifteen of these pilots are expatriates who were hired for flying the Boeing 787 Dreamliners till Air India's crew got trained.
Emirates has been voted as the world's best airline in 2016 by travellers around the world.
Air India is keen to raise working capital by selling aircraft.
A financial turnaround with the Etihad partnership and debt restructuring has not fully materialised.
Five decades ago, 87 plane crashes took away the lives of 1,597 people.
The Indian government allowed foreign airlines to buy up to 49 per cent stakes in Indian carriers in September 2012.
Airline now financially more stable but still in the doldrums as the operating environment remains tough.
Jet's advertising and that of most other airlines has been limited to new routes or promotional fares.
The airlines is in talks with Oman Air and Etihad.
Air India's decision to buy five Boeing 787-9 is illogical.
While media reports suggested that Tata-Singapore Airlines is looking at an all-stock merger of Jet, Tatas, in a statement said, discussions to take over Jet Airways have been preliminary and no proposal has been made
Jet Airways on Thursday said it would introduce more flights on both its domestic and international networks.
Sale of wide-body aircraft will not affect internatinal flights, says Jet
Kardassis, who quit the airline in 2013, will advise Goyal and senior management on cost-saving and productivity improvement
The Air India board has cleared a proposal for sending its pilots on deputation to its budget arm, Air India Express, which has been facing shortage of commanders for some time now.
Ninety years later, BA counts the country as its second-biggest overseas market after the US.
Jet Airways offers a huge packages toward arrears to pilots.
Jet Airways (India) Ltd has defaulted on lease rentals of its Boeing 737s, highlighting the financial difficulties faced by the airline.
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