The airline will deploy Airbus 330-200 aircraft for the purpose.
Extending support to agitating Jet Airways pilots, eight major trade unions have asked the airline management to take back the two pilots it had sacked and recognise the National Aviators Guild, which is spearheading the stir.
Air travel may get a tad more expensive during the coming festive season with at least one major carrier thinking of raising fares, but the hike is expected to be only in single digit in percentage terms. "We are looking at raising the fares during the festive season. No concrete decision has been taken yet. But the increase will not be very high because of competition. It will not be in double-digit," Jet Airways CEO Wolfgang Prock-Schauer told reporters.
IndiGo, Jet, SpiceJet and GoAir demand level playing field in aviation policy, say government can't favour only two new airlines.
The disappointment of the year is government's failure in finalising the re-drafted aviation policy.
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