Jet Airways Enhances Its Edujetter Programme With Additional Benefits For Students Traveling Abroad

Aug. 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, has enhanced its popular Edujetter programme for 2010-2011, offering students who have secured admission in educational institutes abroad, attractive offers. These offers include, excess baggage allowance, calling cards, discounts on foreign exchange rates, bonus JPMiles for the airline's frequent flyer programme, medical insurance, courier vouchers & discounts on lug gages.

The new Edujetter programme is valid for all students traveling from India to the UK, Australia, Europe, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong, USA & Canada from now until March 31, 2011.

As part of the programme, students will enjoy numerous benefits including excess baggage allowances (between thirty and sixty-nine kgs. depending on the destination), as well as 1000 JPMiles on enrolment into the airline’s JetPrivilege frequent flyer programme that results in a free ticket after the first flight.*

In addition, students will also enjoy INR 1000 worth of free talk time from Clay Telecom with no activation, deactivation or delivery charges, three 35% discount Fed Ex overseas shipping vouchers, an ICICI travel card, discounted forex rates, ICICI Lombard Student Medical Insurance, and a 20% discount on Samsonite luggage and accessories.*

According to Mr. Sudheer Raghavan, Chief Commercial Officer, Jet Airways, “Jet Airways’ Edujetter initiative is extremely popular with students traveling abroad, and is specifically tailored to ensure that they have an enjoyable, hassle-free travel experience. India’s future lies in the hands of these bright young men and women, and the Edujetter initiative is our way of supporting them.”

For more information, students may log on to jetairways.com/edujetter, e-mail at edujetter@jetairways.com or call on 1800 225522 or 02239893333.

* Terms & Conditions Apply



About Jet Airways

Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 89 aircraft, which includes 10 Boeing 777-300 ER aircraft, 12 Airbus A330-200 aircraft, 53 next generation Boeing 737-700/800/900 aircraft and 14 modern ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft. With an average fleet age of 4.82 years, the airline has one of the youngest aircraft fleet in the world.

Flights to 66 destinations span the length and breadth of India and beyond, including New York (both JFK and Newark), Toronto, Brussels, London (Heathrow), Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo, Bangkok, Kathmandu, Dhaka, Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Jeddah, Sharjah, Dammam and Riyadh.

Jet Airways (including its all-economy, no-frills Jet Airways Konnect service) operates over 400 flights daily.

About Jet Airways Konnect

Jet Airways Konnect is Jet Airways’ all-economy service on key domestic routes, designed to meet the needs of the low-fare segment with value-for-money fares.

Jet Airways Konnect links Seven major metros- Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad and Kolkata - with several destinations across India, operating over 200 flights daily.

Konnect Select’ is a  premium economy product introduced on certain Jet Airways Konnect flights. This new front cabin class features wider and more comfortable seats, with a 40 inch seat pitch. The services include complementary in-flight reading material, a welcome drink, and complimentary hot meals on-board.

About Jetlite

JetLite is a wholly owned subsidiary of Jet Airways India Limited, and was acquired by Jet Airways in April 2007. Positioned as an all-economy, no-frills airline, JetLite operates a fleet of 23 aircraft, which includes 17 Boeing 737 series and 6 Canadian Regional Jets 200 Series. The airline flies to 25 domestic destinations and 2 international destinations (Kathmandu and Colombo), operating over 110 flights a day, on average.

Jet Airways, Jet Airways Konnect, its all-economy, no-frills service, and JetLite have a combined fleet strength of 112 aircraft and operate over 500 flights daily.