Jet Airways granted traffic rights to Gulf/Middle east routes

New Delhi: The Ministry of Civil Aviation has given its approval to the grant of traffic rights to Jet Airways on the India-Gulf/Middle East routes w.e.f. 1st January 2008. This was conveyed by the Ministry to the Directorate General of Civil Aviation yesterday.
The traffic rights that have been granted to Jet Airways are:
>>3682 seats to Kuwait per week of which 1582 seats are in the Delhi-Kuwait route, 1050 seats in Trivandrum-Kuwait route and 1050 seats in Kochi-Kuwait route.
>>3150 seats to Oman of which 1050 seat are in the Kochi-Muscat route, 1050 seats in the Trivandrum-Muscat route, and 1050 in Calicut-Muscat route
>> 2100 seats to Qatar of which 1050 are in Mumbai-Doha route and 1050 in the Calicut- Doha route.
>>2100 seats to Bahrain of which 1050 are in the Mumbai-Bahrain and 1050 in Kochi-Bahrain route.
The Jet Airways had applied for traffic rights on the India-Gulf/Middle East routes on 18th July 2007. They had asked for rights on routes to Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. Their request for grant of traffic rights on India-Dubai and India -Abu Dhabi routes is under the consideration of the Government.
The total entitlement for Indian carriers on the Gulf routes at present is 85481 seats per week of which 21950 are for Dubai, 7420 for Abu Dhabi, 10206 for Sharjah, 8000 for Kuwait, 10892 for Qatar, 7546 for Oman, 10967 for Bahrain and 8500 for Saudi Arabia.
It may be noted that as per the decision of the Government Scheduled Indian Private Airlines are not permitted to operate international flights to/from Gulf till the end of 2007. The Gulf routes are served only for the Indian Public Carriers till then.
14/09/07 Press Information Bureau (press release)

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