Jet has (almost!) lost their touch
Aug 29, 2013, 8:58 am
#256
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And SQ also have a morning flight to BOM. Jet's DEL and MAA flights are also one morning and one evening, so I don't know what makes BOM so different?
Besides, SQ have a vast network that feeds into the evening flights from across Asia-Pac in addition to the O&D. I don't know what Jet are hoping to attract (that they haven't already). It's certainly not at the home end, where this will become yet another flight that doesn't connect with the domestic network.
Aug 29, 2013, 9:00 am
#257
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On the other hand, they've just added a second BOM-SIN flight on their favourite aircraft. They will soon be double daily from BOM, DEL and MAA.
Interesting (and somewhat baffling) timings:
dep bom 10h00 and 23h30
dep sin 19h00 and 20h00
The return flights from SIN are just an hour apart.
Interesting (and somewhat baffling) timings:
dep bom 10h00 and 23h30
dep sin 19h00 and 20h00
The return flights from SIN are just an hour apart.
no air india flight, even via chennai between 7th september to 6th november.
the flight timings are very similar to qantas's old timings. maybe they are feeding into qantas for australia in response to the air india direct flight.
Aug 29, 2013, 10:02 am
#258
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they are filling the void created by air india, indigo and kingfisher airlines. and rightly so.
no air india flight, even via chennai between 7th september to 6th november.
the flight timings are very similar to qantas's old timings. maybe they are feeding into qantas for australia in response to the air india direct flight.
no air india flight, even via chennai between 7th september to 6th november.
the flight timings are very similar to qantas's old timings. maybe they are feeding into qantas for australia in response to the air india direct flight.
The new BOM-SIN flight does connect very well with the QF departures, so that's good. They only thing I don't get about this is the need to have both SIN-BOM flights so close together. Especially when they've got a country of a billion people at the BOM end and no meaningful connections to offer (which would be possible were this flight timed the way the SIN-DEL and SIN-MAA flights are).
Aug 29, 2013, 10:11 am
#259
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probably there is demand for the qantas feed and o&d traffic is also there. but i believe the qf arrival was much later in the night before into bombay. or probably they are connecting onwards to their europe and abu dhabi flights.
Aug 31, 2013, 12:21 am
#260
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Fibga finally discovers it's 2013 and launches a mobile app.
Of course, as with everything Fibga, it's a delayed, half-baked rush job (yet supposedly well planned and thought out).
So the most important features (check-in and manage booking) are "coming soon" or say "go to jet.dumb" or "write to us".
Wow.
Oh Fibga.
Of course, as with everything Fibga, it's a delayed, half-baked rush job (yet supposedly well planned and thought out).
So the most important features (check-in and manage booking) are "coming soon" or say "go to jet.dumb" or "write to us".
Wow.
Oh Fibga.
Sep 2, 2013, 1:15 pm
#261
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Sep 6, 2013, 12:27 am
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another couple of gems that can only come from jet:
1. was looking to book a del-dxb-del business class redemption ticket for my wife....jet wanted 60k miles + inr 25k in taxes....an economy class ticket is for inr 18k & i only need 37k miles to upgrade....plus she will earn back about 3k miles....so its cheaper to book an economy ticket & upgrade than to book an award ticket....
2. the cancellation/refund fee for this ticket is inr 3k....but if you don't show up then the fee is inr 2.5k....why would anyone cancel in this situation????
1. was looking to book a del-dxb-del business class redemption ticket for my wife....jet wanted 60k miles + inr 25k in taxes....an economy class ticket is for inr 18k & i only need 37k miles to upgrade....plus she will earn back about 3k miles....so its cheaper to book an economy ticket & upgrade than to book an award ticket....
2. the cancellation/refund fee for this ticket is inr 3k....but if you don't show up then the fee is inr 2.5k....why would anyone cancel in this situation????
Sep 6, 2013, 4:10 am
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another couple of gems that can only come from jet:
1. was looking to book a del-dxb-del business class redemption ticket for my wife....jet wanted 60k miles + inr 25k in taxes....an economy class ticket is for inr 18k & i only need 37k miles to upgrade....plus she will earn back about 3k miles....so its cheaper to book an economy ticket & upgrade than to book an award ticket....
2. the cancellation/refund fee for this ticket is inr 3k....but if you don't show up then the fee is inr 2.5k....why would anyone cancel in this situation????
1. was looking to book a del-dxb-del business class redemption ticket for my wife....jet wanted 60k miles + inr 25k in taxes....an economy class ticket is for inr 18k & i only need 37k miles to upgrade....plus she will earn back about 3k miles....so its cheaper to book an economy ticket & upgrade than to book an award ticket....
2. the cancellation/refund fee for this ticket is inr 3k....but if you don't show up then the fee is inr 2.5k....why would anyone cancel in this situation????
Sep 6, 2013, 10:04 am
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After the no-show if you then go to get the refund, they might charge you 5.5k. i.e. 2.5k for the no show + 3k for the refund processing!
Sep 6, 2013, 1:30 pm
#267
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i've done this before with jet last year....the no show charge on my international flight was less than the cancellation charge....i found out last minute that i couldn't travel on that date so i simply didn't show up instead of cancelling....got my money back minus the no show penalty....
Dec 21, 2013, 12:23 am
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I know Jetchild is catchy.. But how about JetKidz ? I found this in a flyer on Jet and they've even trademarked it 
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Dec 21, 2013, 10:18 am
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