Jet Airways Voted One Of The World`s Top 10 Airlines In `Best In Travel Poll 2008`
Released on: September 8, 2008, 10:14 pm
Press Release Author: Parinaz Driver
Industry: Transportation & Logistics
Press Release Summary: September 05, 2008: Jet Airways emergence as one of the worlds premium airlines has been recognised by the Best in Travel Poll 2008, organised by SmartTravelAsia.com.
Press Release Body: Voted one of the Top 10 Airlines in the world, Jet Airways was seventh in a poll of the worlds best airlines, while being placed fifth in the Business Class Category for its acclaimed, herringbone-configured Premire product; and sixth in the Cabin services category.
Mr. Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, Chief Executive Officer, Jet Airways said the poll is indeed a worthy recognition of Jet Airways high-quality products and services. Remarkably, this was all achieved in a short span of three years since we launched international services across the globe. It is a testimony to all who have helped the airlines fast climb in the world rankings and punch above our weight. This will encourage everyone in Jet Airways to further build upon our success and offer all our passengers more memorable flying experiences.
The Best in Travel Poll 2008 recognises the best in the industry and acknowledges their excellent services and products to the tourism and airline industry. The results of the poll were voted by the international readers of SmartTravelAsia.com, a regional online travel magazine, through May to July 2008. The voters, with about 60 per cent in Asia, 20 per cent in Europe and UK and 20 per cent in USA and North America, took 15.5 annual air trips on average.
These honors are the latest in a series of accolades for Jet Airways. In June 2008, Jet Airways received awards for being one of the Top 5 Airlines by Growth in Passenger Carriage and one of Top 5 Airlines by Growth in Cargo Carriage at the annual Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) awards.
In the same month, the airline was recognized for the excellence of its service and in-flight experience in the Airline of the Year Category at the second Annual Which? Awards presentation ceremony in London, placing a mere percentage point behind the eventual winner.
In April 2008, the airlines frequent flyer programme, JetPrivilege, won 9 Awards, including the intensely competitive Program of the Year award for the second consecutive year, at the 20th Annual presentation ceremony of the prestigious Freddie Awards 2007 in Phoenix, USA. This was the fourth year in a row that JetPrivilege was honoured at the awards.
Jet Airways was also declared the Best Cargo Airline of Central Asia. at the prestigious Cargo Airline of the Year Awards earlier in the month, held in London.
Founded in 1993, Jet Airways commenced its first international operations in 2004, and is today one of the fastest growing airlines in the world with flights to 64 destinations that span the length and breadth of India and beyond to North America, Europe (via the Brussels hub), Asia and the Gulf region.
Jet Airways Public Relations New Delhi & Mumbai,India September 2008 Jet Airways (I) Ltd
Ragini Chopra Vice President Corporate Communications & PR New Delhi,India Tel: +91-11-4164 5080 Fax: +91-11-4609 5084 raginic@jetairways.com
A.K. Sivanandan Sr. General Manager PR New Delhi,India Tel: +91-11-2652 3357 Fax: +91-11-2652 3348 asivanandan@jetairways.com
Srirupa Sen Manager PR Mumbai,India Tel: +91-22-2852 3648 Fax: +91-22-2920 4437 ssen@jetairways.com
Web Site: http://www.jetairways.com
Contact Details: Jet Airways (India) Ltd. S.M. Centre, Andheri-Kurla Road, Andheri (East), Mumbai - 400059 India Phone: +91 22 4019 1000 Fax: +91 22 2920 1313 pdriver@jetairways.com
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