The Hindu Business Line : Jet Airways second Mumbai-London service on July 10

The air space between Mumbai and London is to get more crowded with Jet Airways set to launch its second daily non-stop flight on the Mumbai-London sector on July 10.

Official sources told Business Line that the flight would leave Mumbai at 1.25 a.m. and arrive in London Heathrow at 6.45 a.m. In the return direction, the flight will leave London at 9.30 a.m. and arrive in Mumbai at 11 p.m. The airline launched a daily flight between Mumbai and London in May last year and captured a fourth of the market share on the sector within three months of the new flight being launched.

The increase in flights between India and the UK has been made possible due to the air services bilateral that the two nations concluded in 2004. The bilateral allowed the designated airlines to increase the number of seats on offer from 42 weekly flights or about 16,800 seats a week during the winter schedule of 2005 to 22,400 seats a week in each direction during the winter schedule 2006. Globally, the winter schedule of airlines extends from October to March.

Jet Airways, which already operates a daily flight from Delhi to London, is also examining the possibility of launching a flight on the Amritsar-UK route.

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