Jet Airways Voted One Of The World’s Top 10 Airlines In “Best In Travel Poll 2008”

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(Free-Press-Release.com) September 9, 2008 -- Voted one of the Top 10 Airlines in the world, Jet Airways was seventh in a poll of the world’s best airlines, while being placed fifth in the Business Class Category for its acclaimed, herringbone-configured Première 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 airline’s 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 airline’s 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.

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

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