On the 20th April 2007, Jet Airways bought Air Sahara (an Indian airline) for Rs 1,450 crore (approximately US$300 million); and renamed it Jetlite Airline (they couldn't use the name "Air Sahara", as the purchase agreement stipulated that the "Air Sahara" brandname would continue to belong to the Sahara Group).
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1800 22 3020 / 30302020 |
phone (outside India) |
91 22 30302020 |
Jet Airways have announced that they will launch Jetlite Airline as a cross between a full service airline and a low cost carrier (whatever that means!).
Indian destinations |
Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, Dibrugarh, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, New Delhi, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Ranchi, Srinagar,Thiruvananthapuram, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam. |
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International destinations |
Colombo, Karachi, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Maldives, Singapore. |
Jet Lite (India) Limited is a 100% subsidiary of Jet Airways India Limited. Jet Airways first contemplated merging the airlines but subsequently decided to run Jetlite as an indendent subsidiary.
The chairman of Jet Airways, Mr Naresh Goyal, and Mr Harish Salve, the company's counsel, addressing a press conference in Mumbai.
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CRJ – 200 |
Sahara Airlines, Jetlite's predecessor, flew its first commercial flights on 3 December 1993 (2 Boeing 737-200s). On the 2nd October 2000 Sahara Airlines' name was changed to "Air Sahara". On the 20th April 2007 Jet Airways purchased Air Sahara.
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