Jet to start M'bai-San Francisco service via China

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Kozhikode, January 19:: Private airlines Jet Airways will commence daily flights between Mumbai and San Francisco via China by March, Chairman Naresh Goyal, Chairman of the Airways said.

"Indian Civil Aviation officials are currently in China holding talks on finalising the schedule and it is likely to be cleared to start from the end of February or the beginning of March", he said.

Goyal was addressing reporters here to announce the commencement of Jet Airways daily direct flights from here to Muscat and Doha from January 23.

Noting that it would be for the first time that a foreign airline would be allowed to operate such services through China, he said that with this bilateral ties between India and China would be further strengthened.

The proposed arrangement also provided for picking up passengers from China en route to San Francisco, he said.

Flagging-off its daily services to New York in August last and thus becoming India's first private sector airline to operate scheduled Trans-Atlantic services, Jet Airways also planned to connect more international destinations in North America, Europe, Africa and Asia in the near future, Goyal said.