India is an ever popular tourist destination and its people’s hospitality and cordial nature has always attracted the attention of the tourists from all across the globe. The vast territory of India is well connected by means of a huge number of domestic as well as international flights which operate to and from India. So India is well connected to the rest of the world by means of its highly developed air way. There are a number of domestic flights which operates in India.

One such airline company which runs a number of domestic flights to the different destinations of India would be Jet Airways. This airline is based in Mumbai. Jet Airways operates more than 330 flights to 50 different destinations across the territory of India on a daily basis. Jet Airways operates international flights to 6 overseas destinations. The main base of Jet Airways is Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai. The hubs of Jet Airways would include the Indira Gandhi International Airport at Delhi, Bangalore International Airport, Chennai International Airport, and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata. The Jet Airways was included as an “air taxi” operator on the 1st of April, 1992. Commercial airlines operations were started by Jet Airways in the year of 1993 on the 5th of May. The first flight by Jet Airways which took off was a Boeing 737-300 aircraft. The status of scheduled airline was granted to Jet Airways in the year of 2006 in the month of January. International operations by Jet Airways started with a flight to Sri Lanka in March 2004. Jet Airways was set up by Naresh Goyal. 80% of the share of Jet Airways is owned by the founder Naresh Goyal and the remaining 20% share of Jet Airways is owned by the public as they fall in the public share category. Jet Airways, along with Air Sahara are the only two privately owned airlines which were able to survive the tough competition in the aviation sector of India in the year of 1990. Jet Airways has commercial agreements with the following airlines

• Air France
• Austrian
• British Airways
• Brussels Airlines
• Gulf air
• KLM
• Lufthansa
• Northwest Airlines
• Qantas
• South African Airways
• Swiss International Airlines
• Thai Airways International