OREANDA-NEWS.   Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, today launched its inaugural direct flight from Mumbai to Paris. The services to Paris Charles de Gaulle, France, will be operated using a state-of-the-art Airbus A330 flight four days a week on Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays. The flight will become a daily operation with effect from June 26, 2014.

Just ahead of the take off of its inaugural flight from Mumbai’s new Terminal T2, Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport, the airline conducted a multi-faith pooja and lit a ceremonial lamp to mark the occasion of its inaugural flight to Paris. The lamp lighting ceremony was led by Chief Guest Mr. Jean-Raphael Peytregnet, Consul General for France in Mumbai and other dignitaries and senior management from Jet Airways.

Jet Airways flight 9W 124 duly took off from Terminal T2 at the Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport in Mumbai at 1200 hours with a full complement of Premiere and Economy Class guests and will arrive at Paris Charles De Gaulle airport on at 1750 hours (local time).

The airline also announced that it had expanded its code share partnership with Air France, a major player in the European airline industry, thus offering guests access to unmatched network connectivity between Europe and India via Paris. As per the new expanded code share, both carriers will place their marketing codes on each other’s flights on the Mumbai – Paris trunk route. This will leave guests with a choice of a dual frequency as an additional schedule option, offering convenient timings by providing a morning and evening departure and arrival at both the destinations. This code share is already open for sale for travel effective 25th May 2014.