Jet Airways to have daily flights to Brussels

Jet Airways, India's largest private airline, will make a stopover in Brussels for its flights between Mumbai and New York.

A spokesman for Jet Airways, confirming Belgian media reports, told INEP that the service is due to start in summer but he could not specify the exact date.

"It can be July, August or September," he said, requesting anonymity.

He noted that that the flights will operate every day, seven days a week. The service will provide the first direct air link between Belgium and India.

At present travellers to India from Belgium have to take connecting flights from other neighbouring airports of Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam or Munich. After this, Jet Airways also intends to start a connection between New Delhi and Toronto before the end of the year. This connection will also have a stop over in Brussels and operate every day.

The spokesman said Jet Airways is expected to take delivery of two types of long-haul aircrafts, Boeing 777 and Airbus 320, this year and will deploy the two aircrafts on the new routes.