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Jet Airways to facilitate search for the lowest fares via SMS
India's Jet Airways has launched a new mobile SMS service that will give travellers an option to check the lowest current fares on the airline network from their mobiles on any given day of travel.
Published: 12 Nov 2009
India's Jet Airways has launched a new mobile SMS service that will give travellers an option to check the lowest current fares on the airline network from their mobiles on any given day of travel.
Users can send an SMS to get the lowest real-time fares available on jetairways.com on a particular sector and date.
The new initiative is the latest addition to Jet’s existing offering such as real-time flight updates and prior check-in through SMS.
Sudheer Raghavan, chief commercial officer, Jet Airways, said this initiative, the first of its kind in the domestic civil aviation industry, “is designed to seamlessly offer guests information on the lowest possible fares at that moment”.
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