Sahara Airlines was rechristened as Air Sahara on October 2, 2000. It started its international operations on March 22, 2004, with its maiden flight from Chennai to Colombo.
Jetlite currently flies to 29 destinations including 5 international destinations with 134 daily direct flights and offers 16,500 seats per day. It flies to major Indian cities like Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Bangalore, Bhubaneswar, Chennai, Coimbatore, New Delhi, Dibrugarh, Goa, Gorakhpur, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jaipur, Kochi, Kolkata, Lucknow, Mumbai, Nagpur, Patna, Port Blair, Pune, Ranchi, Srinagar, Thiruvananthapuram, Varanasi and Visakhapatnam besides foreign destinations like Colombo, Karachi, Kathmandu, Kuala Lumpur, Maldives, Singapore. Jetlite currently has a fleet of 27 aircrafts that include Boeing 767, Boeing 737-800, Boeing 737-700, Boeing 737-400, Boeing 737-300 and CRJ -200. Jetlite also has chartered helicopter flights from metropolitan Delhi & Mumbai.
Main base of Jetlite (Air Sahara) is Indira Gandhi International Airport, New Delhi, with hubs at Begumpet Airport, Hyderabad; Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport, Mumbai; Chennai International Airport, Chennai; and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport, Kolkata.
In April 2007, Air Sahara was bought over by Jet Airways for 14.5 billion rupees ($340 million). The deal is expected to give Jet Airways a combined domestic market share of about 32%. Though there were long-drawn negotiations between Jet and Sahara airlines over the buy-out of Air Sahara lndia and the matter even reached the courts, finally a deal was sealed amicably. It was announced that Air Sahara will be renamed as Jetlite.
| Air Sahara | Registered Office | Corporate Office |
Sahara India Bhawan 1 Kapoorthala Complex, |
3rd FloorDr.Gopaldas Bhawan28, Barakamba Road, New Delhi - 110001 Tel (011) 23326851 - 53 Fax (011) 23755510 |
