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Jet Airways and Tata Cellular to launch on-line flight information service

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DQW Bureau
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Jet Airways a private domestic airline and Tata Cellular Ltd, the cellular service provider in the state, has launched I-Flight, the online flight information service for cellular phone users. This partnership now brings Tata Cellular subscribers, the benefit of accessing Jet Airways' on-line flight information such as exact timings of arrivals, departures, flight schedules, alerts on flight schedules on their cellular phones.

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Pioneered by Jet airways as 'Jetmobile', this on-line information service is the first of its kind to be offered by any airline in India. This service is already available in Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta and Gujarat and has now been extended to Andhra Pradesh. Jet Mobile enables Jet Airways passengers, to easily access instant flight information such as arrivals, departures and schedules for over 200 daily flights across 37 destinations. Passengers holding roaming cell numbers within the Network of above mentioned five places can access this facility anywhere in the country.

This user-friendly service has been designed and being operated by WebOnMobile, a Wireless ASP service of iSolv Pvt Ltd, a Pune based Wireless Technology Provider.

The functioning of Jet Mobile service is very simple. For instance, to get details of the flight number 9W 461, by sending a message 9W 461 to Tata Cellular message center, the traveler gets his information on arrivals and departures. Jet Airways customers can not only set alerts on their mobile phones by sending an appropriate SMS message, but also set a pre-alerts for future flights in advance at

www.jetairways.com and will be able to receive alerts in case the flight timings are rescheduled by more than 30 minutes.

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S K Subramanian, COO, Tata Cellular Ltd said "We are happy to be associated with Jet Airways in this initiative, to render this value added service to our subscribers in AP. We consider this an important initiative since this is yet another first from Tata Cellular for its subscribers in the State and enables them to avail of the facilities offered by Jet Airways."

Gaurang Shetty, GM, Jet Airways said, "We consider this service invaluable and it will make our customers' travel process a hassle-free one. We are pleased to work with Tata Cellular and anticipate that this service will particularly benefit their subscribers who are also frequent travelers on Jet Airways."

According to Mahesh Deshmukh, Marketing Manager, iSolv Pvt Ltd, "We are extremely proud to partner Jet Airways and Tata Cellular, leaders in their respective field. The Jet Airways mobile service is one of the key offerings of our WebOnMobile Wireless ASP Platform, which provides personalized time and location critical services to all cellular phones in India."

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