Jet to commence Mumbai-Brussels-Newark flight next year

Brussels, Nov 12 (UNI) Jet Airways, one of India's leading private airliners, will start a daily flight connecting Mumbai with Brussels and Newark from the summer of 2007.

The announcement was made yesterday by Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt while jointly inaugurating a Festival of India exhibition 'Tejas Eternal Energy' with visiting UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi.

He told a packed audience in BOZAR, ''I am proud to announce, in the presence of Mrs Sonia Gandhi and Naresh Goyal, Chairman of Jet Airways, that from the summer of next year on, a daily flight connecting Mumbai with Brussels and Newark will be operational.'' ''In the following weeks all necessary clearances will be granted,'' he added.

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