Naresh Goyal (56), the founder Chairman of Jet Airways, India’s premier domestic airline has over 37 years of experience in the Civil Aviation industry. He is the recipient of several national and international awards.
Mr. Goyal was elected to the Board of Governors of the International Air Transport Association (IATA), at its 60th Annual General Meeting held in Singapore in 2004. This is the first time that the Chairman of a private airline of India has been elected to IATA’s prestigious Board of Governors.
After graduating in Commerce in 1967, Mr. Naresh Goyal joined the travel business with the GSA for Lebanese International Airlines. From 1967 to 1974 he underwent extensive training in all facets of the travel business through his association with several foreign airlines. He also extensively travelled overseas on business during this period.
With the experience, expertise and technical know-how thereby acquired, in May 1974, Mr. Naresh Goyal founded Jetair (Private) Limited with the objective of providing Sales and Marketing representation to foreign airlines in India. He was involved in developing studies of traffic patterns, route structures, operational economics and flight scheduling, all of which has made him an authority in the world of aviation and travel.
In 1991, as part of the ongoing diversification programme of his business activities, Mr. Naresh Goyal took advantage of the opening of the Indian economy and the enunciation of the Open Skies Policy by the Government of India to set up Jet Airways for the operation of scheduled air services on domestic sectors in India. Jet Airways commenced commercial operations on May 05, 1993.
In 13 years, Jet Airways has emerged as India’s largest private domestic airline and has been acclaimed by frequent travellers as the most preferred carrier offering the highest quality of comfort, courtesy, standards of ground and inflight services and reliability of operations. Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 44 New and Next-Generation Boeing 737s, 3 Airbus 340-300E, 1 Airbus A330-200 aircraft and eight ATR72-500s turbo-prop aircraft. With over 320 daily flights, the Airlines network connects 48 destinations, of which five are international, i.e. London, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Colombo and Kathmandu.
Jet Airways has been voted India’s “Best Domestic Airline” by several organisations of world-class repute. The airline has also been conferred with several national and international awards instituted by leading organisations including the Market Development Award for 2001 of Air Transport World (ATW) of USA. Jet Airways has also won the ‘Service Excellence Award’ hosted by Global Managers at Mumbai. Mr. Goyal in his capacity as Chairman, Jet Airways has won the ‘Entrepreneur of the Year Award for Services’ from Ernst & Young and also ‘Distinguished Alumni Award-2000 for meritorious and distinguished performance as an Entrepreneur’ and also the ‘most respected company in travel and hospitality sector’. Other awards conferred on Mr. Goyal include the ‘Outstanding Asian-Indian’ award for leadership and contribution to the global community given by the Indian American Centre for Political Awareness, ‘Aerospace Laurels’ for outstanding contribution in the field of Commercial Air Transport twice, in April 2000 and February 2004. The airline has also been given the ‘Pride in Excellence’ award from Boeing Company for maintaining the highest Technical Despatch Reliability for the second year in succession in April 2004. In August 2003, the airline was awarded the ‘Superbrand’ status by the world’s leading authority on branding, the Superbrands Council.
In July, 2005, Business Week selected Chairman Naresh Goyal as one of the five leaders from India in their Asia Edition cover story “Stars of Asia - 25 Leaders at The Forefront of Change.”
Chairman, Naresh Goyal received the first BML Munjal Award for Excellence in Learning & Development in the Private Sector category from the Honourable Minister for Civil Aviation, Shri Praful Patel along with a citation at a special function at Hotel Maurya Sheraton, New Delhi on January 6, 2006.
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Welcome aboard Jet Airways, India’s most preferred airline. When you fly with us, you can be sure that you will receive the finest service from the time you book your ticket to the time you leave the airport.
Jet Airways operates over 320 flights daily to 44 destinations across the country and 5 intrnational destinations including London (Heathrow), Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Colombo and Kathmandu. The rapid expansion of our route network has earned us the prestigious Air Transport World Award 2001 for Market Development. Jet Airways has also won the prestigious H&FS award for the domestic airline for the year 2001. We also pride ourselves in having the youngest fleet of aircraft in India, consisting of the modern Airbus 340-300E, Airbus 330-200, Boeing 737-400/700/800/900 and the ATR 72-500.
We strive to provide service of the highest standard to our customers, both on ground and inflight. Jet Airways is proud that we are one of the few airlines in the world to receive the ISO 9001 certification for our inflight services.
We pride ourselves on having an unbeatable record of on-time flights and providing world-class frequent flyer benefits to our customers, through our alliances with British Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Gulf Air, Qantas, Thai Airways, Austrian and Swiss International.
We were the first airline in India to receive the World Travel Market Global Award, the world's premier global travel event in London. We have also won the H&FS Domestic Airline of the Year Award four times. And Citibank Diners Club has chosen us as India's best domestic airline for our excellence in service.
Today, we are India's most preferred airline for our consistent performance..
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