Effective June 14, 2009, Jet Airways, India’s premier international airline, will launch services to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the introduction of daily, direct services from Mumbai to the Saudi Arabian administrative and commercial capital cities of Riyadh and Jeddah respectively. These cities will be Jet Airways' seventh and eighth destinations respectively in the airline's growing Gulf network.

The airline will operate the new flights aboard a state-of-the-art Boeing 737-800 aircraft.

- Flight 9W 524 will depart Mumbai at 1930 hrs, arriving in Riyadh at 2105 hrs.
9W 523 will then depart Riyadh at 2205 hrs, arriving in Mumbai at 0430 hrs.
- Flight 9W 522 will depart Mumbai at 1900 hrs, arriving in Jeddah at 2130 hrs.
9W 521 will then depart Jeddah at 2230 hrs, arriving in Mumbai at 0610 hrs.

According to Mr. Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, CEO, Jet Airways, “Jet Airways is delighted to introduce daily services to the kingdom of Saudi Arabia from Mumbai. The introduction of these new flights will serve to further strengthen our Gulf network, better enabling us to offer passengers seamless connectivity and a world-class product on the Indo-Gulf sector.”

Jet Airways currently flies daily to Kuwait, Bahrain, Muscat, Doha, Dubai and Abu Dhabi from several Indian cities.