For tired Indian business travellers flying economy, Jet throws you a bone

Jet Airways, a favorite with expensively-suited business travellers and Louis Vuitton luggage owners, will launch on Monday (April 26) a new Premium cabin on Jet Airways Konnect flights.

In the spirit of fancy names for extra frills, the new cabin is called Konnect Select and will be available on several domestic routes. This is something of an upgrade courtesy Jet Airways Konnect, Jet Airways' all-economy service targeted at the aspiring lot of business and leisure frequent fliers wanting more than well-worn economy class seats.

It simple language it means wider and more comfortable seats similar to Jet Airways' Business Class seats with a 40 inch seat pitch in a 2x2 seating configuration, welded into a front cabin separated from the rest by a divider -- on Jet Airways Konnect Boeing 737 flights. And, hurrah, complimentary hot meals on-board to save us from the indignity of India's awful junk food invention: ice cold chicken tikka rolls.

Priced reasonably attractively, Jet Airways Konnect Select also gets you lounge access at domestic airports, priority check-in at dedicated counters, as well as baggage allowances and priority tagging (your baggage is amongst the first to arrive on the conveyor belt), as well as priority stand-by at the airport. Not bad at all. That means you can be first to battle the traffic once you exit the terminal.

This kind of economy class ego-boost gets a thumbs up.

Effective April 26th, 2010, Konnect Select starts on these return domestic routes: Kolkata - Mumbai, Delhi - Chennai, Delhi - Bengaluru, Mumbai - Delhi, Delhi - Hyderabad, Delhi - Kolkata, Mumbai - Chandigarh, Chennai - Bengaluru, Benagaluru - Pune, Mumbai - Indore, Delhi - Chandigarh, Kolkata - Bengaluru, and more to come.

Visit Jet Airways here for more details. To book tickets on Konnect Select, call 1 800 22 55 22 (toll-free) or 3989 333 from most major cities.