Superlative Web-User Experience for Online Customers. Another First from Jet Airways - Ties Up with Global Leader Akamai

Jet Airways India's premier airline, forged ahead a partnership with Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leading global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online.

In a continued display of customer commitment, Jet Airways, will use Akamai’s global network to enhance user experience for its online customer base.

With this, the airline launched Akamai’s services to distribute content and accelerate applications of Jet Airways’ website www.jetairways.com.

Jet Airways will access Akamai’s platform and leverage its services and expertise in online travel to ensure a consistent user experience for Jet Airways’ customers across the globe using its website to interact with the airline.

Akamai services will ensure speedy access and enhanced performance of Jet Airways’ website, regardless of conditions on the Internet and irrespective of their locations. This is done by effectively delivering the airlines’ content from Akamai’s 21,000 servers located across 70 countries.

Akamai’s Dynamic Site Accelerator Solution will now enable Jet Airways to use technologies like "internet route" and "connection optimization" to speed up dynamic transactions and interactive content. Apart from this, it would allow the airline to strategically and cost-effectively deploy sites with a reduced lead time and assuring peak performance.

Jet Airways’ Vice President Marketing, Gaurang Shetty says "As we continue to expand our operations across the globe and increase direct sales through jetairways.com, we wanted our website which attracts over 5 million page views and 1.5 million visitors per month, to provide our customers with a world class Web presence. Our focus is to deliver a highly interactive, dynamically generated website displaying excellent speed, usability and security at all times. Using Akamai’s global platform, we are not worried anymore about sudden fluctuations in traffic or loads.

"Our website’s performance is critical to our existing and future business activity as we continue to grow with our international flights and utilizing Akamai’s global network of servers will provide capacity on demand to reach global consumers without the cost, timing and risk of expanding our infrastructure globally," he adds.

Narasimha Rao, Regional Sales Manager, Akamai Technologies India is extremely positive about this relationship. "Jet Airways is India’s leading airline and we are proud to have them as our customer. Our solutions for travel and hospitality industry provide a predictable, high-quality user experience that measurably improves conversion rates and builds loyalty with their best customers. By delivering significantly faster page and application download times, and backing Jet Airways’ website with service levels that guarantee 100% site uptime, we are confident that Jet Airways’ customers will return to their website time and again.”

“Jet Airways will also benefit greatly from utilizing Akamai’s rich expertise in online travel, which include resources that have implemented best practices of delivering web content and accelerating applications for top class airlines worldwide.” Mr. Rao said.

Akamai enables e-business initiatives and optimizes the Web presence for a number of other commercial airlines and travel companies.

About Jet Airways:

Jet Airways currently operates a fleet of 63 aircraft with 1 Boeing 777-300 ER, 48 classic and next generation Boeing 737-400/700/800/900 aircraft, 3 Airbus A340-300E aircraft, 3 Airbus A330-200 aircraft and 8 modern ATR 72-500 turboprop aircraft. With an average fleet age of 5.2 years, the airline has one of the youngest aircraft fleets in the world. Jet Airways operates over 340 daily flights to 50 destinations that span the length and breadth of India and beyond, including London Heathrow in U.K., Singapore, Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia, Colombo in Sri Lanka, Bangkok in Thailand and Kathmandu in Nepal. The airline plans to extend its international operations to North America, Europe, Africa and Asia in the coming years with the induction of wide-body aircraft into its fleet in 2007. Since inception in May 1993 until end-April 2007, Jet Airways has flown over 72 million passengers.

About Akamai:

Akamai® is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online. Thousands of organizations have formed trusted relationships with Akamai, improving their revenue and reducing costs by maximizing the performance of their online businesses. Leveraging the Akamai EdgePlatform, these organizations gain business advantage today, and have the foundation for the emerging Web solutions of tomorrow. Akamai is "The Trusted Choice for Online Business." For more information, visit www.akamai.com.