New Delhi, July 14 (TIWN) Lured by the prospects of the Indian market, many of Jet Airways' partner airlines have decided to deploy their own capacity to the country.

Till recently, Jet carried significant international traffic in and out of India. In over 20 years of existence, it had formed strategic alliances with some of the world's leading airlines such as Delta.

It not only flew passengers to the Gulf countries but also to Europe and through codeshare agreements across the globe.

However, since its grounding, the airline's partners were left with little choice but to go ahead and seize the India opportunity.

"We had a very successful codeshare partnership with Jet Airways that we planned to grow including our own presence in Mumbai. When the unfortunate situation with Jet arose we decided it was important to continue our growth plans in India and give customers a greater choice of who to fly with to London," David Hodges, Country Manager, Virgin Atlantic India, told IANS.

"That's why we acted quickly to launch a new service starting on the 28th of October on our Dreamliner aircraft connecting Mumbai with London, and onwards to the US."