BANGALORE, INDIA: Jet Airways today forged ahead a partnership with Akamai Technologies, a global service provider for accelerating content and business processes online.

Jet Airways, will use Akamai’s global network to enhance user experience for its online customer base, the company said in a release.

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 said, “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. Using Akamai’s global platform, we are not worried anymore about sudden fluctuations in traffic or loads.

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