Jazeera Airways acquires high stake in regional flights

Jazeera Airways has acquired substantial operational shares at regional destinations and posted punctuality as to travel dates by 91 percent in January. The company said in its monthly report that it took large stakes of operations, among the other aviation companies, to a chain of destinations, namely Alexandria, Luxor, Aleppo, Asiut, Sohaj, Deir Al-Zor and Damascus. Proportion of its operations to Alexandria amounted to 36 percent, compared to 45 percent on the Kuwait-Asiut route, 70 percent to Luxor, 35 percent to Sohaj, 23 percent to Sharm El-Sheikh and 25 percent to Cairo. Its share of flights to Damascus amounted to 41 percent, compared to 72 percent to Aleppo and 82 percent to Deir Al-Zor. As to its flights' stake to Amman, it reached 32 percent, as well as 32 percent to Beirut, 10 percent to Bahrain and 16 percent to Dubai. Jazeera, a company established in 2005, is listed in the Kuwait Stock Exchange.