Jazeera Airways issues Q2 operational performance report

Award-winning Jazeera Airways today issued its Q2 2012 operational performance, which showed that the airline has continued to grab leading market shares to the destinations it serves. 

The today-issued report had placed Jazeera Airways as the leading airline between Kuwait and Amman, and between Kuwait and the following five Egyptian cities: Alexandria, Sharm El Sheikh, Assiut, Sohag and Luxor.   

The report is based on official figures from Kuwait’s Directorate General for Civil Aviation DGCA. 

The airline captured a 38% market share on the Kuwait-Amman, a 31% market share on the Kuwait-Alexandria route, a 60% market share on the Kuwait-Sharm El Sheikh route, a 50% market share on the Kuwait-Assiut route, 38% market share on the Kuwait-Sohag route, and a 71% market share on the Kuwait-Luxor route. 

The airline’s market share also increased on the Kuwait-Cairo route during Q2 to 27%, with a 28% market share during the month of May alone, an 8% increase from April 2012 and an all-time high since it launched the route in May 2011. 

The report also showed that Jazeera Airways was the leading Kuwaiti airline between Kuwait and Beirut capturing 32%, Kuwait and Bahrain capturing 13%, and Kuwait and Dubai capturing 16%. 

Jazeera Airways also reported this week that it ranked the highest in on-time performance OTP in the Middle East in the second quarter of 2012, as measured by FlightStats, the US-based global OTP tracker. The airline’s OTP for the second quarter was 94.21%.