JAZEERA Airways has captured a higher market share on leading summer destinations in 2011 compared to its record performance of summer 2010. The results were part of the airline’s operational performance report for the 2011 summer season, which covered the months of June, July and August. The report shows that the airline had grown its market share on the Beirut, Luxor, Sharm El Sheikh, Jeddah and Damascus routes despite the political unrest in Syria.
Other highlights include, Lebanon at 34 per cent, up by 10 per cent from summer 2010, Damascus market share was 49 per cent, up by 20 per cent from last year, Luxor at 82 per cent, up by 24 per cent, Sharm El Sheikh at 68 per cent, up by 17 per cent and Jeddah at 17 per cent, up by two per cent.
The airline’s newly launched Cairo route reported a 30 per cent market share in the first three months of operations.
Jazeera Airways VP for revenue management and network planning, Martin Aeberli, said “We are glad to report higher market share on key summer routes. Even more so, we are especially excited about getting almost one third of the Cairo-Kuwait market with just 10 weeks of operation. For that we have no one else to thank but our travellers for continuing to make Jazeera Airways part of their travel plans.”
The airline also reported an on-time performance of 90.2 per cent and carried over 344,000 travellers during the summer season, bringing the total number of flown passengers for the year until August 31 to over 780,000 people.