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Saturday, November 28 - 2009

Jazeera Airways improves nine month performance

Kuwait and Dubai based Jazeera Airways announced that it registered a 50% increase in nine month (9M) revenues, and recorded KD1,481,070 in profits for the 9M ending on September 30th , an improvement of over 43% over 9M '07 (KD1,033,113).

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Jazeera Airways Chairman and CEO Marwan Boodai said:
"This is a remarkable achievement considering Fuel comprised 42% of costs (30% in 2007). We managed these results on the back of yield improvement of 11% and reducing our Cost per ASK by 20%. We have worked hard to bring our CASK excluding fuel down to US 3.5 cents by a robust cost management program. This has allowed us to turn around our 1H losses. We have now registered more than 3 million passengers and have also added an additional 2 Aircrafts recently. We expect robust performance in the fourth quarter where fuel has decreased by 50% and we enter into the busiest travel months in the year."


Jazeera Airways is listed on the Kuwait Stock Exchange and operates a fleet of eight Airbus A320s from hubs in Kuwait and Dubai to destinations across the Middle East, Europe, Iran, North Africa, and the Indian Subcontinent. The airline has just taken delivery of Aircraft 7 & 8 and has firm orders for 32 additional aircraft, to be delivered over the coming years with the last fleet installment scheduled for delivery in 2014.
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About Jazeera Airways:

Established in 2004 and beginning operations in October 2005, Jazeera Airways is the first private scheduled airline in the Middle East.

Today the airline operates a new fleet of eight Airbus A320s to 27 non-stop routes in the Middle East, North Africa, Iran, and India through two main hubs in Kuwait and Dubai.

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