Jazeera Airways takes delivery of third Airbus A320 as fleet builds

The new aircraft is the third of a 10 aircraft order from Airbus by the eight-month old airline.

The new aircraft completed its journey across Europe through the Levant and landed in Kuwait International Airport, its home-base, at 1500 hours and carrying on board senior Jazeera Airways executives.

Upon arrival, the aircraft was greeted by Jazeera Airways Chairman and CEO Marwan Boodai, who welcomed the new aircraft saying 'the Airbus A320 is the one of the most efficient aircraft in the world, and we are building a fleet of it to reinforce our efficient operations, which in turn will enable us to pass on our savings to our travelers in the form of low fares throughout the year.'

Boodai added 'like our first two aircraft, our third aircraft comes with brand new CFM 56B engines and169 leather seats'.

Jazeera Airways, the Middle East's first and only privately owned and non-subsidized airline, is the only airline in the Middle East fitted with leather seats.

'With the entry of our third aircraft into service on July 1st, we are increasing our flights to Dubai to two flights a day, in addition to adding two new destinations to our network: New Delhi and Mumbai.'

The airline that took its first flight on October 30th to Dubai, has 6 Airbus A320s on option in addition to the 10 confirmed orders.

Jazeera Airways currently flies to top destinations in the Middle East, North Africa and the Indian subcontinent. Destinations include Dubai, Beirut, Bahrain, Damascus, Amman, Aleppo, Alexandria, Luxor, New Delhi and Mumbai.