Report Summary:
- #1 Airline between Kuwait and Alexandria, Amman, Sharm El Sheikh, Assiut, Sohag, and Luxor
- #1 Kuwaiti airline between Kuwait and Beirut, Dubai, Bahrain
Freedom Town, Kuwait, July 16, 2012: 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%.
Report highlights: Jazeera Airways market shares for Q2 2012
| Route | Jazeera Airways market share | Market share of remaining airlines – combined | Number of airlines serving route |
| Al Najaf route | 100% | - | 1 |
| Alexandria route (ALY + HBE) | 31.11% | 68.89% | 6 (to be verified) |
| Amman route | 38.07% | 61.93% | 3 |
| Assiut route | 49.52% | 50.48% | 3 |
| Bahrain route | 12.95% | 87.05% | 5 |
| Beirut route | 32.31% | 67.69% | 3 |
| Cairo route | 26.74% | 73.26% | 3 |
| Damascus route | 49.44% | 50.56% | 2 |
| Deir Ezzor route | 100% | - | 1 |
| Dubai route | 16.01% | 83.99% | 5 |
| Istanbul route | 7.83% | 92.71% | 3 |
| Jeddah route | 13.27% | 86.73% | 4 |
| Luxor route | 71.28% | 28.72% | 2 |
| Mashhad route | 21.16% | 78.84% | 5 |
| Riyadh route | 12.81% | 87.19% | 3 |
| Sharm El Sheikh route | 59.78% | 40.22% | 2 |
| Sohag route | 37.76% | 62.24% | 4 |
Source: Kuwait Directorate General for Civil Aviation, April, May and June 2012
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