Jazeera Airways says that it plans to equip its entire fleet with technology that enables travelers to use their mobile phones during flights in 2009. The airline carried 600,000 passengers in 2006, and 1.2 million in 2007. The company did not detail which platform it would use to offer the service.
Chairman and CEO Marwan Boodai said, "We are excited to be one of the first airlines in the world to install the technology that allows travelers to use their mobile phones during flight. The new service will be available to all passengers for a fee, and will empower passengers to continue communicating with their families or their office while on board."
Jazeera Airways launched commercial operations on October 30 2005, with two brand new Airbus A320s operating to five destinations. Since then it has grown its fleet to six Airbus A320s and has added 25 non-stop routes, operated from a primary hub in Kuwait and a secondary hub in Dubai. Last June at the Paris Air show, Jazeera Airways increased its confirmed order for Airbus A320s from 10 aircraft to 40 aircraft. Jazeera Airways began taking deliveries last month and will continue to until 2014, when the last ordered aircraft will be delivered.
Jazeera Airways is the only airline in the Middle East that is neither owned nor subsidized by any government.
Posted to the site on 14th January 2008
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