Jubba Airways

Dubai airport

(Managing Director)

(Managing Director)

Jubba Airways (Arabic الخطوط الجوية جوبا, DMG Ďĩyarada ee Jubba ) is the name of two sister airlines based in Mogadishu, Somalia and Nairobi, Kenya.

Since its inception in 1998, named after the river Juba or a fertile region in the south of the country Jubba Airways is considered the unofficial national airline of Somalia.

History

The older of the two companies, was founded in 1998 by Said Abdi Hashi Only Qailie and Dalel, two entrepreneurs Somali origin from Calgary with three other partners in Somalia. With about $ 800,000 starting capital of Somali investors, the young company rented an office in Sharjah, in close proximity to Dubai in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates. At this time, air travel was in the emirate still largely unregulated and the airport therefore a prime target for struggling airlines of the former Soviet Union or with headquarters in crisis regions.

Already in May 1998, just one month after its founding, launched a chartered Jubba Airlines Ilyushin Il -18 from Sharjah airport to Mogadishu. The first flight on this route since 1991, when with the beginning of the Somali civil war, the national airline of Somali Airlines had ceased flight operations. Since the Mogadishu airport was closed due to the war, the aircraft of this in the following period three times weekly route flown first landed on an airfield outside the city. Later was Baledogle, a former military base served about sixty miles off Mogadishu.

After the terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States eventually led Sharjah stricter regulation of air operations for its airport one, why Jubba Airways finally had to stop its flights from there to Mogadishu.

Abdullahi Warsame, the current Managing Director, arrived in 2003, the company and put two crucial changes through. Instead of concentrating on short-term charter for each flight he sat on longer-term leasing of aircraft. So he allowed to create more reliable flight schedules of the Company. Above all, he advocated to register the company in Kenya, thereby legitimizing internationally. Having had dissolved in Somalia during the civil war and the national aviation authority, it was virtually impossible for a company registration in Somalia to get an official permission to land abroad.

Around the year 2006 witnessed Somalia under the Islamic Courts Union, at least around the capital, a period of stability in the re-opened and the Mogadishu airport and especially the domestic flight operation of Jubba Airways allowed a temporarily strong growth.

In 2008, the sister company was founded with the same name in Nairobi, Kenya, which occurs since then primarily as cargo and charter companies, but has also taken on the aircraft leasing and international passenger flight operations for the Somali society in essential parts.

Destinations

Jubba Airways flies to several major cities of Somalia and connects them to destinations in neighboring countries to close the gap that has emerged since the discontinuation of the Somali Airlines in 1991. It also international flights for pilgrims are a mainstay. Latest week following destinations will be served:

Somalia:

• Adado
• Baidoa Baidoa Airport
• Boosaaso, Bender Qassim International Airport
• Galkayo, Abdullahi Yusuf International Airport
• Guriel
• Hargeisa, Hargeisa International Airport
• Kismayo, Kismayo Airport
• Mogadishu, Aden Adde International Airport

International:

• Djibouti, Djibouti -Ambouli International Airport
• Dubai, Dubai International Airport
• Kenya, Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
• Saudi Arabia, Jeddah, King Abdulaziz International Airport

Fleet

As of December 2013, the fleet of the Jubba Airways consists of four aircraft in Kenya.

• 2 Boeing 737-200
• 1 Boeing 737-300
• 1 Boeing 737-400

The Somali Jubba Airways has three planes:

• 2 Antonov An-24
• 1 Antonov An -30