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ROYAL JORDANIAN

Background of the company to Mumbai.Today, the operates five direct non-stop weekly flights between () Royal Jordanian was established on December 15, and India (New Delhi and Mumbai). In India, Royal 1963 as the national carrier of the Hashemite Jordanian procures ground handling support from Kingdom of Jordan and covers a network of and has entered into a special pro-rate 53 destinations across the globe.The airline carried agreement with Jet Airways, which allows it to around 1.8 million passengers and posted revenues offer concessional fares to its passenger travelling of US$ 550 Million and net profits of US$ 31 million to other domestic destinations in India apart from in 2005. Over the last two years, the airline has its direct locations. In addition to the support continuously expanded its network of routes provided by sales staff of Jet Airways under the through alliance agreements with other existing agreement, Royal Jordanian has a staff international like ,Air Cyprus, strength of 24 full time employees across three American West Airlines,,Thai Air, branch offices located at Delhi, Mumbai and ,Air Malaysia, Syrian Airlines and several Kolkata. In 2005, the airline carried around others. Royal Jordanian is a member of the Arab Air 70,879 passengers and has recorded a growth Carriers Organization. It has become the first of around 3-4 per cent in terms of the number Middle East airline to get an invitation to join the of passengers it carried. prestigious global - and will formally join the group in the first quarter of Future plans of Royal Jordanian 2007. It also has a subsidiary called “”, for India which is dedicated to charter business. Royal Jordanian owns a fleet of 19 aircraft, which include Over the last decade, India has emerged has a two freighters and the rest are Airbus320, high growth economy and hence, has witnessed Airbus343 and Airbus321.The airline is in the a tremendous increase in business and tourism process of procuring seven additional aircrafts, related international travel. Royal Jordanian is keen each having a capacity to carry 100 passengers to exploit the growth potential and plans to from the Brazilian company Embraer. extend its network to more destinations in India, particularly southern India cities like Chennai, Royal Jordanian in India Hyderabad, Cochin and Bangalore which have a large air-traffic potential from Jordan.The airline Royal Jordanian started operations in India in 1989, is expecting a delegation from Jordan to meet after the signing of the bilateral agreement signed Indian Authorities in December 2006 to revise between Jordan and India. It commenced the bilateral agreement in order to allow it to operations with two weekly flights to Delhi and increase its frequency and serve more locations Kolkata and in mid-90s added two weekly flights in the Indian market. It hopes that the authorities 19 Arab company in India_book.qxd 12/2/06 9:53 PM Page 20

will accept Jordan as a strategically important destination like other Middle Eastern countries, which have large volume of labour traffic from India and hence, provide similar freedom and rights as given to airlines from other Middle Eastern countries. Royal Jordanian is quite optimistic on its business operations in India and expects to register a strong and profitable growth over the coming years.

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