Royal Jordanian

[yazm1991]

Originally Posted by eastwest

RJ new headquarters

Cheers! Looks great.

[lealfonse]

Originally Posted by eastwest

RJ new headquarters

I love, its so beautiful, I didnt even know that the construction started already. By the way thanks for the pic.

[yazm1991]

Royal Jordanian and JorAMCo open new chapter of cooperation

Royal Jordanian, the oneworld carrier, and the Jordan Aircraft Maintenance Company Limited (JorAMCo) announced on Oct. 18 that they were opening a new chapter of collaboration in heavy and basic maintenance, carried out in JorAMCo hangars at Queen Alia International Airport.

After signing the agreement with JorAMCo CEO Bashir Abdel Hadi, RJ President/CEO Hussein Dabbas expressed RJ's satisfaction at enhancing the growing strategic partnership with the maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) service provider, of which RJ owns 20%, and the UAE's Abraj Capital owns 80%.

Dabbas also said that the agreement comes as a natural progression in the framework of special cooperation and business ties that bond the two companies. It stems from the long history and experience the two entities have been sharing, as JorAMCo was Royal Jordanian's Engineering and Maintenance Department prior to privatization in 2000.

He also highlighted RJ's confidence in JorAMCo's technical competence and qualified workforce, as the company enjoys international reputation in quality aircraft heavy and basic maintenance services.

Dabbas said that RJ, which operates a modern fleet of Airbus and Embraer aircraft and reaches 56 worldwide destinations, enjoys a reputable, clean record of flight safety in the world's aviation industry, an indicator of the efficient maintenance and overhaul services. He added that this partnership satisfies the main needs of Royal Jordanian, through JorAMCo's quality, safety and turnaround time (TAT).

Bashir Abdel Hadi said JorAMCo is delighted to have signed the agreement with the national carrier, which has long entrusted its basic maintenance requirements and component repair to JorAMCo under a historical and strategic relationship.

He added that JorAMCo is certified by the Jordanian Civil Aviation Regulatory Commission (JCARC) and by several regional and international aviation authorities, including USA Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

Abdel Hadi concluded that the Amman-based JorAMCo specializes in maintenance services on its 48,000-square-meter facilities and hangars at Queen Alia International Airport. Additionally, JorAMCo specializes in providing heavy maintenance support for a wide range of airframe types, including Airbus, Boeing and Embraer.

[yazm1991]

All-Jordanian female crew operates RJ flight

October 20, 2009 (Amman-Jordan): Royal Jordanian flight number 132 landed safely on October 18 at Queen Alia International Airport, back from Athens. The novelty: the plane was led by Captain Carol Rabadi and co-pilot Hadeel Khamash, an all-women cockpit and cabin crew, thus recording a first for Jordanian and aviation history.
Since the establishment of RJ, two other women were awarded the same rank and flew, but with men pilots.

RJ Head of Flight Operations Captain Haitham Misto decorated Carol Rabadi with the four-stripe captain badge at a special ceremony arranged by the airline. The all-female crew consisting of six women, and a large number of local and Arab media representatives attended the ceremony.
Captain Rabadi said her first flight as captain, together with co-pilot Khamash will be a landmark in her life and the airline's history where women play a major role. She praised the support and training RJ gives its women employees who work in all the departments, including the operational and engineering sectors.

Rabadi underlined that her success in this career, which requires skill, accuracy and great responsibility, is also due to her colleagues' permanent encouragement during her training. At the same time, during the training, which included aviation sciences, Rabadi said she benefited from RJ, which holds the highest safety standards and commitment to international rules and regulations.

Captain Misto said that Royal Jordanian, a oneworld airline member, represents an advanced and sophisticated sector of the society and is a leading national company where men and women work side by side to operate safe and comfortable flights and offer distinguished services.

[yazm1991]

Royal Jordanian chooses Altéa Amadeus to manage passenger services systems

Royal Jordanian announced on October 21, 2009, it selected Amadeus Altéa Customer Management and ecommerce new suite of single technology platform solutions to manage its passenger services systems, including reservations, inventory and departure control. The airline will start implementing the solution starting with October 2010.

RJ President/CEO Hussein Dabbas said the IT partnership agreement with Amadeus IT comes in line with Royal Jordanian’s drive toward modernization and growth in the air transportation services.

Altea, a shared platform among partner airlines and among the carriers in the oneworld alliance, will strengthen the integration of these airlines and enhance passenger services, starting with booking and ending with boarding flights, which will result in better revenues, a strategic priority of the airline.

According to Dabbas, Royal Jordanian’s strategy is to invest constantly in improving its fundamental resources — modernising the fleet, enhancing the capacity of the human resources and adopting the latest industry technology — to achieve its objective of maintaining the competitive level it enjoys today in the airline industry.

Dabbas also said that early this year, and in support of the travel and tourism sector, the airline renewed its partnership with Galileo of Travelport to provide its partner travel agency sector with an advanced technology to serve its customers.

RJ has also recently introduced a new group revenue management system to enhance its services to tour operator agencies.
Dabbas added that RJ was awarded two world-class awards in the Information Technology field in the last two years.

Amadeus vice president, Airline IT, Julia Sattel, said that “Royal Jordanian is undertaking an impressive modernization program and we are delighted they have chosen Altéa solutions. Our strong presence in the global market will allow us to work closely with the airline to help maximize sales share and, thereafter, its revenues. By facilitating the airline’s operations among the oneworld alliance, Altéa will play a key role in enabling Royal Jordanian to execute its strategy and become a key player in the region.

Sattel added that today more than 60 airlines have chosen the full Altéa suite, while nearly 140 use at least one component of the solution.

[yazm1991]

Originally Posted by yazm1991

All-Jordanian female crew operates RJ flight

Great to see.

[yazm1991]

New RJ advert I found in the paper.

[yazm1991]

RJ makes JD25.5m in net profits during the first nine months of the year

The Royal Jordanian Board of Directors chaired by Nasser Lozi approved in its October 28, 2009, session the financial results for the first nine months of 2009.

RJ achieved net profits of JD25.5m, against JD3.8m in net losses incurred during the same period of last year. The gross profit reached around JD40.7m, against the JD21.5m gross profits for the comparison period, marking an 89% increase.

The airline showed thus that it was capable of logging positive results despite the fact that operating revenues went down by 16%, from JD532m in the first nine months of 2008 to JD449m for the same period of 2009.

Lozi said that this drop in revenues stemmed from the challenges that the international air transport industry has been facing and the slump in passenger traffic due to the global economic crisis.

He also stressed the board of directors' confidence in the measures the airline management has been taking to leverage the outcome of the crisis. RJ, he added, has used a successful cost-control policy managed to cut the operational expenditures without affecting the level of air and ground services offered passengers. Moreover, the airline is in constant search of new means of boosting revenues.

The chairman of the board expressed optimism that RJ will end up this year with satisfying results.

RJ President/CEO Hussein Dabbas expressed appreciation for the board of directors' support for the airline endeavors to upgrade services, improve its situation and overcome the effects of the economic crisis.

He pointed out that the profits came as a result of the decrease in fuel expenses in the past nine months, by 50% of the fuel bill the airline paid during the comparison period in 2008. Additionally, the airline exerted continuous efforts to reduce the operational costs by 20% and the available seat kilometers (ASKs) by 4% during this period.

Dabbas said the drop in revenues is due to the 3% decrease in the number of passengers using RJ aircraft and the 32% drop in uplifted cargo.

He added that because of the competition witnessed in the region, the airline reduced ticket fares, leading to a 14% drop in passenger yield; the drop was from JD216 in the first nine months of 2008 to JD185 in the comparison period this year.

The RJ president said that the decline in passenger traffic led to a drop in the key performance indicators during the above-mentioned period, when the seat factor went down by 8% to reach 67 points this year, compared to the same period last year, which witnessed 73 points. The load factor also went down from 55 points to 49 points, marking an 11% drop. However, the number of departures rose by 5% and of flying hours by 4%, due to the modifications to available seat kilometers.

Dabbas stressed that RJ will spare no effort to control costs, increase revenues and open new markets to boost its presence regionally and internationally, making a reality of its vision of becoming the airline of choice connecting Jordan and the Levant with the world.

That, he said, will be achieved due to the distinguished features RJ enjoys: a young fleet of aircraft, modern technological systems, a network of direct routes to 56 international destinations and a broader network covered by the oneworld airline alliance that reaches to more than 700 points around the world.

[yazm1991]

Another picture of the New RJ headquarters...

[eastwest]

nice beads

[yazm1991]

Same place, Same time, Same plane, Same air alliance

Really random, but I thought it was a pretty cool coincidence.

[yazm1991]

A couple of pictures from a new RJ offices in the Abdali area

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Royal Jordanian to decide on possible 777 or A330 lease
26/10/09

Royal Jordanian Airlines is intending to decide within a couple of months whether to lease Boeing 777-200 or Airbus A330-200 aircraft as a replacement for its Airbus A310s.

It is considering acquiring three aircraft, on three- or four-year leases, to carry out a one-for-one replacement.

Royal Jordanian's new chief executive, Hussein Dabbas, detailed the plan to Air Transport Intelligence during the Arab Air Carriers Organization conference in Jeddah.

He says the airline has had to rethink its interim fleet strategy after the delays to the Boeing 787 programme, which have pushed back Royal Jordanian's deliveries to 2013.

Dabbas says the airline is "in discussions with Boeing and Airbus, and lessors" over a possible 777 or A330 lease, adding that the alternative is to retain the three passenger A310s for a longer period.

The carrier is already planning to refurbish the interiors on its A340 long-haul fleet from September-October 2010, having signed an agreement with Sicma.

Royal Jordanian is planning a route to Mosul next year, expanding further its services to Iraq, as well as the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia. Dabbas also identifies Johannesburg as a candidate destination for the airline.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...330-lease.html

[yazm1991]

Originally Posted by yazm1991

Royal Jordanian to decide on possible 777 or A330 lease
26/10/09

Royal Jordanian is planning a route to Mosul next year, expanding further its services to Iraq, as well as the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia. Dabbas also identifies Johannesburg as a candidate destination for the airline.

Two new routes and possibly Johannesburg, good work RJ

[yazm1991]

BREAKING NEWS

Royal Jordanian plans airline merger

Royal Jordanian’s new CEO has said that the airline will merge with another carrier within the next two years, in order to expand and grow its operations.

Speaking to arabiansupplychain.com, RJ CEO Hussein Dabbas, who succeeded Samer Majali in June, said that because of the impact of the economy on the aviation market, consolidation was the only way forward for the airline.

“We need to merge with another airline in order to grow, and we will explore this option next year.”

Dabbas did not rule out the possibility of Royal Jordanian merging with a European airline.

“We would like to find an airline that fits our ambitions. It is too early to say and we would need to see which airlines would be interested, but we would consider merging with a European carrier.

“In order to grow we need to create synergies, and share operational costs, such as fuel sharing and catering costs, etc.”

Although Dabbas was playing his cards close to his chest on the finer details of the merger plan, he did say that the airline would need to move fast on setting up a viable alliance with another carrier, as regional airlines were facing stiff competition from mergers that had occurred this year.

“Lufthansa is buying basically all of central Europe’s airlines and it will be a formidable competitor to all carriers in the Middle East.

“Consolidation is the future and we will use alliances as a means of facilitating travel.”

[yazm1991]

Not sure if this is good news. Many airliner mergers have failed horribily, and if an airline other than one in "oneworld" mergers with RJ, then RJ will be asked to leave "oneworld"

I guess all we have to do is wait and see.

[eastwest]

Originally Posted by yazm1991

Not sure if this is good news. Many airliner mergers have failed horribily, and if an airline other than one in "oneworld" mergers with RJ, then RJ will be asked to leave "oneworld"

I guess all we have to do is wait and see.

In this case there won't be a national carrier for Jordan! why? RJ is still generating profits even in the economic crisis, not a wise decision if it happens

[yazm1991]

Originally Posted by eastwest

In this case there won't be a national carrier for Jordan! why? RJ is still generating profits even in the economic crisis, not a wise decision if it happens

RJ would still the national carrier for Jordan. Same colours, same name, same everything. The only difference would be that they would buy fuel, food and equipment together with their partner. But in doing so may risk being asked to leave oneworld unless the airline they merge with is also a memeber.

It seems that RJ is more keen on merging with an Middle-East airline...I don't think it will be the likes of Emirates, Qatar or Etihad maybe MEA, Gulf Air or Oman Air.

[Thunderbolt]

Originally Posted by yazm1991

Royal Jordanian to decide on possible 777 or A330 lease
26/10/09

Royal Jordanian Airlines is intending to decide within a couple of months whether to lease Boeing 777-200 or Airbus A330-200 aircraft as a replacement for its Airbus A310s.

It is considering acquiring three aircraft, on three- or four-year leases, to carry out a one-for-one replacement.

Royal Jordanian's new chief executive, Hussein Dabbas, detailed the plan to Air Transport Intelligence during the Arab Air Carriers Organization conference in Jeddah.

He says the airline has had to rethink its interim fleet strategy after the delays to the Boeing 787 programme, which have pushed back Royal Jordanian's deliveries to 2013.

Dabbas says the airline is "in discussions with Boeing and Airbus, and lessors" over a possible 777 or A330 lease, adding that the alternative is to retain the three passenger A310s for a longer period.

The carrier is already planning to refurbish the interiors on its A340 long-haul fleet from September-October 2010, having signed an agreement with Sicma.

Royal Jordanian is planning a route to Mosul next year, expanding further its services to Iraq, as well as the holy city of Medina in Saudi Arabia. Dabbas also identifies Johannesburg as a candidate destination for the airline.

http://www.flightglobal.com/articles...330-lease.html

The Airbus 330 will fit RJ's fleet better with the commonality of the 319,320,321 and the 340. Reduces costs of maintenance and training. Although a fantastic aircraft, the 777 is larger and will be too much metal for RJ. Neverthless, Boeing might offer an attractive lease contract for 777s to compensate for the late delivery of the 787.

[yazm1991]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt

The Airbus 330 will fit RJ's fleet better with the commonality of the 319,320,321 and the 340. Reduces costs of maintenance and training. Although a fantastic aircraft, the 777 is larger and will be too much metal for RJ. Neverthless, Boeing might offer an attractive lease contract for 777s to compensate for the late delivery of the 787.

Competly agree with this, RJ has always been an "Airbus Airline". And when they ordered the 787's many were shocked. But at the end of they day the RJ colour scheme will look great on either aircraft.