Kuwait’s first private airline, no-frills al-Jazeera Airways, said on Saturday it would begin operations in February with two leased Airbus jets. “Al-Jazeera Airways will begin operations in February with two Airbus 320-200 which will be rented for 6 to 8 months,” Jazeera’s Vice President of Operations, Captain Adel al-Barjas, said.

When the two planes are returned in October 2005, Jazeera will receive the first two of four Airbus jets already purchased; it will get the other two in October 2006, he said. Barjas said that al-Jazeera was also in talks to purchase four other Airbus planes and had the option to decide on that up to 2008. [Read more…]