Jubba Airways (Somalia)

Jubba Airways (Somalia)
IATA code :	-
ICAO code :	JUB
Call sign :	JUBBA
Founding:	1998
Seat:	until 2013/2014 Dubai , United Arab Emirates   since 2013/2014 Nairobi , Kenya
Home airport :	Mogadishu Airport , Somalia
Management:	Abdullahi Warsame ( CEO )
Number of employees:	approx. 300 (including daughter in Kenya)
Fleet size:	1 (2015)
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.jubbaairways.com

Jubba Airways ( Arabic الخطوط الجوية جوبا, DMG Ďĩyarada EE Jubba ) is in Nairobi ( Kenya ), previously in the United Arab Emirates , based airline with a branch office in Mogadishu , Somalia . Since it was founded in 1998, the company has been unofficially considered the “national airline” of Somalia.

Jubba Airways has a Kenyan subsidiary of the same name , which was founded in 2008 in Nairobi . The subsidiary initially only operated charter flights , but received scheduled flight rights in the summer of 2011 and then took over most of the parent company's flights. This has meanwhile also moved its official seat to Nairobi, but still has offices in Dubai and Mogadishu.

history

Jubba Airways was founded on April 24, 1998 by Said Nur Qailie and Abdi Hashi Dalel, two Canadian entrepreneurs of Somali origin from Calgary , with three other partners from Somalia. With around 800,000 US dollars in start-up capital from Somali investors, the young company rented an office in Sharjah , in the immediate vicinity of Dubai in the northeast of the United Arab Emirates . At that time, aviation in the United Arab Emirates was less strictly regulated and Sharjah Airport was therefore a preferred base for smaller airlines from the former Soviet Union or for those based in crisis regions.

Because Jubba Airways did not have an Air Operator Certificate (AOC), they chartered an Ilyushin Il-18D from the Kyrgyz airline Phoenix Aviation to start operations. On May 28, 1998, just one month after the establishment, a connection was established from Sharjah Airport to Mogadishu . It was the first flight on this route since 1991, when the state-owned airline Somali Airlines ceased operations with the start of the Somali civil war . Since Mogadishu airport was closed due to the war, the Ilyushin first landed on an airfield outside the city on this route, which was subsequently flown three times a week. Later, Baledogle, a former military base about 60 miles from Mogadishu, was approached. In the early 2000s, Jubba Airways relocated its headquarters from Sharjah to Dubai and hired Phoenix Aviation to take on flight services within Somalia. Machines of the Antonov An-24 type were used .

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 in the United States , the Emirate of Sharjah introduced stricter flight operations at its airport, which meant that Jubba Airways had to suspend its flights from there to Mogadishu. Operations continued on the intra-Somali routes. Around 2006 Somalia experienced a phase of stability under the Union of Islamic Courts, at least around the capital, during which Mogadishu Airport was reopened and, above all, Jubba Airways' domestic flight operations were able to experience strong temporary growth.

Abdullahi Warsame, the current managing director, joined the company in 2003. After the bankruptcy of the partner company Phoenix Aviation, in 2005 he commissioned the Kyrgyz Air Bishkek and its Sharjah-based sister company Eastok Avia to continue flight operations on a wet lease basis . Rented Boeing 737-200s were used, among others . Abdullahi Warsame introduced two decisive changes at the same time. Instead of continuing to rely on short-term leases, he aimed to lease aircraft over the longer term, which enabled the creation of more reliable flight plans. He also planned to register the company in Kenya, apply for an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) there and thus legitimize Jubba Airways internationally. An aviation registration of the company in Somalia was impossible because the aviation authority there had dissolved as a result of the civil war.

In 2008, Jubba Airways founded a subsidiary of the same name in Kenya, which received a Kenyan Air Operator Certificate (AOC) the following year, initially limited to international charter flights. While the first Jubba Airways continued its flight operations mainly on the Somali domestic routes, the Kenyan subsidiary received a permit for international scheduled flights from Nairobi to Djibouti , Jeddah , Dubai and Entebbe on January 14, 2011 . In 2014, line rights followed for the subsidiary for flights within Kenya and for other international connections originating from Kenya. At around the same time, the parent company, which had previously been based in Dubai, also officially relocated its headquarters to Nairobi. Both companies remained side by side, with the subsidiary serving almost all international routes and the original Jubba Airways only using Fokker 50 within Somalia.

In February 2015, the owners of Jubba Airways and Daallo Airlines from Djibouti founded a holding company called the African Airways Alliance , into which they brought their airlines. After the change of ownership, Jubba Airways and Daallo Airlines will continue flight operations under their previous brand names.

fleet

Current fleet

As of December 2016, the Jubba Airways fleet consists of a 28.3 year old Fokker 50 operated by Asia Airways .

Former aircraft types

Previously, the company also operated aircraft of the types Antonov An-24 , Antonov An-30 , Boeing 737-200 and Ilyushin Il-18 .

Incidents

The Fokker 50 that crashed on September 6, 2014 ( license number 5Y-BYE)

The company recorded two incidents in its history where the aircraft had to be written off:

• On April 28, 2012, an Antonov An-24 ( registration number 3X-GEB) with 32 passengers and a crew of four on board had an accident while landing at Hargeysa Airport . The An-24 landed hard, soared again and landed again, with the wing partially detaching from the fuselage of the aircraft.
• On September 6, 2014, a Fokker 50 (from Skyward Express with the registration number 5Y-BYE) with 24 people on board had an accident while landing at Gaalkacyo Airport . The Fokker came off the runway and slid over an embankment into the airport fence. The right landing gear collapsed and the wing was partially damaged.

Trivia

Jubba Airways is named after the river of the same name that runs through southern Somalia.

See also

• List of airlines in Somalia
• List of airlines

literature

• Josua Hammer, Dean Robinson: Yes, the Airline Business is Taking Off in Somalia . In: The New York Times (Sunday Magazine) . July 14, 2013, p. MM40 (English).
• Josua Hammer, Dean Robinson: Somalia's Somewhat Friendly Skies . In: The New York Times Magazine . July 12, 2013 (English, nytimes.com ).

Web links

• Jubba Airways website (English)
• Photos of Jubba Airways on airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jubba Airways Ltd In: Kenya Gazette , March 4, 2011 in the Kenya Law Archives , accessed on August 24, 2016 (English).
2. ^ Regional airlines merge as Somali airspace draws competition. In: Goobjoog News. February 17, 2015, accessed April 22, 2015 . 
3. ↑ Ch-aviation - Jubba Airways , accessed December 4, 2016
4. ↑ Data on the airline Jubba Airways in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on July 28, 2016.
5. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on July 28, 2016.
6. ↑ 5Y-BYE Skyward International Fokker F50 - cn 20204 ( Memento from July 28, 2016 in the web archive archive.today ). From: planespotters.net , accessed on September 26, 2016 (English).
7. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on August 10, 2016.