An airline you've probably never heard of (and frankly that I hadn't heard of prior to today) wants to start flying to the United States... cool! Jordan Aviation has this week filed with the US Department of Transportation (DOT) for a foreign air carrier permit. The airline is seeking expedited approval, as it plans to…
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I have no idea what their market might be. Jordan is a lower middle income country with 10m inhabitants. There simply is no market for a secondary carrier, no matter how great they are.
Wow thats ambitious for an airline that doesnt even have any routes to Europe as of now. And they would compete directly with their national carrier that already serves 4 North American cities with not a very high volume to begin with (Doesnt have any route that is daily)
I have seen this plane parked at the Jose Marti International Airport, I wondered why it was there. The only thing I could reasonably guess was that it was there to ferry Cuban Humanitarian Medical workers who were going to aid other countries during the Covid Epidemic? But then again I have seen aircrafts at HAV that I couldn't explain, including once a Qantas aircraft (later on I found out that it is a charter from Australia which happens twice a year, to Latin America and one fo the stops is Havana)
When the Peace Corps was evacuated world wide in March 2020, Jordan Aviation was contracted to fly many of us back to the US. The plane my country was supposed to be on had a mechanical so we ended up on Air Europa. When we finally landed at IAD there were a couple of Jordan Aviation planes on the ground from countries that had gotten out before us.