Kuwait's Jazeera Airways set to place aircraft order next year: CEO

Kuwaiti budget carrier Jazeera Airways is likely to place an aircraft order next year to expand and replace a fleet of around 15 jets, its CE said Wednesday. Jazeera Airways is considering the Airbus A320neo, Boeing’s 737 MAX, Bombardier’s CSeries, or Embraer’s E2 narrowbody jets, CE Rohit Ramachandran said. The order is likely to be placed by the end of 2018, he said, declining to say how many aircraft Jazeera Airways would be ordering. The Kuwait-listed airline has not decided how it would finance the order, but it is debt free and has $100m in cash reserves, Ramachandran said. Jazeera Airways is adding two jets to its fleet of seven A320 aircraft by February 2018.<br/>