The arrival of international airlines in Somalia, after years of standing on the sidelines and leaving the challenging but lucrative Somali market to local airlines like Daallo and Jubba, changed the
The arrival of international airlines in Somalia, after years of standing on the sidelines and leaving the challenging but lucrative Somali market to local airlines like Daallo and Jubba, changed the aviation game in the country over the space of just a few months.
Turkish, now flying daily to Mogadishu, and Ethiopian flying to Hargeisa, suddenly offered a wide range of connections through their respective hubs in Istanbul and Addis Ababa, leaving the point-to-point operators Daallo and Jubba suddenly seeing the loss of market share of passengers who hitherto used them to fly to for instance Dubai and Nairobi to connect on other airlines to their final destination. The two Somalian airlines carried about a quarter of a million passengers last year and have reportedly agreed to a full