President & CEO Samer Majali stated that the airline operated 2,708 departures in August this year, a 23% rise over the same month in 2006, when RJ operated 2,200 departures. He added that the seat factor rose by 3.8 percentage points in August 2007, reaching 81%, against 77,2% during the corresponding period last year. Flying hours also increased by 14%, from 7,015 in August last year to 7,995 in August this year.

Moreover, aircraft utilisation increased from 10,1 hours per day to 11,7 hours per day for the month compared, representing a 16% increase. The on-time performance rose from 75,4% to 79,2%, with an increase of 5%.

Majali mentioned that the airline transported 240,000 passengers in July 2007, a record number that marked a 15% increase over the same period of last year, when 209,000 people were carried aboard RJ planes.

He said that those achievements can be attributed to several improvements in the airline's air and ground services, to its modern, newly manufactured aircraft, and their state-of-the-art features aboard, in addition to RJ's membership in the oneworld airline alliance, starting April 1, 2007.