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- ↑ Kassem, M. Sami. Strategic Management of Services in the Arab Gulf States: Company and Industry Cases. p. 136. ISBN 3110854015.
- ↑ "Arab Airways (Jerusalem) history from Jordan, Rest of World". Airline History.
- ↑ Davies, Ronald Edward George (1964). A history of the world's airlines. ISBN 0192159283.
Air Jordan ceased operation on 1 September 1961, its place being taken by Jordan Airways
- ↑ "World survey of civil aviation. Near and Middle East". Internet Archive. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Business and Defense Services Administration. 1961.
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