Kuwait's low-cost carrier Jazeera Airways is eyeing acquisitions among Middle East carriers in the first half of 2010 rather than launching a second hub as it seeks to expand its network to 82 routes in the next five years, the company's chairman said Thursday. Jazeera, which closed its second hub in Dubai in 2009, suffered losses due to changes of regulation in the United Arab Emirates' second-largest city, where government-linked Emirates Airlines launched in June the budget carrier flydubai. “We are on the look now for acquisitions rather than opening another hub,” Marwan Boodai said. “We are talking to more than one company at this stage and we feel the time is good in 2010 to close at least one deal,” he said. It may increase its capital in order to fund any acquisitions in 2010, Boodai said.