flydubai, Dubai’s low cost airline, has chosen three cities in three different regions of India to form the next part of the airline’s rapid expansion.
flydubai will begin its Indian operations with flights to the north eastern city of Lucknow on July 13. This will be closely followed by Coimbatore in the south on July 14. The trio of destinations will be completed on July 23 when flights to the north western city of Chandigarh begin.
Ghaith Al Ghaith,CEO of fly dubai said: “We are delighted to be able to announce our three Indian destinations today. India is a very important market and we are looking forward to a long and successful future, serving the needs of customers wishing to travel between India and the UAE.
“A lot of work has gone into making this announcement possible and I would like to thank the Indian authorities for all their assistance. There is a huge Indian expatriate population living in the UAE and an even larger number of people keen to travel to the region for both business and pleasure. flydubai is committed to making travel between Lucknow,Coimbatore, Chandigarh and the UAE a little less complex,a little less stressful and a little less expensive. We are confident this will help to encourage more people to travel to these destinations more often.”
“The advent of more accessible, direct, low cost fares to the UAE will also provide an additional option for Indian residents looking to travel to the UAE for both business and leisure. Currently in the UAE low cost airlines account for between 2-5% of all air travel. In other parts of the world, such as Europe and America,low cost airlines are chosen more than 20% of the time. Clearly there is huge potential for the development of low cost travel in our region, a region very dependent on air travel, and our aim is to stimulate the growth of this market rather than to take business away from existing carriers.”
“We believe there is so much demand for low cost travel between India and the UAE that there will be sufficient customers for all the carriers.”
FZ450 will depart for Dubai from Lucknow on July 14 and will operate four times per week.
The thrice-weekly Coimbatore service, FZ414, will take off for Dubai on July 15.
FZ432 will become the first international flight to depart from Chandigarh airport when it takes off on July 23.
flydubai was started by the Government of Dubai in March 2008 and operates from a modernized and enhanced Terminal 2 on the north side of Dubai International Airport.
The airline made an historic order of 50 737-800aircraft from Boeing at the Farnborough Air Show in July last year. The first of these aircraft was unveiled in Dubai,UAE, on May 18 and started flying on June 1. flydubai has been successfully operating commercial flights since that time and currently flies to Beirut in Lebanon,Amman in Jordan,Damascus in Syria and Alexandria in Egypt. On June 18 flydubai announced Aleppo in Syria as its fifth destination.
Source: Press release distribution via India PRwire
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