The DGCA has requested information from Scoot Airline and the Amritsar airport authority
Low-cost carrier
airline business
Flynas nearly doubles passenger numbers in 2022 to 8.7mn
The airline launches 16 new destinations and 30 routes during the year; Fleet size has increased to 43 aircrafts
Abu Dhabi
Wizz Air launches $49 ticket from Abu Dhabi to Saudi Arabia
The route will begin operations in February 2023
Airlines
15 awards in 15 years: flynas leading low-cost airline industry in the Middle East
The story of how one airline continues to fly high
Abu Dhabi
Wizz Air flies first AED359 flight to Maldives
The route will operate every Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday in October
Air Arabia
Air Arabia Sudan launched as Sharjah airline signs deal with DAL Group
The new company will be based out of Khartoum International Airport in Sudan and will follow the same product offering as the Air Arabia Group
airline industry
Saudi low-cost airline flynas launches direct flight service to Tashkent
The twice-a-week flight service, launched on Thursday, is operated from King Abdulaziz Airport in Jeddah
Abu Dhabi
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi to boost its fleet by year-end as it marks two years of operations
The carrier’s fleet grew over the past two years from just two Airbus A320 aircraft at launch to eight new aircraft currently
airline business
Saudi budget carrier Flynas to launch direct AlUla-Cairo flights
Flynas earlier said it was resuming flights from AlUla to Riyahd, Dammam, and Dubai, with two weekly flights for each city
Abu Dhabi
Air Arabia offers luggage drop-off and check-in from ‘a location near you’ in Abu Dhabi
Passenger can drop off their bags and collect boarding passes in the capital before heading to the airport
Beijing
Oil prices decline as Russia-Ukraine negotiations progress, Beijing overture sends Chinese tech stocks tumbling
The UAE’s largest airlines, Emirates, had previously stated that its’ partner airlines – flydubai and S7 ‑ have suspended certain flights to Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus due to the closure of airspace over these areas
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In pictures: flydubai inaugurates service to AlUla
The airline is the UAE’s first national carrier operating direct flights from Dubai to the Saudi destination
Air Arabia
Air Arabia rebounds from pandemic impact with $196m net profit in 2021
Results mark a 475 percent increase from the $52.5m net loss registered in 2020, at the peak of the pandemic
Airbus
FlyDubai in early talks with Boeing, Airbus about next jet order
Low cost carrier will take delivery of 33 Max planes from June through to the end of next year, while retiring 10 or 12 older 737 models
Air Arabia
Air Arabia flying as low-cost carrier sees profits surge 575%
Results were driven by the easing of travel restrictions and the demand for air travel in what was the fourth consecutive profitable quarter for the airline since the pandemic
Air Arabia
Air Arabia CEO reveals how they had to ‘sacrifice to save the sinking ship’ during Covid storm
CEO Adel Ali says the airline had to make tough decisions that helped the Sharjah-based carrier weather the pandemic, returning to profitability in Q1 2021
airline business
Flydubai to gradually welcome back over 1,000 employees from next month
CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith told Arabian Business Virtual event he is confident summer months will see an increase in passenger traffic