Smart E-gates at Dubai Airport The General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) will be installing 40 Smart e-Gates across Dubai Airport terminals to ease passenger entry and exit. The system, equipped with retinal scan using a high-accuracy camera, will eliminate the need for the eye scan and e-Gate card currently issued by the [...]
Dubai International Airport has begun 2012 on a strong note with record monthly passenger traffic of over 4.85 million in January. Passenger traffic in January reached 4.852 million passengers, surpassing the previous record of 4,724,109 of July 2011, and a 14% increase compared to 4.254 million recorded in January 2011. The 14% upsurge is the [...]
Despite being less than three years old, flydubai has already reached the significant milestone of announcing its 50th destination. And true to its pioneering approach to network development it has selected Bishkek in the Kyrgyz Republic (also known as Kyrgyzstan), which it will begin serving twice-weekly with a 737-800 from 7 February. This will increase [...]
Flydubai is set to shift operations to Al Maktoum Airport in Jebel Ali, according to Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, President of Dubai Department of Civil Aviation and Chairman and Chief Executive Emirates Airline and Group. The move aims to reduce traffic congestion at Dubai Airport following increasing traffic and growth of fleets. Sheikh [...]
flydubai launched flights last week to its western-most destination with the introduction of 4-times weekly flights from Dubai Airport to Belgrade in Serbia using a 737-800. Flights from Dubai depart at 09:10 in the morning and are scheduled to take 5 hours and 45 minutes while flights from Belgrade depart at 12:40 and are scheduled [...]
Flydubai have continued to expand their network between Dubai and India by launching flights to its 3rd Indian destination. The airline now flies once a week from Dubai to Ahmedabad in Gujarat in western India. Competition comes from the low-cost airline’s parent Emirates, which operates the route ten times weekly. Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of [...]
Dubai’s low cost airline Flydubai has launched its 6th route to Saudi Arabia on 17th July. Flydubai now flies daily from its Dubai International Aiport base to Dammam with its 189-seat 737-800s. Flydubai’s last Saudi routes to be launched were Riyadh and Jeddah, which were both launched in May. The new route faces considerable competition, [...]
Flights to Kazan and Ufa Flydubai, the world’s fastest growing start-up airline has added two new Russian destinations to its network with flights to Kazan and Ufa. The new routes bring Flydubai’s network to 43 destinations across the GCC, Middle East, Africa, Indian Sub-Continent, Asia and the fringes of Europe. Kazan is one of the [...]
Dubai Airports has been given the go-ahead to launch a $7.8 billion expansion programme to boost capacity at Dubai International Airport from 60 million to 90 million passengers per year by 2018. With terminal expansion twice the footprint of London Heathrow Terminal 5, additional aircraft movements will be accommodated on the ground with the addition [...]
Bus Service to Dubai Airport by Flydubai Flydubai has now introduced a dedicated bus service for those wishing to travel from Abu Dhabi and Al Ain to Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 2. The service which begun on 15th June 2011 will operate 4 times a day to Abu Dhabi and 3 times a day to [...]
Flydubai is set to start 7 weekly flights from Septemeber this year to the following fast growing airports, Kiev, Donetsk & Kharkiv. The latest country to welcome Dubai’s rapidly expanding low cost airline, flydubai is the Ukraine. This week it was confirmed that Flydubai would begin flights to Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kiev Borispol which are [...]
Smart E-gates at Dubai Airport The General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) will be installing 40 Smart e-Gates across Dubai Airport terminals to ease passenger entry and exit. The system, equipped with retinal scan using a high-accuracy camera, will eliminate the need for the eye scan and e-Gate card currently issued by the [...]
The Dubai Taxi Corporation (DTC) and Roads &Transport Authority (RTA) has introduced a new luxury taxi service in Dubai aimed at serving customers better. The fleet includes 20 high-end vehicles, all painted black, and driven by hand-picked drivers with excellent track records. Commuters will be offered high quality services, with privacy being one of the [...]
