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Air Arabia launched in October 2003 and was the first low-cost carrier in the Middle East. [8] The company reported more than AED 19 billion in Q4 2019. [12] The airline broke even in its first year of operation. [9] Air Arabia consists of a group of airlines and companies offering travel and tourism services across the Middle East and North ...
It has one passenger terminal with an area of 125,000 m 2 (1,350,000 sq ft). [5] Sharjah International Airport is home base of the low-cost carrier Air Arabia. The headquarters of Air Arabia is in the Sharjah Freight Center, [6] on the property of the airport [7] in Sharjah, UAE. [6] The center is an old cargo terminal.
Air Arabia serves the following destinations as of May 2023. The airline's first destination was Manama, Bahrain in 2003. [1] The list also includes destinations served by Air Arabia Egypt and Air Arabia Maroc: [2] as well as those of defunct subsidiaries Air Arabia Jordan and Fly Yeti. [3]
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi is an Emirati low-cost airline. Created in October 2019 by Etihad Airways as a joint venture with Air Arabia to expand into the growing low-cost market, it launched operations in July 2020. The airline is based in Zayed International Airport in Abu Dhabi.
Ras Al Khaimah was designated as a hub for Air Arabia for a period of ten years, extendable thereafter. [ 6 ] Growing at 25% year-on-year in 2013 (albeit from a low base), [ 7 ] the airport was refocused with efforts to attract cargo business, in particular from establishments under the Ras Al Khaimah Free Trade Zone .
King Khalid International Airport (KKIA), designed by architectural practice Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum, [7] was opened by HRH King Fahd on 16 November 1983, and opened for scheduled flights on 5 December of the same year. Until then, what is now Riyadh Air Base served commercial flights to and from Riyadh. Increased international and local ...
During the Arab Air Carriers' Organization conference in October 2009, Air Arabia CEO Adel Ali indicated that the new airline would operate from Alexandria and a Red Sea station (either Sharm el-Sheikh or Hurghada) as well as Cairo. "Egypt has different needs," he says, in contrast to the single bases established by Air Arabia in Sharjah and ...
On 20 and 21 July 2022, the first flight tests were carried out at the airport. [5]On 21 September 2023, Saudia launched the first regular service between King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh and Red Sea International, operating twice weekly on Thursdays and Saturdays.