flydubai to start flights between Muscat and Mumbai from October 28

Muscat: Dubai-based flydubai announced the launch of flights to Mumbai, bringing the total number of destinations served by the carrier in India to seven, with 25 flights a week.

flydubai will operate five flights a week between Muscat and Mumbai via Dubai, starting from October 28, 2014.

flydubai currently operates four flights a day from Muscat to Dubai and provides excellent connections for the Mumbai bound passengers.

flydubai to start five-times-a-week flights to Mumbai from October

Mumbai: Commencing on October 28, 2014, flydubai will operate direct flights five times a week between Dubai International Airport’s Terminal 2 and Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport, and increase the frequency of flights to Delhi to five weekly. With the addition of Mumbai to its network, flydubai now serves seven destinations in India, with 25 flights a week, a release states.

Flight FZ445 will depart from Dubai at 2240 hrs local time on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, landing in Mumbai at 0300 hrs local time.

Flight FZ446 will depart from Mumbai at 0400 hrs on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, and arrive in Dubai at 0600 hrs local time.

Flydubai announce new Mumbai service

Dubai: Flydubai announced on Wednesday that it will launch a five times weekly service to Mumbai on October 28.
The flights will operate from Dubai International’s Terminal 2 and Mumbai’s Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport.
Dubai’s discount carrier will also increase the frequency on its Delhi route to five times weekly on October 28.
Flydubai will serve seven destinations in India with 25 flights a week when Mumbai services commence.
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Kochi: : ‘Pack more, pay more’ seems to be the new mantra of airline companies, when it comes to taming passengers from the state who want to make the most of their baggage allowance.
Dubai-based airline Flydubai, which recently started operations from Kerala, limits cabin luggage at 7 kg. The base ticket rate of the airline from Kochi to Dubai is Rs. 17,000. While flying economy class, passengers who book tickets on the airline website can pre-pay to check in 20 kg of baggage or more at flat rates. Those who opt to make the payment at the airport will have to pay a per kg rate.
“Air fares have always been determined by factors such as luggage, food and in-flight entertainment. Now the customer has the choice to determine the fare. If he goes overseas for shopping and need to bring back more luggage, only then he needs to pay more. This is a fair deal and customers in the state will be more benefited by this,” said Sudhir Sreedharan, Senior vice president, Commercial Operations, Flydubai.

Flydubai Begins Kochi Service

Kochi: Visa-on-arrival facility and bilateral agreements between India and GCC countries are likely to reduce tariff in the region, said Sudhir Sreedharan, Senior Vice President, Flydubai Airlines, a UAE government-owned company.

Speaking to media here on Wednesday, he said that the recently held IPL matches in Dubai had attracted a sizable number of people to the region and if the visa-on-arrival facility is in place there will be a rush to India for medical treatment from the West Asian region. He also said that the airlines is aiming to tap more markets in India.
Meanwhile,  Flydubai has started operations to Delhi, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram. It will have four weekly flights to Delhi and three weekly flights to Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram to West Asian countries. With this the total number of Indian cities served by the carrier will be six, including existing routes of Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Lucknow.

flydubai also open to investing in an Indian carrier

flydubai (FZ, Dubai Int'l) has become the latest Gulf-based carrier to put the word out that it would be open to an investment in a viable Indian carrier should the opportunity arise.

“The focus from shareholders is to grow the airline in Dubai, and right now we have no mandate to go outside. But we have a dialogue with Indian airlines all the time. If we find a good opportunity, we will consider it. We will then go and seek approval from the shareholders,” CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith told India's Business Standard.

flydubai eyes stakes in India's budget airlines

Close on the heels of Qatar Airways showing an interest in the country’s largest budget carrier IndiGo, Dubai-based low-cost carrier flydubai on Monday said it was “open” to investing in an efficient Indian airline.
“The focus from shareholders is to grow the airline in Dubai, and right now we have no mandate to go outside. But we have a dialogue with Indian airlines all the time. If we find a good opportunity, we will consider it. We will then go and seek approval from the shareholders,” said chief executive officer Ghaith Al Ghaith.
The Indian government allowed foreign airlines to buy up to 49 per cent stakes in Indian carriers in September 2012. Since then, the Abu Dhabi-based Etihad Airways has bought a 24 per cent stake in Naresh-Goyal’s Jet Airways.

flydubai says ready to fly to any destination available to it

New Delhi: Gulf budget airline 'flydubai', which launched its flights to Delhi and two other cities last week, today said it was ready to operate from any other city which could be made available by the Indian government.
"We are ready to take any challenge... Any destination that is available for us, we can operate," 'flydubai' CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith said here. However, all this would depend on the bilateral air services agreement between India and Dubai.
He said the state-owned airline planned to connect smaller cities in India with the Gulf region as "we believe in empowering people in smaller cities".

Dubai-based carrier 'flydubai' doubles its network in India

Dubai: Budget airline 'flydubai' will begin flights to three Indian cities, including Delhi, from Dubai next week, doubling the number of its destinations in India.
The Dubai-based carrier will operate four weekly flights to Delhi from June 1 and three weekly flights to both Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram from June 2 and 3 respectively. The new routes will bring the total number of Indian cities served by the carrier to six, including its existing routes Ahmedabad, Hyderabad and Lucknow.
"I would like to take this opportunity to thank the authorities for granting us the approval to operate these flights between Dubai and India," said Ghaith Al Ghaith, the Chief Executive Officer of flydubai.