Budget Airline Blog

Travco are launching a new budget airline for Egypt to be called Air Arabia Egypt.

Existing Air Arabia, is convinced their success will be by partnering with the right company. Travco Group brings travel power to the table. Travco Group employs over 24,000 people, operates several hundred hotels and resorts, and owns cruise ships.

Their facilities and cruises are available in Europe, Egypt and the Middle East. Travco Group posted consolidated revenues exceeding $800 Million, and over one million customers used their services. Travco plans to offer consolidated travel packages to customers through the newly launched budget airline.

Kuwait’s Budget Airline has now overtaken it’s national airline as one of the busiest in the Middle East region.

During the next four years, Jazeera Airways will take delivery of a further 30 Airbus A320s – like Air Arabia, their selection of this airplane has worked tremendously well for the clientele that it serves – in fact, a few European and US carriers should sit up and take notice of what they have on offer and frankly be utterly ashamed of themselves.

If you are heading to Kuwait you should ensure you have taken out holiday insurance as healthcare can be very expensive.

The Middle East’s world’s largest listed airline by market value said on Wednesday it had set up the joint venture firm with Egypt’s Travco Group, driving shares 4 percent higher on the news. “The new carrier will serve Europe, Middle East and African markets and will represent Air Arabia’s third hub after UAE and Morocco,” Air Arabia said in a statement.

The airline is facing growing competition from local rivals including Kuwait’s Jazeera Airways (JAZK.KW) and Dubai-owned flydubai, as well as from fully-fledged carriers such as Emirates [EMAIR.UL], struggling to cope with a sharp drop in international passenger travel.

Flydubai, the cheap airline from the collapsing Middle East emirate is about to take off to India. This will be good news for all those Indian workers who have been dumped due to property and building crashed in Dubai.

Next month, the carrier owned by the Dubai Government will start flying to the northern cities of Lucknow, Coimbatore and Chandigarth, giving the airline an initial network of eight cities.

The destinations mark the first in a series of new routes to India. More than one million residents and labourers from India live in the Emirates. “India is a very important market,” said Ghaith al Ghaith, the chief executive of flydubai. “We are looking forward to a long and successful future serving the needs of customers between the two countries.”

Flydubai is Dubai’s first budget airline has received more than 11,500 job inquiries as it prepares to launch.

FlyDubai has hired 61 captains and 18 first officers from among the 8,000 who applied to be pilots. They each have about 4,000 hours’ experience as captains and average 8,000 flying hours.

Eighty cabin crew have also been selected from 3,500 applicants.Ghaith al Ghaith, FlyDubai’s chief executive, said: “We had a huge response from applicants who were keen to come and join us, which shows the excitement among flight crew at the prospect of joining a new and exciting airline. It also demonstrates that Dubai is still seen as an attractive place to live and work.

Dubai’s new ‘no frills’ airline will be called ‘FlyDubai’ and initially serve destinations within the GCC, its chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum announced today.

Sheikh Ahmed, who is also chairman of Emirates airline, said that FlyDubai will be based at Al Maktoum International Airport in Jebel Ali, and will operate separately from Dubai’s flagship carrier.  Branding for FlyDubai is expected to be unveiled in the next few months.

FlyDubai will compete with a number of other low-cost operators in the Gulf – including Air Arabia, Jazeera Airways, Sama and Nas Air.  Its launch was announced at a time of record fuel prices.

Other full-service airlines, including Qatar Airways and Abu Dhabi’s Etihad have both said they are considering low cost carriers.