HotelierMiddleEast.com's sister site ArabianSupplyChain.com took a look at some of the leading low-cost airlines that are currently serving the Middle East and surrounding areas, in no particular order. The list includes market-leaders such as Air Arabia, flydubai, Jazeera Airways, Sama, Nas Air, Bahrain Air and Airblue.
Air Arabia
Air Arabia is marketed as the Middle East and North Africa's leading low-cost carrier, with a total fleet of 20 new Airbus A320 aircraft, serving 59 destinations from two hubs in the UAE and Morocco.
Earlier this year, the airline published its financial results for the nine months ending 30th September 2009, demonstrating the long-term sustainability of its business model and appeal of its low-cost services at a time when the global aviation sector is witnessing unprecedented financial challenges.
Air Arabia's net profit for the first nine months of this year stood at Dhs337m, an increase of 6% compared to Dhs318m for the same period in 2008, excluding exceptional items. During the first nine months of 2009, the company registered a turnover of Dhs1.469bn, 2% lower than Dhs1.495bn recorded during the same period last year.
The airline served more than 2.96 million passengers during the first nine months of 2009, an increase of 14% compared to 2.6 million passengers during the same period last year. Air Arabia's average seat load factor - or passengers carried as a percentage of available seats - for the first nine months of 2009 stood at a strong 79%.
Despite the market challenges in 2009, this year has also seen several accolades for the airline, including "Best Low-Cost Airline in the Middle East" for the third consecutive year at the 2009 World Airline Awards, and "Low-Cost Carrier of the Year" by both the Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation (CAPA) at the Aviation Outlook Asia 2009 congress in Beijing and at the Doha Aviation Summit 2009. More recently, Air Arabia's Adel Ali was selected as "CEO of the Year" by Aviation Business magazine, the leading industry title in the Middle East.
airline ticket costs vary widely but I'd say if you plan in advance 1,200
No Indigo Is a private low cost airline ,,,It Is a fastest gworing airline.
WestJet airline is a Canadian low cost carrier that do not serve British airports such as the East midlands. It does serve many Canadian, American and Caribbean destinations.
The official airline of Ireland is Aer Lingus. and what about Ryanair - that's the original Irish low cost airline.
no it's not. it's in east africa (cost of africa). however, its people are somewhat closely associated with arabs.
somewhere around $500 for economy class I believe.
Cost and Obama wants them to make nice with the middle east...
it was 1.20
Because in the Middle East, especially around the Persian Gulf, it is very cheap to extract the oil, which means less cost and higher income. Furthermore, the Middle East lacks many natural resources and must use their abundance of oil to get other resources that they need to improve their standard of living.
It depends what airline you fly with. It cost's $1133.16 for an adult with VAustralia and on QANTAS it cost's $1410. So it all depends on what airline you fly with
Type your answer here... There is several cost that in cure in running an airline from an to London and Edinburgh.fuel cost, that called direct costcatering cost, that is when an airline provide food and drinks to the passengers
it will cost $3000