flydubai, is continuing the rapid expansion of its network with the announcement of flights to Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city and financial capital.
Today’s announcement is the sixth new route announcement within a span of four weeks, bringing flydubai’s growing route network to an impressive 19 destinations.
Pakistan is home to many of the expatriate workers in the UAE and the low-cost flights to Karachi, will provide an excellent opportunity to make the return trip to see friends and family more often. flydubai will operate five flights a week to the South Asian city of Pakistan from June 21st and a one-way fare including all taxes and one piece of hand luggage is priced at AED 300.
Karachi houses the country’s largest commercial corporations and is the centre of financial, industry and trade sectors. The opportunity for less complicated, less stressful and less expensive business travel is also expected to create a large demand.
Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai, said Karachi would play an important role in expanding flydubai’s reach and will make a significant difference to the Pakistani expatriates working in the UAE.
“There are currently more than 700,000 expatriates from Pakistan working in the UAE and an extra opportunity for them to travel back home has to be good news. We are in the business of bringing more people together more often and we can see the Karachi route being a very busy one indeed,” he said.
“Pakistan is already a very close trading partner with the UAE and there is always the potential for even more commercial ties. One of our goals is to use the flydubai routes as a means for people to forge new friendships, visit new places and new cultures, to experience new destinations and to enjoy new relationships, whether for business or pleasure,” Al Ghaith added.
The UAE is also Pakistan’s biggest source of foreign remittance through banking channels. The bilateral trade between the two countries was around $6 billion (Dh22.04 billion) in 2009, making the UAE the second largest trade partner of Pakistan.
FZ333 will depart Dubai at 0815hrs and arrive in Karachi at 1125hrs. The return flight, FZ 334, will leave at 1210hrs and arrive back in Dubai at 1320hrs local time.
