Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Kilimanjaro join flydubai's East African network
Dubai-based flydubai today announced the launch of flights to Dar es Salaam, Zanzibar and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.
Flights to the East African country will commence in October, expanding the airline's network in Africa to 12 destinations.
Commenting on the launch of flights, Ghaith Al Ghaith, Chief
Executive Officer of flydubai, said: "With the addition of these three
new destinations in Tanzania we've doubled our network in North and East
Africa this year, strengthening our commitment to serving previously
underserved markets."
Flydubai recently announced the launch of flights to Bujumbura in
Burundi, Entebbe in Uganda and Kigali in Rwanda and flights to these
destinations will commence at the end of September.
Tanzania is a regional hub for tourism in East Africa and in 2013 the
country welcomed over 1 million tourists. According to the Tanzania
Tourism Board (TTB), this figure looks set with to double with 2 million
tourists forecast by 2017.
"Our ever-expanding network supports Dubai's Tourism Vision 2020 that
aims to attract 20 million visitors to the Emirate by 2020. By offering
reliable, affordable and convenient travel services from Tanzania, we
provide passengers with the opportunity to travel to Dubai and connect
onwards to more than 200 worldwide destinations through Dubai
International Airport," said Sudhir Sreedharan, Senior Vice President
Commercial (GCC, Subcontinent and Africa).
Flydubai has built up a comprehensive network in Africa with flights
to Addis Ababa in Ethiopia, Alexandria in Egypt, Khartoum and Port Sudan
in Sudan, Djibouti's capital Djibouti, Juba in South Sudan as well as
Bujumbura in Burundi, Entebbe in Uganda and Kigali in Rwanda.
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