DUBAI-based airline flydubai has launched flights to Dar es Salaam,
Zanzibar and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania starting next month to expand its
network in Africa to 12 destinations.
"With the addition of these three new destinations in Tanzania we
have doubled our network in North and East Africa this year,
strengthening the commitment to reach the underserved markets," the
Chief Executive Officer of flydubai, Mr Ghaith Al Ghaith said in the
statement.
The airline 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 the month.
Tanzania is a regional hub for tourism in East Africa and in 2013 the
country welcomed over one million tourists. According to the Tanzania
Tourism Board (TTB), this figure looks set to double with two 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," said Mr
Sudhir Sreedharan, Senior Vice President Commercial.
He added, "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," he said.
He said that 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.
According to the statement flydubai will operate daily flights
between Dar es Salaam and Dubai starting from October 16, 2014 while
flydubai will operate two flights a week between Kilimanjaro and Dubai
via Dar es Salaam starting from October 17, 2014.
The airline will operate two flights a week between Zanzibar and Dubai via Dar es Salaam starting from October 19, 2014.
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