Horus From Egypt, joined Feb 2004, 5230 posts, RR: 62 Posted (8 years 11 months 3 weeks 19 hours ago) and read 2589 times:
New private low cost carrier Smart Jet Airways will begin flights in October flying out of its base, Dubai, to destinations in the Gulf, Middle East, Europe and Africa.
The airline will initially acquire 2 B757-200s and will NOT compete head-to-head with Emirates.
Horus From Egypt, joined Feb 2004, 5230 posts, RR: 62 Reply 2, posted (8 years 11 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2569 times:
I'd say it's probably due to the fact EK has the area well covered but I see them expanding into Dammam (KSA), Allepo (Syria) and maybe other North African cities.
Yegbey01 From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 1678 posts, RR: 3 Reply 3, posted (8 years 11 months 3 weeks 18 hours ago) and read 2554 times:
Fly-K From Germany, joined May 2000, 3120 posts, RR: 53 Reply 7, posted (8 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 2472 times:
I read in a paper here (believe it was the Gulf News) a few days ago that the DXB airport authorities don't want lowcost carriers at the airport, and the article mentioned that this might endanger the startup plans of SmartJet.
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Behramjee From Canada, joined Aug 2003, 4439 posts, RR: 43 Reply 8, posted (8 years 11 months 3 weeks 3 hours ago) and read 2480 times:
This airline should too look at :
1. Dubai-Goa
2. Dubai-Mombasa
3. Dubai-Bali (but the B 757 cant fly that route nonstop...maybe the -200ER could!!!)
4. Dubai-Copenhagen
5. Dubai-Geneva
Both CPH and GVA are vvvv popular with Arabs especially in summer...and EK doesnt fly to CPH...does it fly to GVA???
Is there that much demand for leisure traffic between DXB and SPAIN for this airline to fly to both MAD and Barcelona??? I know Kuwait Airways mints money on the Malaga route which is a summer seasonal route for them and usually F and J class is always sold out to Malaga which is a twice a week AB6 flown destination in the summer months.
OD720 From Lebanon, joined Feb 2003, 1917 posts, RR: 36 Reply 9, posted (8 years 11 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 2456 times:
Since the airline won't compete with EK out of DXB, any future expansion will have to take Emirates plans into consideration. So BEY and other EK destinations are out of the question. I wonder if they will succeed with such a plan.
ME AVN FAN From Switzerland, joined May 2002, 13874 posts, RR: 28 Reply 10, posted (8 years 11 months 3 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 2444 times:
When I contacted the authorities of DXB-airport shortly after "Smart Jet" was in the press, they were rather angry. For several reasons. A) the company had advised the media but NOT the authorities B) none of the companies mentioned to be involved was/is known or registered C) none of the persons mentioned are known ---- and one of them apparently is the name of the official in charge with immigration in the emirate . So that the authorities regarded the whole stuff as thoroughly fishy !
MEA310 From Lebanon, joined Feb 2002, 660 posts, RR: 13 Reply 12, posted (8 years 11 months 1 week 6 days 22 hours ago) and read 2329 times:
There are tons of flights from between Lebanon & the UAE,too many carriers are operating this route,so even if smartjet had the chance to serve BEY I don't think they would've done so,IMO.
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