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SAUDI ARABIA’S nasair, launched in 2007 and now operating more than 450 flights per week, recently announced its new route to Dubai International Airport as part of a strategic expansion in the Middle East and internationally.

The new route, which is already running, operates 10 flights  per  week between Dubai and Saudi Arabia – f ive to and from Riyadh and five to Jeddah.

Sulaiman Al Hamdan, CEO of parent company National Air Services (NAS Holding),  said: “We have seen a marked increase in demand from passengers to travel between Dubai and Saudi Arabia so opening up this route was a logical step in our strategic expansion plans. According to recent statistics, passenger figures through Dubai were up 14 per cent in 2010, which demonstrates the importance of the emirate as a major travel hub in the region.

“By 2011 we will have 18  return flights per week from  Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam to  Dubai” added Al Hamdan saying that the company had already added seven new destinations in 2010 to Syria, Sudan and India.

“Currently nasair is planning to add at least three more international routes by the first quarter of 2011. We are aiming to carry 2.2 million passengers by the end of this year (2010) and our current figures show that we are very close to achieving it,” he said.

There are further plans to take the total number of flights to and from Dubai to 39 per week in 2011 by increasing flights from current destinations and adding a new route from Dammam.

nasair was also due to add another two Embraer E190s in December 2010 and three Airbus A320s in 2012 to its growing fleet.

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