DUBAI’S first low cost airline, flydubai, will operate from a modernised and enhanced Terminal 2 at Dubai International Airport, when it begins its services later this year.
Flydubai is currently on schedule to take off with the launch of its first routes mid-2009, operating a fleet of Boeing aircraft, each offering 189 economy class seats.
Launch routes will include a range of destinations within four and a half hours flying time of Dubai and are likely to include the Indian subcontinent, north and east Africa, southeast Europe and the Middle East. In preparation for the launch of the airline, redevelopment work on Terminal 2 has been carried out.
The terminal has extended, brighter departure and arrival areas, additional departure gates, a children’s play area and new and improved food and beverage outlets. Further enhancements are planned.
“In Terminal 2 we have found an ideal home which will allow us to bring efficiencies to our operations and a range of facilities and benefits to our customers,” said the airline’s CEO Ghaith Al Ghaith.
The one level Terminal 2, with its central location on the north side of Dubai International Airport, will ultimately be served by a new transport infrastructure on Al Ittihad and Al Twar Roads, which will provide better approach routes and access.
The interior design, coupled with the fact that its 1,000 car parking spaces are all at ground level just outside the front doors of the terminal, means that check-in and transiting times through the airport will be greatly streamlined.
Flydubai aims to capitalise on the region’s growing budget travel segment and serve the considerable expatriate population by giving people the opportunity to fly more often.
