Air Arabia,
a low cost airline based in the UAE, is to launch daily flights to Mumbai from Saturday 26 March 2005.
A one-way ticket from Sharjah to Mumbai
starts from AED 249 - excluding government taxes and surcharges and similar return fares will also be available.
Flights will depart Sharjah International Airport daily at 16:40 and arrive in Mumbai at 21:00 local time. From Mumbai, flights
will depart every day at 21:45 and arrive in Sharjah at 23:25 local time.
Air
Arabia is using a new Airbus A320 on the route, which has a generous
seat pitch of 34 inches. In addition, Air Arabia offers an in-flight entertainment system with both video and audio choices to passengers on short and long haul
routes.
Adel Ali, Air Arabia’s CEO
commented on the upcoming launch, “By connecting India to our existing routes, we can now offer Indian nationals in the region the opportunity to travel more often at lower fares to India for
business or leisure. We look forward to enabling Gulf residents and tourists that have not been able to afford air travel in the past to start travelling and those who do
travel to do so more frequently.”
Air Arabia is a Sharjah government owned airline currently flying from Sharjah ten times a week to Alexandria; daily to Bahrain, Beirut, Colombo, Doha and Muscat; five
days a week to Damascus and Kuwait; four days a week to Dammam; three days a week to Khartoum and Aleppo; and two days a week to Assiut, Jeddah, Riyadh and
Sana’a.
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