flydubai’s touches down in Azerbaijan
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“We see Baku as an important economic and financial center in theSouthern Caucasus and this importance is only going to increase. Webelieve flydubai can contribute to the development of tourism inAzerbaijan by bringing visitors and potential investors from otherparts of the world, including the United Arab Emirates. We are verypleased to be able to establish regular flights between Dubai and Baku.”
Tradebetween Azerbaijan and the UAE continues to grow and contributessignificantly to both economies. The non-oil trade exchange between theUAE and Azerbaijan increased by 21 per cent from USD147million in 2002to USD318million in 2006, while the total export and re-export from theUAE to Azerbaijan grew by 22 per cent from USD143million to USD316millions. flydubai was established by the government of Dubai in March2008 to provide an alternative means of transport for the predominantlyexpatriate population of the UAE and the thousands of people who travelto and from the UAE on business every year.
Although a low costairline, safety is the number one priority for flydubai and thiscommitment was demonstrated when the airline spent US$4bn on brand newaircraft from Boeing at the Farnborough Airshow in the UK last year.The first of the aircraft arrived in May of this year and the airlinebegan commercial flights just a few weeks later on June 1.
flydubaihas now received five aircraft from the order for 50 placed with Boeinglast year and the rest will continue to arrive until 2015, with thesixth aircraft due next month. The flydubai fleet will be made upentirely of Boeing 737-800 Next Generation aircraft. This is the safestaircraft currently in operation, with a track record of more than 40years in operation. At any one time there are 1,250 Boeing 737s in thesky somewhere in the world.flydubai aims to make travel a little lesscomplex, a little less stressful and a little less expensive and havinga fleet of aircraft of the same type ensures the airline can cut downon maintenance and handling costs. These are savings flydubai passes onto its customers.
The airline likes to do things differently andone of the ways flydubai is different is that the price you payincludes only the basics that you need to travel, your seat on theplane, one piece of hand luggage, weighing up to 10kg and all taxes andcharges. Anything else is an optional extra and is charged separately.flydubai believes this approach to travel makes fares fairer. After allwhy should you pay for a meal unless you want to eat one and why shouldyou pay to check a bag into the hold if you are only travelling with anovernight bag? This approach ensure flydubai can offer one-way faresfrom Baku to Dubai from as little as 165 US dollars (USD).
Passengershave the option to purchase checked-in baggage in advance at just 11USD for the first piece and 28 USD for the second, weighing up to 32kg. A nominal payment of 1.5 USD allows customers to select their seatand just 14 USD secures the extra legroom positions.flydubai operatesfrom a modernized and enhanced Terminal 2 on the north side of DubaiInternational Airport.
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