Dubai: Low-fare airline flydubai said on Wednesday that Karachi, Pakistan’s financial capital, will be its sixth new route in a month, bringing its network to 19 destinations.
flydubai will operate five flights a week to Karachi from June 21 at a one-way fare including all taxes and one piece of hand luggage of Dh300. flydubai chief executive Ghaith Al Ghaith said Karachi would play “an important role in expanding the airline’s reach and will make a significant difference to the Pakistani expatriates” working in the UAE.
“There are currently more than 700,000 expatriates from Pakistan working in the UAE and an extra opportunity for them to travel back home has to be good news. We are in the business of bringing more people together more often and we can see the Karachi route being a very busy one indeed,” he said.
“Pakistan is already a very close trading partner with the UAE and there is always the potential for even more commercial ties. One of our goals is to use the flydubai routes as a means for people to forge new friendships, visit new places and new cultures, to experience new destinations and to enjoy new relationships, whether for business or pleasure,” Al Ghaith added.
The UAE is also Pakistan's biggest source of foreign remittance through banking channels. The bilateral trade between the two countries was around $6 billion (Dh22.04 billion) in 2009, making the UAE the second largest trade partner of Pakistan.
FZ333 will depart Dubai at 0815hrs and arrive in Karachi at 1125hrs. The return flight, FZ 334, will leave at 1210hrs and arrive back in Dubai at 1320hrs local time.
