flydubai returns to Aleppo after 14 years with daily Dubai flights

The daily service starts on July 20, making Aleppo flydubai’s second Syria route

Last updated: July 10, 2026 | 17:01

Nivetha Dayanand, Assistant Business Editor

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flydubai returns to Aleppo after 14 years with daily Dubai flights

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Dubai: flydubai will resume flights to Aleppo from July 20, restoring direct air links between Dubai and Syria's second-largest city after almost 14 years.

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The daily service will operate between Dubai International Airport and Aleppo International Airport, making Aleppo the airline's second destination in Syria alongside Damascus.

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The move marks the latest expansion of flydubai's Middle East network and comes a year after the carrier resumed flights to Damascus.

Daily flights from Dubai

Flights will operate daily from Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport under the flydubai and Emirates codeshare partnership, allowing passengers to travel on a single ticket with through check-in and access to the combined network of both airlines.

Flight FZ1191 will depart Dubai at 11am and arrive in Aleppo at 1.40pm local time.

The return flight, FZ1192, will leave Aleppo at 2.40pm and land in Dubai at 7.20pm.

Return Economy Lite fares from Dubai start from Dh1,800, while Business Class fares start from Dh8,000.

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"Our primary mandate has always been to support Dubai’s aviation hub by creating direct air links to previously underserved markets," said Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai. "By providing reliable, daily operations to Aleppo, we are not only catering to a strong existing demand for direct travel, but we are also fostering closer economic, cultural and familial ties between the UAE and Syria."

Aleppo has historically been one of the region's major trading centres and remains an important destination for business travel, cargo movements and passengers visiting friends and relatives.

The route is also expected to support the Syrian community living in the UAE and wider Gulf region by reducing travel times compared with indirect connections.

Building on Damascus demand

"Since resuming our flights to Damascus last summer, we have been encouraged by the strong demand for travel on this route," said Hamad Obaidalla, Chief Commercial Officer at flydubai.

"The resumption of our non-stop service to Aleppo builds on this momentum, providing our customers with greater choice and more convenient travel options between Dubai and Syria."

flydubai resumed services to Damascus in June 2025 and has since increased frequencies to three daily flights.

The airline recently expanded its network with the addition of Benghazi in Libya and Bangkok in Thailand and is scheduled to launch services to Pokhara in Nepal in September.

Nivetha DayanandAssistant Business Editor

Nivetha Dayanand is Assistant Business Editor at Gulf News, covering aviation, financial markets and commodities. A business and financial journalist with a strong interest in multimedia storytelling, she regularly takes complex financial and economic subjects beyond the written word, producing explainer videos that make them easier for a wider audience to understand. Nivetha has interviewed senior policymakers, business leaders and global financial figures both on and off camera. Her past guests include UAE Minister of Economy and Tourism Abdulla bin Touq Al Marri, Khaled bin Alwaleed Al Saud, a member of the House of Saud and the founder and CEO of KBW Ventures, Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department at the International Monetary Fund and Indian ministers Hardeep Singh Puri and N. Chandrababu Naidu. She has also hosted and moderated panels, conferences and awards shows, bringing her newsroom experience to live conversations on business, finance and the economy. An Erasmus Mundus journalism alum, Nivetha is drawn to stories that affect people directly and to reporting that gives a platform to voices that might otherwise go unheard. She was among the first journalists to speak to Petrofac employees in the UAE about unpaid salaries, broke the news of the planned demolition of Dubai’s well-known “Toyota Building”, and helped set the record straight on widely circulated claims that a giant replica of the Moon was coming to Dubai. More recently, her exclusive interview with EDGE Group CEO Hamad Al Marar revealed how the UAE-based defence group deployed its systems along the country’s shore border and established a geofence around the UAE within 48 hours of the February 28 escalation. Prior to joining Gulf News, Nivetha worked at ITP Media, where she helped launch Finance Middle East, a new publication covering the region’s financial sector. Her role spanned reporting and editing, video production, interviews and events. Across print, digital, and video, she focuses on finding the people behind business stories and explaining why those stories matter to the audience reading or watching them.

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