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communities, providing them both<br />

with recognition and funding to<br />

enable them to enhance their<br />

contributions to the building of their<br />

communities and their prosperity.<br />

FLYDUBAI<br />

Dubai-based flydubai strives to<br />

remove barriers to travel and<br />

enhance connectivity between<br />

different cultures across its everexpanding<br />

network. Since launching<br />

its operations in 2009, flydubai:<br />

Ÿ<br />

Ÿ<br />

Airlines<br />

Created a network of more than<br />

95 destinations in 44 countries.<br />

Opened up 67 new routes that<br />

did not previously have direct air<br />

links to Dubai or were not served<br />

by a UAE national carrier from<br />

Dubai.<br />

Ÿ Operates a single fleet type of 61<br />

Next-Generation Boeing aircraft<br />

In addition, flydubai's agility and<br />

flexibility as a young airline has<br />

enhanced Dubai's economic<br />

development, in line with the<br />

Government of Dubai's vision, by<br />

creating trade and tourism flows in<br />

previously underserved markets.<br />

AIR ARABIA<br />

Air Arabia is the Middle East and<br />

North Africa's first and largest lowcost<br />

carrier, launched in 2003<br />

operating out of the Sharjah<br />

International Airport in the UAE.<br />

<strong>NAFL</strong>-Yearbook <strong>2018</strong><br />

Listed on the Dubai Financial Market,<br />

Air Arabia (PJSC) is today the region's<br />

leading LCC with a fleet of 50 new<br />

Airbus A320 aircraft, serving over<br />

133 routes from five hubs in the UAE<br />

(SHJ & RKT), Morocco, Egypt and<br />

Jordan.<br />

Air Arabia is an award-winning airline<br />

that focuses on offering comfort,<br />

reliability and value-for-money air<br />

travel.<br />

The airline is also known for its many<br />

charitable projects which include<br />

building schools and clinics across<br />

countries in its route network like<br />

Sudan, Yemen, India, Bangladesh,<br />

Turkey, Sri Lanka and Egypt.<br />

TURKISH AIRLINES<br />

Turkey's rising star – Turkish<br />

Airlines— started its journey in 1933<br />

with just five aircraft. Today, it serves<br />

with a passenger and cargo fleet of<br />

329 aircraft and one of the youngest<br />

in the world.<br />

Now considered as one of the world's<br />

biggest airlines, Turkey's national<br />

carrier serves more than 300<br />

destinations in 120 countries.<br />

In 2013, the airline made history<br />

when it announced major purchase<br />

of 170 aircraft which will expand its<br />

fleet to 500 planes by 2<strong>02</strong>3.<br />

With passenger and cargo volume<br />

up, Turkish Airlines raked in net<br />

profits of USD939 million in Q3 2017,<br />

a record profit in its more than 84-<br />

year-history.<br />

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