Air Arabia to launch flights between Sharjah and Amman

Air Arabia, a Sharjah-based low cost airline, is to launch flights to Amman from 11th November 2005.

Sheikh Abdullah bin Mohammed Al Thani, Air Arabia’s Chairman said, “Jordanians in the UAE have been waiting to take advantage of the low fares that we offer to destinations across the Middle East and North Africa to take them home. We thank the Jordanian Civil Aviation Authorities for granting us rights to fly to Amman and hope that they will see the benefit to their residents and allow us to fly more times a week to Amman.”

Weekly flights to Amman will commence from Friday 11th November, departing Sharjah at 09:00, arriving in Amman at 10:30, departing Amman at 11:15 and arriving back in Sharjah at 16:15. The airline also recently began flights to Aqaba with 2 flights a week every Thursday and Sunday, departing Sharjah at 10:15 to arrive in Aqaba at 11:40, departing from Aqaba at 12:25 to arrive back in Sharjah at 18:45.

Air Arabia now flies from Sharjah to twenty three destinations: Aleppo and Damascus (Syria); Alexandria, Assiut, Luxor and Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt); Aqaba and Amman (Jordan); Astana and Almaty (Kazakhstan); Bahrain; Beirut (Lebanon); Colombo (Sri Lanka); Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh (KSA), Doha (Qatar); Khartoum (Sudan); Kuwait; Mumbai and Nagpur (India); Muscat (Oman); and Sana’a (Yemen).

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