Air Arabia adds more flights for Umrah Travel

Sharjah-based low cost airline, Air Arabia is to offer 14 additional flights to Jeddah during Ramadan for customers to perform Umrah. The flights to Jeddah’s Hajj Terminal will operate daily from Sharjah between 19 October and 1 November 2005. This service will be available only to GCC Nationals or customers with Umrah visas.

AK Nizar, Air Arabia’s Head of Sales declared, “We have a commitment to the people of this region to provide them with affordable travel and we are reinforcing this by presenting an opportunity to them to perform Umrah during the holy month of Ramadan. Customers can take advantage of as much as 40% lower fares, starting from AED 715 for a one-way trip, making this sacred journey accessible to all.”

These additional flights will depart Sharjah Airport daily between 19 October and 1 November after midnight, arriving at the Hajj Terminal in Jeddah and arrive back in Sharjah each morning. Regular Jeddah flights will continue to operate every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Sunday, departing Sharjah for Jeddah at 08.30, arriving at 10.15 and returning at 11.00, to arrive in Sharjah at 14.45 local time.

Air Arabia currently flies from Sharjah to eighteen destinations, soon to be twenty: Aleppo and Damascus (Syria); Alexandria, Assiut, Luxor and Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt); Bahrain; Beirut (Lebanon); Colombo (Sri Lanka); Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh (KSA), Doha (Qatar); Khartoum (Sudan); Kuwait; Mumbai (India); Muscat (Oman); and Sana’a (Yemen); Twice weekly flights to Aqaba and three times weekly flights to Nagpur, India will start in October 2005.

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