So what new destinations have Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways added to their globe-spanning networks in the last seven months? Which services have been dropped (or suspended) and which have been downgraded from non-stop to one-stop? And what are their plans for the rest of 2012?
United launches daily flights from Washington Dulles to Doha via Dubai.
flydubai connects its base at Dubai International Airport with Sana’a in Yemen.
Emirates celebrates its new route from Dubai to Seattle, the home of Boeing, with major celebrations. Hopes for strong traffic to India.
Emirates hopes to generate significant long-haul traffic out of Lisbon starting in July. But which were the airport’s leading non-European country markets in 2011 and how fast are they growing? What’s currently the best option for passengers wanting to travel between Portugal and Asia?
flydubai now flies from Dubai International Airport to Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
flydubai launches three-weekly flights from Dubai to Taif, near Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.
Emirates launches new routes to USA, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
flydubai now flies from Dubai International Airport to Najaf in Iraq, competing with Iraqi Airways and indirectly with Air Arabia.
flydubai now flies to Baghdad from its Dubai Airport base. This is the low-cost airline’s third destination in Iraq.
Fifty destinations in just two and a half years shows just how quickly flydubai is growing. But where is Kyrgyzstan currently connected to and what is flydubai’s schedule? And why is the IATA code for Bishkek FRU?
