flyadeal opens Dubai office and appoints Orient Travel as General Sales Agent
flyadeal opened a dedicated sales office in Dubai to support customers and the travel trade in the latest move to increase its presence in the Emirate. With the appointment of Orient Travel as the airline's new General Sales Agent (GSA) responsible for overseeing flyadeal sales in the UAE, the airline has also recruited Mudassir Dhanse as its dedicated new UAE Country Sales Manager.
The flyadeal office opening within the premises of Orient Travel on Sheikh Zayed Road was attended by key travel partners. His Excellency Sheikh Fahim bin Sultan bin Khalid Al Qasmi, accompanied by Orient Travel co-owner Her Excellency Sheikha Lubna bint Khalid bin Sultan Al Qasmi, presided over the opening that included Orient Travel's CEO Asim Arshad and visiting senior management from flyadeal headquarters in Jeddah led by CEO Steven Greenway and Chief Commercial and Customer Officer, Rogier van Enk.
To mark the official opening, flyadeal management also hosted an event in Dubai for the UAE travel trade to provide company updates.
flyadeal currently operates up to six daily scheduled flights between Riyadh and Dubai International, a route launched just over two years ago. The airline also has a daily service linking the Saudi capital with Dubai World Central in southern Dubai that began in summer 2024.
Steven Greenway, flyadeal Chief Executive Officer, said: 'flyadeal has built up a successful split operation in Dubai to serve travellers in the heart of the city and the southern part to make accessibility easier for all. Of course we are looking to build capacity even further from up to seven daily flights across both Dubai airports as we induct new aircraft into the fleet. It's just a matter of time before we increase frequency on these highly popular routes as we also look at venturing beyond Dubai exploring additional new route opportunities into other UAE markets.'
Farooq Ahmad, flyadeal Head of Sales, added: 'We've been gradually stepping up our international sales support network across the region. The addition of a GSA in Dubai to cover the UAE and dedicated resource having Mudassir onboard, who is well known to the UAE travel trade, provides us with a strong presence to provide our passengers and travel trade with the go-to support in one of the most dynamic markets in the Gulf.'
flyadeal has been catapulted into the region's fastest growing airline with a current fleet of 39 Airbus A320 family aircraft serving over 30 seasonal and year-round destinations in Saudi Arabia, Middle East, Europe, North Africa and South Asia. The airline is set to more than triple in size in fleet and destinations served by 2030.
The carrier has embarked on its summer flying programme with the return of popular destinations in Egypt, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Saudi Arabia's youngest and region's fastest growing low-cost airline welcomes back the Egyptian holiday resort of Sharm El Sheikh; the Turkish hot spot of Trabzon; Baku and Tbilisi, the capital cities of Azerbaijan and Georgia, respectively; and the cultural city of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzogovina, to its summer network with a flying programme from Riyadh and Jeddah.
The seasonal capacity comes on top of flyadeal's recently-introduced year-round scheduled services from the Kingdom to Alexandria and Assiut in Egypt, and Istanbul's second airport of Sabiha Gökçen.
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