Air Arabia Planning to Link Pakistan with Ras Al Khaimah

[Abbas Ali]

Air Arabia (airarabia.com) with its Airbus A320 aircraft is planning to start flights between Ras Al Khaimah and Pakistani cities of Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar in the month of May.

Info Source: arabianaerospace.aero

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[Abbas Ali]

Air Arabia has replaced RAK Airways as designated airline of Ras Al Khaimah.

RAK Airways operated flights linking Ras Al Khaimah with Pakistani cities of Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar before that airline ceased all its operations on January 1, 2014.

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[Abbas Ali]

According to flights schedule on Air Arabia website:

Islamabad
Flights between Ras Al Khaimah and Islamabad will operated twice-a-week every Tuesday and Saturday starting from May 6.

Peshawar
Flights between Ras Al Khaimah and Peshawar will be operated twice-a-week every Wednesday and Sunday starting from May 7.

Lahore
Fights between Ras Al Khaimah and Lahore will be operated thrice-a-week every Thursday, Friday and Monday starting from May 8.

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[Abbas Ali]

Air Arabia Airbus A320-214 registration A6-ANH is operating inaugural flight G9-828 from Ras Al Khaimah to Islamabad today. Flight scheduled to land at Islamabad at 7:25 PM.

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[raihans]

so they will be positioning the aircraft from Sharjah to Ras Al Khaimah on daily basis for operating UAE-PAK flights

[Abbas Ali]

Initially, two Air Arabia A320s will be based at Ras Al Khaimah Airport for operating airline's flights to various international destinations from that airport.

Two new Airbus A320 aircraft will initially be based at RAK International Airport to service regular routes to Jeddah in Saudi; Cairo in Egypt; Muscat in Oman; Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar in Pakistan; Dhaka in Bangladesh; and Calicut in India, which will be added shortly after launch.

Source: http://www.airarabia.com/en/ras-al-khai ... 2kA8YGSzIY

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[raihans]

^ thank you Abbas for the information

[A340-600]

Another clear violation of the MoU between Pakistan and UAE which clearly states that the designated airline to operate scheduled flights between the emirate of Ras ul Khaimah and Pakistan is Ras ul Khaimah Airways. With RAK airways temporary closing down its business Air Arabia very conveniently jumped on to the opportunity and filed schedules with the Pakistan CAA to operate flights between RAK and Pakistan while it must be noted that G9 can only operate flights between Sharjah and Pakistan.

G9's sharjah entitlements have been kept separate. This can only happen in Pakistan where the competent Aeronautical Authorities seem to be dishing out permissions and traffic rights to these gulf carriers just like distributing sweets to little school kids on the road side.

While PIA has itself to blame for a lot the mess that it is in right now, the CAA too has done its bit by ensuring that the national carrier and other airlines of Pakistan are left to bleed.

The UAE GCAA has never been this kind to PIA, a recent case is the DXB runway closure for maintenance which is scheduled to take place next month. Guess what PIA has been ordered to curtail its operations to DXB for which some 15 weekly flights have to be landed at SHJ. No other Pakistani airline has been asked to shift its operations from DXB, it is just PIA. Why does CAA not take responsibility for the national flag carrier?

Two years back while EK was lobbying hard to get enhanced rights to the northern gateways of Pakistan PIA filed schedules to operate flights from SKT to SHJ. The GCAA very conveniently going against the MoU which allows airlines of Pakistan to operate flights from points in Pakistan to UAE refused PIA at the behest of EK which was upset at not getting enhanced rights to Northern Gateways to Pakistan. This resulted in a round of ASA talks and an eventual increase in flights for the airlines of UAE for Pakistan.

When will our Aeronautical Authorities stop pleasing the Gulf carriers and instead create an environment which helps the local aviation industry grow.

[Abbas Ali]

Another clear violation of the MoU between Pakistan and UAE which clearly states that the designated airline to operate scheduled flights between the emirate of Ras ul Khaimah and Pakistan is Ras ul Khaimah Airways. With RAK airways temporary closing down its business Air Arabia very conveniently jumped on to the opportunity and filed schedules with the Pakistan CAA to operate flights between RAK and Pakistan while it must be noted that G9 can only operate flights between Sharjah and Pakistan.

Air Arabia is now designated airline of Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah.

Info source: http://www.airarabia.com/en/ras-al-khai ... arabia-hub

It means Air Arabia can operate flights between Ras Al Khaimah and Pakistan that were operated by RAK Airways.

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[Abbas Ali]

Air Arabia Airbus A320-214 registration A6-ANH operated inaugural flight G9-824 from Ras Al Khaimah to Peshawar today.

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[Abbas Ali]

Air Arabia Airbus A320-214 registration A6-ANI operated inaugural flight G9-820 from Ras Al Khaimah to Lahore today.

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[Abbas Ali]

Signboard of newly opened Air Arabia booking office in Lahore.



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