THE AIRLINE PERSPECTIVE: United Arab Emirates

Every week The HUB provides statistics highlighting airline and airport activity in an individual domestic and international market. Alongside looking at the market's historical development over the past 30 years, we take the following week's schedule as a snapshot and compare weekly seat capacity with the previous year, showing which airlines and airports are growing and which are constraining.

The data is all supplied by OAG Aviation from its OAG Analyser network analysis tool.

UAE DOMESTIC AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

RAK Airways (RT)

8

1,360

50.7 %

New Entrant

2

Rotana Jet (RG)

22

1,100

41.0 %

New Entrant

3

Sudan Airways (SD)

1

224

8.3 %

(-77.1) %

(Others)

-

-

-

-

TOTAL

31

2,684

-

174.7 %

UAE INTERNATIONAL AIR SERVICES (non-stop weekly departures)

Rank

Airline

Weekly Flights

Weekly Seats

% Capacity

% Change (2011)

1

Emirates Airline (EK)

1,370

447,883

44.2 %

20.4 %

2

Etihad Airways (EY)

612

133,805

13.2 %

16.5 %

3

Flydubai (FZ)

443

83,727

8.3 %

36.7 %

4

Air Arabia (G9)

380

61,560

6.1 %

5.8 %

5

Qatar Airways (QR)

117

19,353

1.9 %

(-2.9) %

6

Air India Express (IX)

95

17,100

1.7 %

1.1 %

7

Saudi Arabian Airlines (SV)

83

15,181

1.5 %

25.4 %

8

Air India (AI)

88

13,480

1.3 %

4.8 %

9

Gulf Air (GF)

90

12,336

1.2 %

28.8 %

10

Oman Air (WY)

67

9,817

1.0 %

2.9 %

(Others)

1,048

200,148

19.7 %

(-8.9) %

TOTAL

4,393

1,014,390

-

11.9 %

Richard Maslen

Richard Maslen has travelled across the globe to report on developments in the aviation sector as airlines and airports have continued to evolve and…