flydubai adds new Russian link

flydubai Dubai has announced it is to launch services between Dubai and Yekaterinburg. The service is to be operated twice weekly starting from the 16th October 2010. There is currently no other carrier serving the route on a scheduled basis. Ural Airlines has operated some ad hoc charter routes between the city pairs. The route has seen over 15,000 O+D passengers travel between June 2009 and 2010 mainly thanks to the Ural Airlines flights which accounts for 93% of this traffic.