flydubai to Fly to Ethiopia

United Arab Emirates (UAE) low-cost carrier flydubai has announced plans to inaugurate flights to Ethiopia with a three times weekly Dubai – Addis Ababa service. The new link will commence from April 22 and will place it in direct competition with parent Emirates Airlines, which offers a daily service, and Ethiopian Airlines, which has a twice daily service; all of these rotations being flown with widebodied equipment. Around 205,000 O&D passengers travelled on the route in the past year with fares averaging $254 each way.

More analysis of this new route will appear in this week’s issue of The HUB.

Schedule:

FZ647 DXB1615 – 1915ADD 73H 257
FZ648 ADD2000 – 0055+1DXB 73H 257

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NOTE: Schedule data extracted from Flightbase for week commencing April 14, 2011; Traffic data extracted from IATA BSP system for the year ending January 2011.