GMG Airlines Targets Dubai

Independent Bangladeshi carrier GMG Airlines is to suspend its flights between Dhaka and Abu Dhabi and will instead focus on serving Dubai International instead. It currently offers a twice weekly link to each destination from its Dhaka base, but is to cancel the Abu Dhabi flight and at the same time upgrading its Dubai service to six times weekly. In the past year it carried around 4,000 O&D passengers between Dhaka and Abu Dhabi and 25,000 between Dhaka and Dubai, accounting for 7.0 per cent of the 455,000 O&D passengers travelling between Bangladesh and UAE.

GMG Airlines’ departure from the Abu Dhabi market will leave just eight weekly flights from Dhaka – a daily service from Etihad Airways and a weekly rotation from Biman Bangladesh Airlines. However, weekly frequencies from Dubai will now exceed 30, a route dominated by Emirates Airline. Biman Bangladesh Airlines, flydubai and United Airways also serve the market, with fares ranging from $171 to $215 each way. GMG Airlines currently has an eleven per cent share of the traffic on this route.

Schedule:

Z5091 DAC1315 – 1625DXB 767 246
Z5191 DAC2300 – 0210+1DXB 767 135
Z5192 DXB0340 – 1015DAC 767 246
Z5092 DXB1740 – 0015+1DAC 767 4
Z5092 DXB1755 – 0030+1DAC 767 26

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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.