Karachi now a low-cost destination from the Gulf

Dubai's low cost airline flydubai, is continuing the rapid expansion of its network with the announcement today of flights to Karachi, Pakistan's largest city and financial capital.

This is the sixth new route announcement within a span of four weeks, bringing flydubai’s growing route network to an impressive 19 destinations.

Pakistan is home to many of the expatriate workers in the UAE and the low-cost flights to Karachi, popularly referred to as the City of lights , will provide an excellent opportunity to make the return trip to see friends and family more often. flydubai will operate five flights a week to the South Asian city of Pakistan from June 21^st and a one-way fare including all taxes and one piece of hand luggage is priced at AED300.

Karachi houses the country’s largest commercial corporations and is the centre of financial, industry and trade sectors. The opportunity for less complicated, less stressful and less expensive business travel is also expected to create a large demand.

Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai, said Karachi would play an important role in expanding flydubai’s reach and will make a significant difference to the Pakistani expatriates working in the UAE.

“There are currently more than 700,000 expatriates from Pakistan working in the UAE and an extra opportunity for them to travel back home has to be good news. We are in the business of bringing more people together more often and we can see the Karachi route being a very busy one indeed,” he said.

FZ333 will depart Dubai from Sunday to Thursday at 0815hrs and arrive in Karachi at 1125hrs. The return flight, FZ334, will leave at 1210hrs arriving in Dubai at 1320hrs local time. On Fridays and Saturdays FZ333 will depart Dubai at 1135hrs and arrive in Karachi at 1445hrs. The return flight, FZ334, will leave at 1530hrs and arrive in Dubai at 1640hrs local time.