flydubai will become the first carrier to operate direct flights from Dubai to both Sarajevo and Zagreb. It will introduce a twice weekly link to Sarajevo from December 8, 2014, while a three times weekly offering to Zagreb will follow from December 16, 2014. Both routes will be served by its dual-class 737-800s.
Kazakhstan carrier SCAT Airlines launched operations with its first Next-Generation Boeing 737-700 on the eve of this year’s Routes Silk Road forum, the carrier’s commercial director, Nikolay Buryakov revealed to The HUB Daily at the event in the Georgian capital city, Tbilisi.
Building on the momentum from last year, when 17 new destinations where added to the network, the airline has further cemented its commitment to enhance connectivity between different cultures.
Every year almost two million passengers fly between Kazakhstan and Europe, a market that the airline sees a good potential for further growth in the years ahead having grown 51.3 per cent in the past five years.