Budget airline nearly gets into Europe

FLYDUBAI, Dubai’s first low cost airline, has expanded its route network to the edge of Europe with the start of services to Istanbul’s Sabiha Gökçen International Airport on the Asian side of the Bosporus.  The carrier, owned by the Government of Dubai, made its maiden flight on 1 June 2009.  It has a fleet of nine Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft and currently flies to 18 destinations in and around the Middle East.  In alphabetical order they are Aleppo, Alexandria, Amman, Assiut, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Baku, Damascus, Djibouti, Doha, Kabul, Karachi, Kathmandu, Khartoum, Kuwait, Lucknow, Luxorand and Muscat. www.flydubai.com

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