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Wizz Air has 12 aircraft based in Abu Dhabi, with plans to expand to 50 in the next four to five years

Wizz Air to add more routes after strong year

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has reported a 150 percent rise in passengers this year. The company, a joint venture between Hungary’s Wizz Air and Abu Dhabi state holding company ADQ, carried 3 million passengers in 2023, up from 1.2 million in the previous 12 months, Johan Eidhagen, the managing director, told AGBI.  It also doubled […]

Executives from Emirates, Airbus and their partners at Wednesday's test flight in Dubai

Mena’s use of green jet fuel ‘needs incentives’ to take off

On Wednesday morning, an Emirates A380 took off from Dubai International Airport and headed down the coastline. It’s a familiar route, but this was something new: one of the Airbus’s four engines was 100 percent powered by sustainable aviation fuel. The 45-minute test flight came in a week of advances for sustainable fuels, known as […]

Passengers go premium as first class popularity wanes

One of the key themes from this week’s Dubai Airshow was the fact that while first-class commercial travel will continue to be an option for Gulf carriers, its allure has waned, amidst an industry-wide shift towards premium economy. Emirates airline, the Dubai-based flag carrier, is spending significant resources on premium economy as part of a […]

Gulf low cost airlines planes

Gulf’s low-cost carriers fuel demand for smaller aircraft

The number of single-aisle aircraft in the Middle East is expected to more than double in the next 20 years on the back of a predicted rapid expansion for low-cost carriers and short-haul networks. By 2042, nearly half of the planes operating in the region will be single-aisle jets, according to a commercial market outlook […]

Wizz Air fleet to soar on Mena low-cost boom

Wizz Air grows fleet to meet low-cost demand

Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has revealed plans to increase its fleet size by over 400 percent before the end of the decade, as budget air travel in the Mena region booms. The carrier may also expand further into Saudi Arabia. The joint venture between Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund ADQ, which owns 51 percent, and […]

As competition for passengers intensifies, Gulf airlines Emirates and Etihad recently signed an interline agreement enabling single ticket travel Video length: 03:07

How the battle for the Gulf’s skies has intensified

Across and around the Arabian Gulf regional airlines find themselves returning to a very different and increasingly volatile market after the pandemic. Pre-Covid, aviation in the Gulf and many neighbouring nations was largely defined and dominated by Emirates, Qatar Airways and Etihad.  Now, as the Big Three pursue resurgence, they are being increasingly challenged, not […]