Air Arabia, Kingfisher announce pact

Air Arabia LLC, the first and only low-fares airline in the Middle East and North Africa, and Kingfisher Airlines, India's fastest growing airline and the winner of the award for "New Airline of the Year 2005" in the Asia Pacific and Middle East region, announced the region's first ever pact between two web-based carriers.

Air Arabia's Head of Sales, A.K. Nizar said, "We are committed to make affordable travel accessible to more and more people and connect more destinations across this region. We offer extremely good connections both ways as well as easy bookings."

General Manager Sales, Kingfisher Airlines Manoj Chacko, said, "Constant innovation is a key factor in the success of Kingfisher Airlines in India. We will have access to international consumers of Air Arabia and in return provide them access to Indian consumers from cities they do not operate in."

Air Arabia recently announced one additional flight daily between Mumbai and Sharjah from December 1, 2005.

Air Arabia now flies to twenty five destinations with more to come: Aleppo and Damascus (Syria); Alexandria, Assiut, Luxor and Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt); Aqaba and Amman (Jordan); Astana and Almaty (Kazakhstan); Bahrain; Beirut (Lebanon); Colombo (Sri Lanka); Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh (KSA), Doha (Qatar); Khartoum (Sudan); Kuwait; Moscow (Russia); Mumbai and Nagpur (India); Muscat (Oman); Sana'a (Yemen) and Sharjah (UAE).

Customers can now connect conveniently to Kolkata, Goa, Cochin, Bangalore and Delhi (Kingfisher Airlines' destinations from Mumbai). Booking can be done from their website, www.airarabia.com, and selecting any of these destinations.

Air Arabia offers significant savings of upto 30% less than other airlines on these routes.