Air Arabia

Air Arabia العربية للطيران
IATA code :	G9
ICAO code :	ABY
Call sign :	ARABIA
Founding:	2003
Seat:	Sharjah , United Arab Emirates
Turnstile :	Sharjah airport
Home airport :	Sharjah airport
IATA prefix code :	514
Management:	Adel Abdullah Ali ( CEO )
Frequent Flyer Program :	Airewards
Fleet size:	43 (+ 120 orders)
Aims:	international
Website:	www.airarabia.com

Air Arabia ( Arabic العربية للطيران, DMG al-ʿArabiyya li-ṭ-ṭayarān ) is a low-cost airline from the United Arab Emirates based in Sharjah and based at Sharjah Airport .

history

Air Arabia was founded on February 3rd, 2003 by Sheikh Sultan bin Mohamed al-Qasimi , the Emir of the Emirate of Sharjah, as the first low-cost airline in the Middle East. The company is a member of the Arab Air Carriers Organization . For 2006, Air Arabia reported a turnover of 749.16 million AED .

On June 19, 2007 the company was listed as Air Arabia PJSC in the UAE.

In January 2015, Air Arabia took over 49% of Petra Airlines, the name was then changed to Air Arabia Jordan . Petra Airlines was interesting for Air Arabia because Jordan has an Open Skies agreement with the European Union . Air Arabia Jordan ceased flight operations at the beginning of April 2018.

For the 15th anniversary, a new brand identity was presented on October 28, 2018. The seagull at the tail of the aircraft has been made larger and is now red on a white background with gray dots behind the seagull (previously the seagull was white on a red background) and the lettering is no longer "airarabia.com" but "AirArabia". As of 2019, the company received Airbus A321 and had a total of 55 Airbus aircraft at its disposal. In December, the decision to renew the fleet was made against the Boeing 737 MAX and Embraer-E2, and thus in favor of the Airbus A320neo .

Subsidiaries

• Air Arabia Maroc SA (29%)
• Air Arabia Egypt SAE (40%)

Former subsidiaries:

• Air Arabia Jordan LLC
• Fly Yeti

Destinations

From Sharjah, Air Arabia serves various destinations in Africa , Asia and Europe . In the German-speaking region, there are flights to Basel-Mulhouse , Frankfurt am Main , Munich and Cologne / Bonn and, since September 18, 2019, Vienna too . With the 120 newly ordered aircraft, new destinations will be added to the route network, with a particular focus on Southeast Asia, but destinations in Europe will also be added.

fleet

As of March 2020, the Air Arabia fleet consists of 43 aircraft with an average age of 5.1 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks	Seats	Average age (April 2020)
Airbus A320-200	39		35 with Sharklets equipped	162 168	5.6 years
Airbus A320neo		73	Delivery from 2024
Airbus A321neo	4th	27	further delivery from 2024	215	0.6 years
Airbus A321XLR		20th	Delivery from 2024
total	43	120			5.1 years

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Air Arabia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Air Arabia website (including Arabic, English, German)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ aerotelegraph.com - Air Arabia expands in Europe. Accessed January 13, 2015
2. ↑ Air Arabia Jordan suspends operations. ch-aviation , April 5, 2018.
3. ↑ Air Arabia enlarges the seagull. AeroTelegraph, November 1, 2018.
4. ↑ Air Arabia Receives the Second A321neo LR , albawaba.com, July 30, 2019
5. ↑ ^{a b} Air Arabia plans to expand in Europe with A321 XLR , aerotelegraph, November 18, 2019
6. ↑ Air Arabia destinations , accessed on March 11, 2018.
7. ↑ Vienna Airport welcomes Air Arabia from Sharjah. In: austrianwings.info. Retrieved September 18, 2019 . 
8. ↑ ^{a b} Air Arabia Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Accessed March 27, 2020 (English). 
9. ↑ Air Arabia leases six new Airbus A321neo LR 'aircraft to serve longer range routes. Retrieved March 15, 2019 . 
10. ↑ Orders and deliveries. In: airbus.com. March 31, 2020, accessed on April 17, 2020 .