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Blue Bird Aviation and Air Arabia inaugurates its first flight to Karachi

Mar 2007: Air Arabia held an inaugural ceremony of its first flight to Karachi at Transit Restaurant, Jinnah Terminal. The ceremony was attended by Mr. Adel Ali CEO Air Arabia, Senator Babar Ghori; Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping , Senator Nisar Memom; Chairman defense Committee Senate of Pakistan , Senator Asif Jatoi; Member Defence Committee, Senate of Pakistan, Airport functionaries and Board of Directors, Gerry's Group.

Air Arabia LLC, the first low-fares airline in the Middle East and North Africa, has announced its flights schedule for 2007 for its two new destinations in Pakistan.

Air Arabia Chief Executive Officer, Adel Ali said: Air Arabia is proud to add Karachi and Peshawar to its destinations. This step is part of our strategic commitment to offer value for money service to the region. We are confident that adding these two destinations can effectively cater to the large number of the Pakistani community living out side of Pakistan and to offer an alternative cost effective travel for customers in Pakistan.

Operations to Karachi start officially on the 6th of March with frequency of three flights a week. Departing Sharjah at 11:45 and arriving Karachi at 14:35 local time. Flights depart from Karachi at 15:20 and arrive Sharjah at 16:15. Frequency will increase to 4 flights per week effective 3rd of April.

Operations to Peshawar start officially on the 7th of March with frequency of two flights a week departing Sharjah at 12:40 and arriving Peshawar at 17:00 hrs local time. Flights depart Peshawar at 17:45 to arrive Sharjah at 20:20. Frequency will increase to 3 flights per week effective 3rd of April.

Current Air Arabia destinations include Aleppo, Damascus and Latakia (Syria); Alexandria, Assiut and Luxor (Egypt); Amman (Jordan); Astana and Almaty (Kazakhstan); Bahrain; Beirut (Lebanon); Colombo (Sri Lanka); Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh (KSA), Doha (Qatar); Istanbul (Turkey); Kabul (Afghanistan); Katmandu (Nepal); Khartoum (Sudan); Kuwait; Chennai, Jaipur, Kochi, Mumbai, Nagpur and Thiruvananthapuram (India); Muscat (Oman); Sana'a (Yemen); Sharjah (UAE); Tehran (Iran) and Yerevan (Armenia).

 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
 
     
     

Gerry's has the distinction of being one of the largest aviation groups in Pakistan and is now ranked as Pakistan’s largest travel, air cargo, information technology, telecommunication and aviation concern. Employing staff strength of 1,300 people, Gerry's is honored to represent a number of international airlines which include Virgin Atlantic Airways, Kenya Airways, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Royal Caribbean cruises, Oman Air, Air Arabia, United Airlines and Cyprus Airways.

Gerry's also takes pride and pleasure to represent worlds renowned all cargo airline - FedEx Inc. offering air express and cargo services. In addition to GSA representation, Gerry's also maintains the country’s only fully privatized ground-handling operation at all the airports in Pakistan, under joint venture with DNATA, which is a part of the Emirates group. Included in the portfolio of Gerry's is an Information Technology company which includes Gerry's Net - an Internet Service Provider, Gerry’s DSL- Broadband operator, Gerry’s Satellite & Media- Telecom provider and Gerry's Softlogic.


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