flydubai celebrated its tenth route in just over six months this morning when flight FZ015 touched down in Bahrain, flydubai's second GCC destination. The inaugural flight comes at a time of intense activity for Dubai's first low cost airline; it is less than a week since flydubai took delivery of its sixth aircraft and less than a month after the Dubai Airshow, where financing, logistics and maintenance deals worth nearly $200 million were announced. Among the passengers on the inaugural flight was Ghaith Al Ghaith, CEO of flydubai, who said on arrival that “Bahrain is extremely important to intra-GCC trade. The kingdom has a history of being a logistics hub and is still investing heavily in that. The King Fahd Causeway, a 25km link to Saudi Arabia, is used by around 12m passengers every year, as well as providing a route for hundreds of thousands of tonnes of cargo to cross between the two kingdoms. The future causeway to Qatar will further enhance Bahrain's importance.” In 2008, Bahrain was named the world's fastest growing financial centre by the City of London's Global Financial Centres Index. Ahmet Nemat Ali, assistant undersecretary for Aviation Services, Bahrain Civil Aviation Affairs, said: “We welcome this new service between Dubai and Bahrain as it is another great way for us to showcase our wonderful Kingdom.” flydubai's twice daily flights to Bahrain (FZ015 and FZ021) leave Dubai International Airport Terminal 2 at 0715hrs and 2005hrs, and arrive at 0730hrs and 2020hrs local time respectively. The return flights FZ016 and FZ022 leave Bahrain at 0815hrs and 2105hrs arriving in Dubai at 1025hrs and 2315hrs local time respectively. Flight prices start from just AED250 one way. The other nine operational routes in flydubai's growing network are: Beirut-Lebanon, Amman-Jordan, Damascus and Aleppo-Syria, Alexandria-Egypt, Djibouti-Africa, Doha-Qatar, Khartoum-Sudan, Baku-Azerbaijan and flights to flydubai's newest destination, Kathmandu
