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Saturday, November 28 - 2009

Air Arabia appoints Oman Manager

Air Arabia LLC, the first and only low-fares airline in the Middle East and North Africa region, announced the appointment of Yahya Al-Robaydi as Manager Oman.

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Al-Robaydi brings over 20 years of travel and tourism experience to Air Arabia. He spent 5 years at Gulf Air moving up the ranks from ticketing to Senior Sales Executive. His experience across the region in sales and customer service with a range of organisations makes him an asset to the team. He joined Air Arabia's dynamic sales team in 2004 as Manager Syria and now is taking his skills to the Oman market.

"Al-Robaydi is an ambitious and focused individual, ideal to develop business opportunities for Air Arabia. Oman is an important market for us and we aim to expand our market and distribution channels throughout the region and reach a larger percentage of potential customers," said A.K. Nizar, Air Arabia's Head of Sales.

"With the recent addition of Aqaba and Nagpur, Air Arabia is growing rapidly and I look forward to being part of this innovative airline and to expand the brand in Oman. Air Arabia is committed to bringing in more tourists and trade to Oman and offering the opportunity to more Omanis and expatriates to travel to the UAE and onward to more destinations," exclaimed Al-Robaydi.

Air Arabia currently flies from Sharjah to eighteen destinations, soon to be twenty: Aleppo and Damascus (Syria); Alexandria, Assiut, Luxor and Sharm El Sheikh (Egypt); Bahrain; Beirut (Lebanon); Colombo (Sri Lanka); Dammam, Jeddah and Riyadh (KSA), Doha (Qatar); Khartoum (Sudan); Kuwait; Mumbai (India); Muscat (Oman); and Sana'a (Yemen); Twice weekly flights to Aqaba and three times weekly flights to Nagpur, India will start in October 05.

Committed to enabling customers unable to afford air travel in the past to start travelling throughout the region and those who do travel to travel more frequently, Air Arabia offers tremendous opportunities to travellers who are looking for competitive fares. The airline enables more convenient and frequent air travel, while providing the lowest fares in the market without sacrificing the standards of safety, quality or service offered.
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Notes and media contacts

Bookings can be made through Air Arabia's call centres in Muscat on (24) 700828, Sohar on (26) 846388, through the website or appointed travel agents.

About Air Arabia LLC:
Air Arabia LLC was established as a fully fledged commercial airline of the United Arab Emirates on 3rd February 2003 by an Ameeri decree issued by His Highness Dr. Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohamed Al Qassimi, the Ruler of Sharjah and Member of the Supreme Council of the UAE. The Air Arabia fleet consists of five modern A320 aircraft flying directly to destinations in: Bahrain, Egypt, India, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria and Yemen. Flights to Jordan are due to commence 19th October 05.

Air Arabia Contact:
Jyotsna Habibullah
Marketing Communications Manager
Tel: (+971 6) 508 8888 / 508 8853

Press Contact:
Cheryl Crawford
Gambate! Communications
Tel: (+971 4) 391 6424

Air Arabia Oman Contact:
Yahya Al-Robaydi
Manager, Oman
Tel: 00968 2470 2882
Fax: 00968 2478 5371

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