FlyDubai launches flight to Georgia

Flydubai is launching a new flight to Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia; its 45th destination.

The budget carrier will be the only airline to offer a direct connection between the UAE and Tbilisi. Flights to Tbilisi will launch on November 4 and will operate twice a week. Flights will depart Dubai Terminal 2 at 2345hrs, landing in Tbilisi International Airport at 0315hrs local time. The return flight departs at 0400hrs, arriving in Dubai at 0720hrs.

Deputy minister of Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development of Georgia, George Karbelashvili, said the entry of Flydubai into Georgia was an important milestone in the development of relations between the two nations.

“Flydubai’s entry into Georgia is a momentous step in UAE-Georgia relations and I am sure Flydubai’s connection between Tbilisi and Dubai will help to establish and strengthen ties between the countries. We have a number of common areas of interest such as banking, real estate, oil and gas and tourism; and this is the opportunity to step-up collaboration in these sectors while exploring new relationship avenues.”

Flydubai currently operates five routes to former Soviet states, namely: Yerevan (Armenia) Baku (Azerbaijan), Yekaterinburg and Samara (Russia) and Ashgabat (Turkmenistan). In addition, Flydubai will be launching two new routes to Russia with flights to Kazan beginning 14 September 2011, and flights to Ufa beginning 17 September 2011. The airline’s flights to Ukraine will take off to Kiev and Kharkiv from 16 September 2011 and to Donetsk from 17 September 2011.