UAE-based carrier flydubai is an airline on the up. Its fleet is set to grow by almost 15% this year, with the delivery of 12 new Boeing 737 aircraft, and it has many more on order alongside widebodies from the Boeing 787 Dreamliner family. Even so, the carrier believes it would be even bigger were it not for delivery delays.

Still, flydubai's growing fleet of US-built narrowbody twinjets has enabled it to significantly increase its capacity in recent months, both in the form of opening new routes and by adding seats and frequencies to existing corridors. This expansion forms part of a wider growth strategy, with which flydubai hopes to support both itself and the burgeoning tourism industry in its homeland, the UAE .

flydubai Will Have Almost 100 Aircraft By The End Of The Year

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