New Airline in UAE

[Non Zero]

More job opportunities in the sandpit!

Al Hajjar Air is actually only the unofficial name of the airline. Branding, along with other information will be revealed during the Dubai Airshow this November.

To get an idea about the size of the planes, each aircraft will have two pilots and one flight attendant–assumedly the plane would have no more than 50-seats and cover only short-haul routes in the GCC.


Fujairah airline targets early 2012 launch (http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/08/02/360265/fujairah-airline-targets-early-2012-launch.html)

[mutt]

If you are talking about jobs in the sandpit, you can add two more Saudi airlines............ who, with what, where to or when... I have no idea, but newspaper reports state that they have applied to GACA for AOC's.

Mutt

[newscaster]

This Fujairah based airline is the same as the one that was reported earlier also intending to fly to sub continent.

[Wizofoz]

So.....

How does an airline based in Fujerah "Feed" into a UAE major airline (which I'm going to go out on a limb and say operates out of Abu Dhabi)...

[fractional]

To fly domestic within the UAE, tickets will have to be subsidised. Besides, they will have to have Abu Dhabi governmnet's agreement to operate from AUH. Their intent will be most likely to take away traffic from Abu Dhabi too as all the other operators do widely in the Gulf.
I can see the reasons to want to fly directly to and from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. They have the own resident expatriate workforce.

[TCAS FAN]

Believe it when it happens. If its going to operate from Fujairah should be a short lived venture unless FJR are going to build a new runway (not up a dead end wadi), or a new airport.

I was there many years ago when Gulf Air started their twice a week schedule. Early on they had a hairy go-around, hard right to get away from the jebel with a OCA around 800 FT. Unless someone has been demolishing the jebel nothing appears to have changed, once through about 800 FT on final there is no go around, you have to land.

Many of the GF schedules were cancelled due to wind conditions, usually a howling land breeze down the wadi, great for landings into wind but prohibiting a downwind take-off.

I was invited to suggest a solution to the problem, a new runway, through the Sheikh's dairy farm (near to the northeast airport boundary) and take out part of the then growing Fujairah shopping centre - was politely shown the door and never went back, especially by air!

[typhoonpilot]

The Fujairah airline would not be a low-cost carrier, he added, but would aim to provide as much of a full-service environment as its short-haul flights allowed. Initially it would wet-lease a single 30- to 50-seat turboprop.




Helps to read the linked article :E



Typhoonpilot

[TCAS FAN]

Typoonpilot

Did read it, another consultant, FJR have been plagued with them for years. That's how FJR got into the mess that they have been during the last 25 years. Even ICAO were enlisted during the construction phase, which resulted in one of their "experts" advising the DCA to light all the obstacles, ie the jebel, and once they were lighted they could be disregarded!

Do not understand me, Fujairah as a place is great, the locals are great, but the present airport will never become commercially viable with its current runway.

[typhoonpilot]

TCAS, I agree.

In the sim I give OMFJ wind as 110/20 to see if anyone will bite. A little test of local knowledge.

My post was directed at these comments:

This Fujairah based airline is the same as the one that was reported earlier also intending to fly to sub continent.

and


Their intent will be most likely to take away traffic from Abu Dhabi too as all the other operators do widely in the Gulf.
I can see the reasons to want to fly directly to and from Pakistan, India and Sri Lanka. They have the own resident expatriate workforce.


Cheers,


TP

[Gulfstreamaviator]

The business model for any TP in Fujairah, has to be a feeder for Abu Dhabi.

Some intergulf day trip charter would be a bonus.

There is some traffic from Fujairah to Dubai, but the new road will kill any benefits to that route.

There must be some government business between Abu (Bateen) and Fujairah. That is not covered by the Rulers own aircraft.

Day trips to Fujairah from Abu, no demand.

Glf

[Gulfstreamaviator]

An ideal site would be the recaimed land near Dibba.

Running along the coast, a la Nice.

First time I was on the Dibba road, and saw the reclaimed water side residental site, I thought wow a new secret airport.....

glf

[Dubaian]

But isn't Dibba in a different Emirate from Fujairah? Nothing U about the UAE.
If it is the sensible option it won't be the one adopted. ;)

[ironbutt57]

New Al Hajjar Air to start Fujairah flights (http://ftnnews.com/aviation/13443-new-al-hajjar-air-to-start-fujairah-flights.html)

uh huh!!!:ugh:

[Catwalk Dweller]

"But isn't Dibba in a different Emirate from Fujairah?"

Nope, Dibba is in Fujairah.

"If it is the sensible option it won't be the one adopted."

You're right about that - about seven years ago, I was one of a small group who suggested building a new airport with a proper runway orientation, and we, too, were politely shown the door . . . I see from a previous post that we weren't the only ones.

[Vercingetorix]

Any traffic increase from OMFJ on an inter Gulf business model will be severely restricted due to the ATC/ATM management of the UAE ACC sectors. Capacity is the basic problem. :{

I wish them luck:ok:

[desertopsguy]

The new feeder airline due to start operations out of Fujairah International Airport has been formally named as Eastern Express. It is due to start operations in the first quarter of 2012, according to its chief executive, Alex de Vos.
Privately-owned Eastern Express has been launched by Fujairah-based Al Hajjar Aviation, together with fellow Fujairah company Abulhoul Aviation, which was set up in 2009 to operate a Cessna 206 floatplane between Fujairah and Abu Dhabi, plus businessmen from Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
According to de Vos, Eastern Express will initially operate twice-daily flights to link Fujairah, the most easterly of the seven statelets that make up the united Arab Emirates, with the federal capital of Abu Dhabi.
He has previously said that the new carrier will operate as a feeder to a major local airline that is providing support in setting up the new company, but has so far not identified the larger airline.
Eastern Express will expand its operations to other members of the six-nation Gulf Co-operation Council at a later date, he added.


Source: Air Transport Intelligence news

[freeborn]

anyone has there contact in fo web ect?

[Neptune262]

Catwalk Dweller - Dibba is actually split into three sections within the one town:
Dibba Fujairah
Dibba Sharjah
Dibba Oman

So an interesting UAE and Oman mix up there - don't forget your passport if you visit :ok:!!

The reclaimed land housing site, mentioned earlier, is south of the town and is in the Emirate of Fujairah.

As a side note, instrument procedures were redone recently at OMFJ which included an instrument departure from runway 29 (although with strict restrictions on climb rates -see charts below)

http://vatme.net/files/VATUAE/Downloads/Charts/OMFJ.pdf

[Dubaian]

Neptune262 TVM for the clarification re Dibba's confusing territorial status.

I believe quite a lot of tanker ships do crew changes/rotations through Fujairah - they anchor off there while awaiting a cargo rather than going through the Straits of Hormuz which immediately pushes up the insurance rates. That could provide some PAX for this airline if it does fly to the main AUH airport. Gives an alternative to a crew bus over the hills to DXB.