Dubai-based budget carrier flydubai signed an agreement with the Mohammed bin Rashid Aerospace Hub (MBRAH) for its first purpose-built Maintenance, Repair, and Overhaul (MRO) facility on Wednesday on the sidelines of the Dubai Airshow 2023.
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00:00I feel of course extremely honoured that we are in Fly Dubai first. I've been entrusted
00:08by His Royal Highness and Sheikh Ahmed entrusted to operate wide-body and go to this level.
00:15This meant that the people of Fly Dubai have done a good job to deserve this honour and challenge.
00:22Very excited because this challenge definitely will always bring the best in us and honoured
00:31to be able to do that. From our point of view I mean by the time I think we get the aircraft
00:36we will be 18 years old as an airline so we are coming of age and again that is a fantastic sort
00:43of time to grow and expand what we have done in Fly Dubai where we challenge the convention
00:51and created the airline that we have right now came with of course support that we got
00:59from the infrastructure that we have here in Dubai and all of that and we think
01:04this ingredients is also right there for the future to allow us to do more and succeed more
01:15and we always are guided by the principle embedded in us by His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid
01:22but His Highness always said if you stand still people will pass you by and we will never want to
01:28stand still and we want always to take the challenge on to push ourselves and take advantage
01:34of the facilities position that the United Arab Emirates found itself and our leaders position
01:41us here in Dubai. What happened right now you can understand it based on all of the logistics
01:50and the distribution chains and the coming back life after Covid. I mean we we see this not only
01:58with the with the aircraft with with everything and we understand that that is the case but we
02:05also feel that we are in the final phase of this problem and things will be better moving on.
02:16Boeing is one of the greatest company in the whole world let alone in the airline business
02:24of course they have high standard of course they will be better but you also realistic it's not
02:30only a Boeing issue all the supply chains they will be all right we are very confident.
02:35This aircraft gives us a scope to dream and then gives us a bigger area to sort of
02:46focus on and we are extremely sort of confident and we trust that the you know what Dubai
02:58composition of traffic 10 years ago 20 years ago is not the same now and it's going to continue
03:04to grow and change and we believe that change and growth okay you have enough there for us to
03:12to expand and take on a bigger map of the world to sort of fly to so yeah majority of the routes
03:23will be new longer haul traffic than what we currently have and then there will be some
03:30routes where we currently are short in terms of capacity with capacity restraints you know you
03:38get flexibility by having this aircraft so wherever we have still a lack of flexibility
03:44by that time we can deploy this aircraft that's why a smaller part of this idea where we deploy
03:50is on our current routes majority of it will be new. In FlyDubai we are committed to operate to
03:57both airports and I was saying to the guys you know if you heard last year we had the World Cup
04:02here and what an exciting time so it's always nice to come and operate we have very specific plan
04:10to operate here and grow and this takes into account the availability of capacity in Dubai
04:18airport and what will be available here and our future plan to grow it will be very strong fourth
04:24quarter for us we already see that and I'm sure we'll do better than last year first half of next
04:31year looks very good too.