Medina joins the newly launched Air Arabia Jordan network

Just weeks after commencing operations, Air Arabia Jordan today announced details of the fifth city to join its international route network. Starting June 10, 2015, the airline will fly twice weekly from Amman to Medina in Saudi Arabia.

Flights to the carrier’s fifth destination, Medina, will operate on Mondays and Thursdays, departing Amman at 00:30AM and arriving at Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport at 02.10AM. Return flights will leave on the same days at 02:50AM before arriving back at Queen Alia International Airport at 04:35AM.

Adel A. Ali, Group Chief Executive Officer said: “We are delighted by the progress achieved in a relatively short time. In the past month, we have fully established our operations and have grown to serve five destinations, including two in Saudi Arabia. With the first phase of our launch strategy now complete, our focus turns to expanding the Air Arabia Jordan network to serve more of the cities where our customers want us to fly.”

Air Arabia Jordan currently operates 14 direct weekly flights from Queen Alia International Airport in Amman to Jeddah and Medina in Saudi; Erbil in Kurdistan Region of Iraq; Sharam El Sheikh in Egypt; and to Kuwait City in Kuwait. Full flights schedule is available on www.airarabia.com.

Air Arabia Jordan is a partnership between Air Arabia, the region’s first and largest low-cost carrier, and RUM Group, Jordan based travel and transport group. Its inaugural flight to Kuwait City took off on May 18, 2015.  

Air Arabia Jordan focuses on offering comfortable, reliability and value for money air travel from and into Jordan. The company offers its passengers a 32” seat pitch, the best economy configuration in the market.

Queen Alia International Airport is Air Arabia’s fifth global fixed-based operation, following Sharjah and Ras Al Khaimah in the UAE, Alexandria in Egypt, and Casablanca in Morocco.