RAK Airways to relaunch by end of 2010

[Pieter C. 5]

RAK Airways To Relaunch By End Of 2010

 

July 1, 2010

 

RAK Airways, a United Arab Emirates based national carrier, will relaunch services before the end of 2010 after halting commercial operations over a year ago, local media said on Thursday.

 

Tough economic conditions in the wake of the global recession made the airline suspend scheduled services in May 2009, the English daily Khaleej Times reported.

 

"We are now ready to make a strategic re-entry into the market", Shaikh Omar bin Saqr Al Qassimi, chairman of RAK Airways, said in a statement to Khaleej Times.

 

Financial difficulties after the downturn were "now sufficiently abated," said the chairman of the carrier, which began operating in 2007 but had limited itself to charter services last year.

 

(Reuters)

 

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Wonder, if they re-use to stored 747 at SZB again...

[KC Sim 2]

Don't you just wonder how many airlines the United Arab Emirates has? For such a small nation to have two huge carriers - Emirates and Etihad - is in itself an amazing thing. Wonder what are RAK Airways updated plans.

 

KC Sim

[alberttky 0]

Let them grow! Create more jobs and more opportunities for all.