Dubai: Abu Dhabi’s reduced quarantine needs for vaccinated fliers could turn out to be just the lift that airlines have been looking for.
UAE nationals and residents who are vaccinated are now required to undergo five days of quarantining on arrival in the emirate, down from 10 days. This is expected to stimulate demand on routes that were previously shunned by passengers.
It is a welcome move for Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, which operates flights to Athens, Alexandria and Tel Aviv at the moment. Only Israel is on Abu Dhabi’s ‘green list’, whereby passengers are not required to for any quarantine.
Abu Dhabi: Wizz Air Abu Dhabi, the newest national airline of the United Arab Emirates, Wednesday announced its first flight to Tel Aviv on April 18, 2021, following the announcement that Israel has been added to the green list (a list of green countries, regions and territories that you can travel from if planning a trip to Abu Dhabi).
Tickets are already on sale on wizzair.com and the airline’s mobile app, which is also available in Arabic, with fares starting as low as Dh99.
The flights from Abu Dhabi to Tel Aviv will be available three times per week in April, moving to daily flights in May.
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Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has announced its first-ever flights to central Asia, which will feature in its 10-strong route network this May. With massive gaps remaining in the schedules of its first four aircraft, many more routes will be announced soon.
Wizz Air presently has 15 routes bookable from Abu Dhabi in mid-May, but many new routes will be coming soon, given huge gaps in its first four aircraft schedules. Photo: Wizz Air.
Wizz Air Abu Dhabi has announced its first-ever flights from the United Arab Emirates capital to central Asia, with two routes to Kazakhstan starting in May:
Almaty: twice-weekly from May 14