Abu Dhabi-based Nirvana Travel and Tourism has been named the exclusive distributor for Fly Egypt airline in the UAE.

Under the agreement, Nirvana Travel & Tourism will be the exclusive agent for all the company’s sales in the UAE. In addition, Fly Egypt has announced that it will conduct three direct flights every week from the Abu Dhabi International Airport to Borg El Arab Airport in Alexandria becoming an average of a day trip as of May 2017.

Alaa Al Ali, CEO of Nirvana for Travel and Tourism, said: “We are pleased to be the exclusive agent for sales of the company ‘Fly Egypt; to fly in the UAE to serve passengers to Alexandria from the Abu Dhabi International Airport directly.

“The collaboration will enhance tourism, economic and trade cooperation between the UAE and the Arab Republic of Egypt with three flights per week between Abu Dhabi Airport and Borg El Arab Airport, effective of November 20, and moving up to the average of daily flights starting in May 2017."

He added: “We are pleased that Nirvana Travel & Tourism is promoting the city of Alexandria, the Mediterranean Mermaid and the second largest Egyptian city, which was chosen as the capital of Arab Tourism for the year 2010.

He said that this new agreement with “Fly Egypt” aviation has been done in time to meet the growing demand for travel between the UAE and the Arab Republic of Eqypt pointing out that the city of Alexandria is known for its cultural diversity and ancient civilizations and facilities that tourists enjoy on the Mediterranean shore.”

For his part, Captain Ahmed Tarek Talaat, chief executive and managing director of ‘Fly Egypt’ said: “We believe that this agreement has reached one of the main achievement of the company since we are looking forward to the travel and tourism market in the UAE, based on the historical close relations between the two brotherly countries in various fields.”

He added, “We are delighted to launch the new route between Abu Dhabi and Alexandria to serve tourism and holidays and we expect that the convergence of prices and holiday packages offered by Nirvana to kick start the “Fly Egypt” operations quickly due to the desire of people to travel to Alexandria and the Egyptian Delta in general.”

Fly Egypt airline will use the B737-800 to operate flights to the destination on Monday, Wednesday and Friday each week. - TradeArabia News Service