Flydubai has announced service to the Somali capital, Mogadishu. While it’ll initially be daily, it’ll soon jump to double daily. Aside from point-to-point demand, which booking data shows totaled a modest ~18,000 passengers last year, it will also target those going further, who can transit in Dubai to other flydubai flights or to increasingly close partner Emirates.

Mogadishu to London, Istanbul, Jeddah, Stockholm, Doha, Ankara, Oslo, Helsinki, and Amsterdam are among the most popular markets, mainly for diaspora reasons.

flydubai adds Mogadishu

Located some 1,733 miles (2,789 km) from Dubai, flydubai will launch Mogadishu on March 8th – in less than three weeks. Clearly, that’s very little lead-in time. Using two-class 737 MAX 8s, it’ll run daily before becoming double daily on June 1st. According to the airline’s website, the schedule is as follows, with all times local.

Source: simpleflying