Airblue is a low-coat airline based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a private airline and Pakistan's second largest airline with over 30% share of the domestic market. Airblue operates scheduled flights operating 30 daily services linking seven domestic destinations and international services to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Muscat and Manchester. It carried 1.4 million passengers on domestic flights in the 2006-07 fiscal year. Its main base is Jinnah International Airport, Karachi.

Services

Airblue was the first airline in Pakistan to introduce e-ticketing, wireless check-in and self check-in kiosk facilities. The airline also became a member of Sabre system that is used by over a hundred airlines to help it with ticket automation services.

Self service check-in

Leading the way with innovative new technology Airblue became the first airline in South Asia and only the second carrier in the region behind Emirates to introduce the latest self service check-in facilities at Jinnah International Airport, Karachi. The system allows passengers with baggage to obtain a boarding card through the touch screen menu without needing to report to the counter. Airblue plans to extend the self service check-in facilities to Lahore and Islamabad, and eventually to all cities on its network. 1 Airblue A321 at Benazir Bhutto International Airport.

DESTINATIONS:

South Asia

• Pakistan
• Islamabad (Benazir Bhutto International Airport) Focus City
• Karachi (Jinnah International Airport) Hub
• Lahore (Allama Iqbal International Airport) Focus City
• Multan [plan for summer 2009]
• Peshawar (Peshawar International Airport)
• Sialkot [plan for summer 2009]

Southeast Asia

• Malaysia
  • Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur International Airport) [planned for Summer 2009]

Southwest Asia

• Bahrain [plan for summer 2009]
• Manama

• Kuwait [plan for summer 2009]
• Kuwait City

• Oman
  • Muscat (Muscat International Airport)

• United Arab Emirates
  • Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi International Airport)
  • Dubai (Dubai International Airport)
  • Sharjah (Sharjah International Airport)

Europe

• Denmark
  • Copenhagen (Kastrup Airport) [planned for 2009]

• Norway
  • Oslo (Oslo Airport, Gardermoen) [planned for 2009]

• Turkey
  • Trabzon (Trabzon Airport) - tech stop only

• United Kingdom

• Manchester (Manchester International Airport)

Airblue official website: http://www.airblue.com