{"id":3521,"date":"2026-03-05T03:25:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T03:25:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/?p=3521"},"modified":"2026-03-06T02:20:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T02:20:47","slug":"flydubai-reports-strong-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/?p=3521","title":{"rendered":"flydubai reports strong 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>ASIM, Mar 04<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>flydubai maintained a robust&nbsp;<strong>EBITDA<\/strong>&nbsp;of AED 4.0 billion (USD 1.1 billion) in 2025.&nbsp;<strong>Fuel cost<\/strong>&nbsp;accounted for&nbsp;<strong>25%<\/strong>&nbsp;of total operating expenses, while the&nbsp;<strong>closing cash and bank balance<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(including pre-delivery payments)<\/strong>&nbsp;totalled AED 5.6 billion (USD 1.5 billion). Enhancing operational efficiency remained a strategic priority, with&nbsp;<strong>on-time departure performance<\/strong>&nbsp;across the network improving by&nbsp;<strong>6%<\/strong>&nbsp;compared to 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The airline carried a record&nbsp;<strong>15.7<\/strong>million&nbsp;<strong>passengers<\/strong>&nbsp;in 2025, driven by sustained demand for both business and leisure travel across its network.&nbsp;<strong>Business Class demand<\/strong>&nbsp;was particularly strong, with uptake increasing by&nbsp;<strong>19%<\/strong>&nbsp;compared to 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Increased frequencies and the extension of its network across key markets further supported&nbsp;<strong>passenger growth<\/strong>, with the&nbsp;<strong>Middle East<\/strong>&nbsp;recording an 17% increase, followed by&nbsp;<strong>Africa<\/strong>&nbsp;at 12% and&nbsp;<strong>Europe<\/strong>&nbsp;at 12%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Full Year 2025 Performance<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table class=\"has-fixed-layout\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Key performance figures for:<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Reporting period for<br>\u200b31-Dec-25<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total annual revenue<\/td><td>AED 13.6 billion (USD 3.7 billion) (6% increase compared to 2024)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total annual profit before Tax<\/td><td>AED 2.2 billion (USD 591 million)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total annual profit after Tax<\/td><td>AED 1.9 billion (USD 531 million)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total cash assets, including pre-delivery payments<\/td><td>AED 5.6 billion (USD 1.5 billion)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>RPKM<sup>1<\/sup>&nbsp;(% growth)<\/td><td>6%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>ASKM<sup>2<\/sup>&nbsp;(million)<\/td><td>47,148 (6% increase compared to 2024)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Passenger numbers<\/td><td>15.7 million (2% increase compared to 2024)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>EBITDA<sup>3<\/sup><\/td><td>AED 4.0 billion (USD 1.1 billion)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Cargo tonnage carried<\/td><td>60,400<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fuel costs% Of total annual operating costs<\/td><td>25%<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Fleet size<\/td><td>97<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Average aircraft age<\/td><td>5.5 years<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total number of departures<\/td><td>126,604 (6% increase compared to 2024)<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total number of employees<\/td><td>6,763<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>Total number of destinations<\/td><td>140<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"815\" src=\"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x815.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-1024x815.png 1024w, https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-300x239.png 300w, https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image-768x611.png 768w, https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image.png 1381w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASIM, Mar 04 flydubai maintained a robust&nbsp;EBITDA&nbsp;of AED 4.0 billion (USD 1.1 billion) in 2025.&nbsp;Fuel cost&nbsp;accounted for&nbsp;25%&nbsp;of total operating expenses, while the&nbsp;closing cash and bank balance&nbsp;(including pre-delivery payments)&nbsp;totalled AED 5.6 billion (USD 1.5 billion). Enhancing operational efficiency remained a strategic priority, with&nbsp;on-time departure performance&nbsp;across the network improving by&nbsp;6%&nbsp;compared to 2024. The airline carried a record&nbsp;15.7million&nbsp;passengers&nbsp;in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3523,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3521\/revisions\/3523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/airshowsinternationalmagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}