Who owns Air Arabia Abu Dhabi?
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi is not wholly owned by any single company recorded here: Air Arabia (the United Arab Emirates, DFM: AIRARABIA) holds a 49% stake.[1]
Evidence: Air Arabia PJSC — Annual Report 2025. Last checked .
Key facts
- Largest stakeholder
- Air Arabia PJSC (49% stake) reported
- Headquarters
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates, Sharjah
- Origin
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates, Abu Dhabi
- Category
- Travel & transport › Airlines
- Parent ticker
- DFM: AIRARABIA
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Air Arabia Abu Dhabi
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi L.L.C. is the low-cost airline Air Arabia PJSC runs from Abu Dhabi as a joint venture, in which the group holds 49 per cent in both 2025 and 2024. The financial statements classify it as a joint venture and record it as an international commercial air transport business. Its network in the annual report includes Almaty, Yerevan, Damascus, Assiut and Pakistani cities, and the report notes that it completed five years of operations from Zayed International Airport.
Ownership timeline of Air Arabia Abu Dhabi
Where Air Arabia Abu Dhabi sits in Air Arabia
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Air Arabia
Air Arabia controls 3 brands on Brandtree, 2 of them in travel & transport.
Also in travel & transport
- Air Arabia (2003)
Other brands in airlines, and who owns them
The 509 brands in airlines on Brandtree belong to 341 owners. The largest is Lufthansa Group, with 10.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Air Dolomiti | Lufthansa Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| China Southern Airlines | China Southern Airlines | 🇨🇳 China |
| Air China | Air China | 🇨🇳 China |
| Aer Lingus | IAG | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| LATAM Airlines Brasil | LATAM | 🇨🇱 Chile |
| Air France | Air France-KLM | 🇫🇷 France |
| AirAsia | AirAsia X | 🇲🇾 Malaysia |
| Calm Air | Exchange Income | 🇨🇦 Canada |
About the owner: Air Arabia
Air Arabia is a publicly listed company headquartered in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, founded in 2003.
Air Arabia PJSC is the Sharjah-based low-cost carrier group set up in October 2003 and listed on the Dubai Financial Market. Its 2025 annual report says it flies from Sharjah, and through partner airlines from Abu Dhabi, Morocco, Egypt and Pakistan. Only the Sharjah airline is fully its own: the Abu Dhabi, Egypt and Pakistan airlines are joint ventures in which it holds 49, 49 and 45 per cent, and the Moroccan one is an associate of 44.13 per cent. It also owns the Cozmo Travel agency business. In 2025 it took 49 per cent of Air Arabia DMM, a new Saudi airline joint venture, which is not listed as a brand here.
🇦🇪 Air Arabia Abu Dhabi and other Emirati brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 51 brands that began in the United Arab Emirates. 4 of them (8%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Air Arabia Abu Dhabi is not one of them.
- AD Ports Group — AD Ports Group 🇦🇪
- ADNOC L&S — ADNOC L&S 🇦🇪
- Abu Dhabi Aviation — Abu Dhabi Aviation 🇦🇪
- Aramex — Aramex 🇦🇪
- Arjaan Hotel Apartments — Rotana 🇦🇪
- Citymax Hotels — Landmark Group 🇦🇪
Frequently asked questions
Who owns Air Arabia Abu Dhabi?
No single company recorded here owns Air Arabia Abu Dhabi outright. Air Arabia holds a 49% stake.
Does Air Arabia control Air Arabia Abu Dhabi?
No. A 49% holding does not give control, so Air Arabia shares ownership with others.
Where did Air Arabia Abu Dhabi come from?
Air Arabia Abu Dhabi originated in the United Arab Emirates, in Abu Dhabi.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Air Arabia PJSC — Annual Report 2025 — Air Arabia PJSC, Annual report; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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