In colonial times, Sharjah could lay claim to being a staging post for regional aviation thanks to a Royal Air Force base in the desert. The old runway, which has since been transformed into one of the emirate’s busiest, commuter snarled streets, was a stopover on the India-UK route in the 1930s.
So it is perhaps fitting that the international airport of the third-largest member of the United Arab Emirates – which had been rapidly overshadowed by its busier neighbour in Dubai – has made a comeback through the auspices of the region’s first low-cost carrier, Air Arabia.
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