Means of transport Sharjah City

Regional aviation history was written not far from here, on the runway laid out by the British in the 1930s, a chronicle perpetuated by the Mahatta Museum in Estiqlal Street. The Handley Page HP42 biplane, Imperial Airways flight IE184 London-Karachi landed in Sharjah on October 7, 1932 after six days of hazardous navigation from England. Today, the airport is a small hub whose transcontinental ambitions are embodied by Air Arabia.

If you don't want to take a taxi, this is the other way to get back to Dubai. Jubail is one of Sharjah's bus stations and the 102 is the line to take. While the buses are all air-conditioned, comfortable and modern, it's the traffic jams that can turn this trip into hell. We recommend that you avoid (in the Sharjah Dubai direction) leaving the city before 10am and in the opposite direction from 4pm. The multiple stops turn the 15 km between the two cities into a two-hour journey. It is better to be warned.

Launched by the Emirate of Sharjah in 2003, Air Arabia is the Middle East's leading low-cost carrier. It flies to over 170 destinations in the Middle East, North Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Central Asia and Europe directly or via its two other hubs in the Emirates at Ras-al-Khaimah and Abu Dhabi and abroad with its hubs in Alexandria and Casablanca. Online booking and in French. The services are low cost but much improved. Air Arabia does not serve alcoholic drinks on board.

Everywhere and non-stop, the 1,300 Sharjian taxis are picked up on street corners, in hotels, near parks. As in other emirates, they operate on a meter. They are all equipped with on-board cameras. 100 vehicles are found in the eastern regions of the emirate, 200 are assigned to Sharjah airport. About 20 vehicles are driven by and for women, while nearly 100 are large enough to accommodate families. Some of them can transport people with reduced mobility.