Source: Travel Daily Tourism Australia and Etihad have just confirmed a new Memorandum of Understanding which will see them together invest $6 million marketing Australia over the next three years. The alliance will target visitors from the Middle East, UK and Europe, with EY ceo James Hogan saying that Australia is strategically important to the […]
Singapore and Moscow A380 services launched Emirates’ A380 destination list has flown past 20, with Singapore and Moscow joining the airline’s double-decker network. With the world’s largest fleet of A380 aircraft, at 27 and another four to be delivered up to the end of 2012, Emirates continues to set the pace for A380 deployment. In […]
Five times weekly service between Dubai and Lyon Emirates has touched down in Lyon, celebrating the international airline’s third destination in France and fourth new European destination since the start of 2012. Serviced by an Airbus 340-500 in three cabin classes, Emirates’ flights to Lyon will offer a total of 258 seats including; 12 First […]
Dubai International Airport’s Concourse 3 – dedicated to the A380– makes Dubai International Airport the first in the world to have a dedicated A380 terminal. Qantas to use Dubai hub – new partnership will link Australia will more than 70 gateways in Europe, the Middle East and Africa Emirates and Qantas today announced a new […]
World’s largest passenger jet bound for world’s largest country Emirates will launch the first ever scheduled A380 service to Moscow from 1st December. The airline’s 517-seat version of the A380 will replace the Boeing 777-300ER on EK flight 131/132, one of its two daily flights to the Russian capital. “Since launching flights to Moscow in […]
Emirates has this evening confirmed it will add Adelaide to its network map, effective 01 Nov 2012. The Dubai-based carrier will initially begin the route with a four times weekly operation using Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, prior to upgauging to a daily operation on 01 Feb 2013. Adelaide will be EK’s 5th Australian hub behind Sydney, […]
Double daily Madrid flights as of 1st July 2012 Emirates launched flights to Barcelona on 3rd July as part of a tripling of services to Spain. The airline’s daily flight to Madrid went double daily on 1st July and coupled with the brand new Barcelona route, the carrier now offers three flights a day into […]
Barcelona press conference (from the left): Thierry Antinori, Emirates’ Executive Vice President, Passenger Sales Worldwide; Salem Obaidalla, Emirates Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Europe & Russian Federation and Fernando Suárez, Emirates’ Country Manager for Spain, with Emirates’ cabin crew. Emirates is fast approaching the tripling of its flights to Spain, which includes the launch of […]
click to enlarge click to enlarge An Emirates Airlines Airbus A380-800, registration A6-EDQ performing flight EK-384 from Bangkok (Thailand) to Hong Kong (China), landed on Hong Kong’s runway 07L at 17:33L (09:33Z) on Apr 7th 2012 and vacated the runway via high speed turn off A7 stopping just past the hold short line with two […]
Daily service to start on 9th July Emirates is setting its sights on the land of Vasco da Gama by announcing flights to Portugal from 9th July. The airline, further extending its European reach, will start a daily service to Lisbon in the south west corner of Europe, just six days after launching flights to […]