Emirates, the world’s fastest-growing major
airline, is to double its services between Dubai and Munich, capital of
Germany’s Bavaria area.
It will add five more flights a week from 27th October and two more from
31st March 2003 to make the service double daily. The increase is triggered
by rapid growth in tourism and trade between Dubai and Bavaria.
The new flights will leave Dubai at 3.55pm landing at Munich at 7.35pm, and
leaving again at 9.55pm to reach Dubai at 6.50am next morning. The current
daily service leaves Dubai at 8.05am, lands at 12.30pm and returns from
Munich at 3.45pm, touching down in Dubai at 11.45pm.
The increase confirms Munich’s place as one of Western Europe’s
fastest-growing airports and, with Emirates’ existing Munich flights, will
widen travellers’ choice of departures.
Ghaith Al Ghaith, Emirates’ Commercial Operations Director, said: “We’re
increasing our German business and supporting the Dubai Government’s efforts
to attract 15 million visitors a year by 2010.
“Dubai is now firmly established as the leisure hub and commercial capital
of the region, and these new services will give business and leisure
travellers and cargo shippers and forwarders convenient connections to
Emirates’ fast-growing worldwide network via Dubai.”
Award-winning Emirates is also doubling its daily services to Gatwick and
Frankfurt and last year inaugurated daily flights to Düsseldorf, its newest
German destination.
Thanks to Dubai’s attraction for visitors and reputation for quality,
150,000 Germans flew with Emirates to Dubai last year, 14 per cent up on the
year before. Last year it also launched services to Tripoli and
Hyderabad, with Khartoum, Casablanca, Osaka, Mauritius and Perth new this year.
Emirates now links Dubai to 58 cities in 41 countries on four continents.
Next steps in its plans to become truly global are non-stop flights to New
York, Chicago and Los Angeles, opening up the huge market for travel to and
from North America. |