Two additional weekly flights increase choices available to travellers DUBAI, UAE, 13th May 2014 - Emirates, a global connector of people and places, has announced it will step up its operations to the Seychelles by increasing services to double daily later this year. The introduction of two more flights per week on the route into the Seychelles will increase the existing 12 scheduled flights to fourteen bringing operations to double daily from the 28th of October this

Emirates, an Official FIFA Worldwide Partner, was at the thrilling finale of the World Cup to congratulate and celebrate with champions Germany. As soon as the captivating game, with just one outstanding goal securing the German team’s win was over, the airline’s multinational crew were ready with the medals for FIFA President Sepp Blatter. Tim Clark, President, Emirates Airline said: "It was a fitting finale to an outstanding tournament. The FIFA World Cup final

Emirates Opens VIP Lounge at Real Madrid’s Santiago Bernabéu Stadium MADRID, Spain – 29th September 2013 - Coinciding with the match between Real Madrid and Atlético Madrid, Emirates yesterday inaugurated its exclusive branded VIP Lounge at Santiago Bernabéu Stadium.   Unveiled less than four months after signing the prestigious five-year shirt sponsorship with Real Madrid, the new lounge was officially opened today by Emilio

Emirates Voted ‘Best Airline Food and Wine’ by Frequent Business Traveler Readers  GlobeRunner Awards Honor the World’s Top Travel Companies DUBAI – 18 July, 2013 – Emirates, one of the world’s fastest growing airlines, has been awarded ‘Best Airline Food and Wine’ by the readers of Frequent Business Traveler (www.frequentbusinesstraveler.com), an online publication written for and by affluent frequent business travelers. The

Emirates announces largest-ever aircraft order 150 Boeing 777X aircraft valued at US$ 76 billion, with additional 50 purchase rights. 50 additional Airbus A380 aircraft valued at US$ 23 billion.    link to a video of the announcement Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 17 November 2013 – Emirates airline has again rewritten all records in civil aviation with an order for 150 Boeing 777X, comprising 35 Boeing 777-8Xs and 115 Boeing 777-9Xs, plus 50 purchase

Airline Expands its European Tour Portfolio for the next four seasons LONDON, United Kingdom – 17 December 2013 – Emirates and The European Tour today inked an agreement for Emirates to extend its investment across an additional ten tournaments until the end of the 2017 season, as well as assume the status of Official Airline of The European tour.  The announcement was made today by Nigel Hopkins, Executive Vice President Service Departments, Emirates Group and

 Emirates launches a daily A380 Service to Mauritius 24th A380 destination on its network DUBAI, U.A.E., 16th December 2013 – Emirates, a global connector of people and places today launched its 24th A380 route, working with its partners in Mauritius to say “Hello A380” in style. At the airport ceremony to welcome the first daily A380 service, Emirates signed a new and enhanced 10 year commercial cooperation agreement with Air Mauritius, and a renewed

Arsenal stars give their views on London – from the best views on the Thames Arsenal’s German stars fly the Emirates Air Line urban cable car  LONDON, UK – 28th November 2013 – British cuisine  may be “different” and they’re yet to see a game of cricket, but three of Arsenal’s German players are relishing life in London and the UK.  Lukas Podolski, Per Mertesacker and new signing Mesut Özil enjoyed some down time

Nearly 46 million meals loaded on flights leaving Dubai   DUBAI, U.A.E., 31 December 2013 – Emirates’ aircraft flew around the world more than 18,000 times in 2013, underlining its position as a global connector of people and places.   Figures show the airline’s fleet travelled more than 751 million kilometres throughout the year. Taking the earth’s circumference at the equator as 40,075 kilometres, this translates into the equivalent of