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Emirates Skywards Introduces over 1,500 New Ways to Earn Miles

Emirates Skywards is offering its members worldwide more than a thousand ways to earn Skywards Miles while shopping at popular UK and US...

Air Arabia and Etihad Risking the Success of Joint Venture Low-cost...

Following the announcement that Air Arabia and Etihad will not delay the launch of the joint venture low-cost carrier in Q2 2020 Amber Barnes, Travel and Tourism...

Emirates – First Airline to Conduct On-site COVID-19 Tests

Emirates in coordination with Dubai Health Authority (DHA) will be introducing additional precautions. Passengers on today’s flight to Tunisia were all tested for COVID-19...

Coronavirus Impact: Emirates Suspends Most Passenger Flights, Retains Commercial

The Emirates Group’s business response to COVID-19 Emirates retains cargo operations, but temporarily suspends passenger operations by 25 March dnata significantly reduces operations, including...

UAE Suspends All Inbound, Outbound Passenger Flights, Transit of Airline Passengers...

The National Emergency Crisis and Disasters Management Authority, NCEMA, and the General Civil Aviation Authority, GCAA, have decided to suspend all inbound and outbound...

Middle East Airline Passenger Numbers to Climb 7% in 2018

Middle East passenger numbers are forecast to grow by 7% in 2018 according to the International Air Transport Association, despite a strong headwind of...

COVID-19 Puts Over Half of 2020 Passenger Revenues at Risk, Says...

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) released updated analysis showing that the COVID-19 crisis will see airline passenger revenues drop by $314 billion in...

Emirates Increases Refunds Capability

Emirates has ramped up its capability to process refunds, reaffirming its commitment to customers and travel trade partners impacted by travel disruptions caused by...

Emirates SkyCargo’s Global Network Grows to 75 Destinations

Emirates SkyCargo has expanded its weekly scheduled cargo flight operations to cover 75 destinations across six continents. Some of the destinations recently included are Colombo,...

Emirates introduces inflight mobile phones on Boeing 777-300

Emirates has again proved itself an aviation industry pioneer after becoming the first airline to introduce in-flight mobile phone services on a Boeing aircraft. Dubai's...

Emirates Airline to operate 269 flights daily from Terminal 3

With the announcement of the phased opening of Terminal Three from 14th October, the spotlight has now turned firmly on Emirates' much-anticipated move...

Dubai Airports conducts second operational trial for Terminal 3

Dubai Airports conducted on Saturday the second operational trial for Dubai International's Terminal 3. The second of a series of three trials, the exercise involved...

UAE airports to handle over 85 million passengers in 2013

With their spirits sky high about the multi-billion dollar airports expansion programme, the six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states are increasingly exploring the airport...

Dubai Airports conducts first major operational trial at Terminal 3

Dubai Airports has conducted the first major operational trial at Dubai International Airport's Terminal 3. The advanced trial follows a series of basic trials...

Termnail 3 of Dubai Airports to open on October 14

Dubai Airports will start a phased transition of operations to Dubai International's new Terminal 3 from October 14, 2008. The 'soft' opening will be implemented...

Emirates Airline may order 30 Boeings 777

According reports in New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, Boeing obtained an order for up to 30 of its wide-body 777...

Situation in Bangkok Calm, according Tai Airways

As of this morning, the situation is calm in Bangkok. A state of emergency was declared by the Thai Government on 7th April...

Statement from Airbus on Airblue ED 202 accident in Pakistan

Airbus regrets to confirm that an Airbus A321 operated by airblue was involved in an accident shortly after 9.45 am local time....