Emirates business booms

Dubai-based Emirates said that it has carried over 10m passengers on nearly 35,000 flights to 130 destinations this summer.

It increased operations on several routes, reinstating daily services to Stansted, and also put on extra flights to 33 cities on popular routes across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as holiday destinations including Seychelles, Maldives, Mexico and Miami.

In June, Emirates added Tel Aviv to its global network and in July it added a third daily flight to Gatwick to serve travellers affected by capacity cuts at Heathrow. The airline also deployed its superjumbo A380, to serve high customer demand at over 30 cities around its network.

The carrier re-opened and was operating 32 signature Emirates lounges, including 25 dedicated lounges at major airports across its network and it reinstated its complimentary chauffeur drive airport transfers for First and Business Class customers in nearly all the cities it serves.

Emirates said that it is currently operating at 74% of its pre-pandemic capacity and plans to increase that to 80% by the end of the year.

Emirates’ home base, Dubai International (DXB), meanwhile reported that its half yearly traffic reached 27.9m passengers, about 1.2m shy of the airport’s total traffic last year.

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