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Emirates to Offer More Flights to Paris and Venice
Posted 14/12/2011
Emirates Airline is to introduce a second daily flight between Dubai International and Venice Marco Polo Airport next year. The additional rotation will be operated by an Airbus A340-300 and will be introduced from the start of the Northern Summer schedules on March 25, 2012. The airline’s existing flight on the route is also operated using A340-300 equipment.
The Dubai-based carrier also serves Milan Malpensa and Rome Fiumicino in Italy with double daily services already being offered to both destinations. An estimated 337,000 O&D passengers travelled between Dubai International and Italy in the past year, up 19.0 per cent on the previous 12 month period. As the sole carrier providing direct flights, Emirates is unsurprisingly the dominant carrier with its five daily flights giving it a 75.3 per cent share of the traffic.
Earlier this month the carrier introduced the A380 onto the Rome route. “Operating the A380 out of Rome allows passengers in Italy to enjoy the Emirates’ superjumbo experience all the way to key markets such as Australia, China and Thailand, via our much-admired hub in Dubai, while boosting tourism into Italy,” said Salem Obaidalla, Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Europe & Russian Federation, Emirates Airline.
The point-to-point demand between Dubai International and Venice Marco Polo in the past year was estimated to be around 60,000 O&D passengers, with Emirates holding an 86 per cent share. However, the wider market for Emirates beyond its Dubai hub is likely to treble or quadruple this figure to between 150,000 and 200,000 passengers per year on the route.
Emirates started flights to Italy in 1992 and the current 35 weekly frequencies contribute to a vibrant US$ 4.6 billion trade relationship between Italy and the UAE, assisted by Emirates SkyCargo ferrying commodities in and out of Italy through Dubai and beyond. The Italian market is not the sole European country to see more frequencies from Emirates during 2012 though.
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