Emirates and FlyDubai Celebrate Five Years of Partnership
This
month marks five years since Emirates and flydubai activated their extensive
partnership and joined forces to offer customers unrivaled travel options to
every corner of the globe. They’ve certainly delivered on their promise. The
carriers’ joint route network has significantly expanded, enabling more than 11
million customers to connect on over 250,000 flights and benefit from seamless
travel since the partnership launched in 2017.
The innovative partnership
goes beyond the standard codesharing model and today includes integrated
network collaboration, schedule optimization, seamless connectivity at Dubai
International airport (DXB) between Terminals 2 and 3, baggage transfers on a
single itinerary, as well as reciprocal loyalty benefits under the joint
loyalty program, Emirates Skywards.
Here’s five key highlights
of Emirates and flydubai’s partnership and the benefits it offers to customers:
Joint
network offers unrivalled choice: Today, customers have access to 215
destinations across 98 countries, with over 250 codeshare flights to choose
from on an average day. Emirates customers can book flights to over 80 unique
flydubai destinations and flydubai customers can choose from over 99 Emirates
destinations. Popular customer favorites, whether traveling for business or leisure
include: Kathmandu, Kuwait, the Maldives, Tel Aviv, and Zanzibar.
Joint
loyalty program maximising customer rewards: More than 8.5 million members have been able
to enjoy joint Emirates and flydubai frequent flyer program benefits, earning
150 billion Skywards Miles in the last five years through the partnership.
Seamless
connectivity at DXB: Customers
enjoy seamless check-in, efficient baggage transfers, passenger access to
Emirates’ lounges at Terminal 3 and the flydubai lounge at Terminal 2, reduced connection
times as both airlines expand their flight schedules, and convenient
connections to 33 flydubai destinations operated from Emirates Terminal 3 in
DXB.
Continued
network growth: New
travel opportunities are being created for the 270,000 passengers who connect
between both airlines each month as Emirates and flydubai continue to add more
flights to their schedules. This offers customers more flexibility with
multiple daily flight departures to destinations like Bahrain, Kuwait, Karachi,
the Maldives, key cities in Saudi Arabia and Tel Aviv. Both airlines also
continue to expand their networks, with Emirates recently reinstating flights
to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. In 2022, flydubai’s network has grown
bigger than ever, launching flights to Al Ula, Namangan, Osh, Pisa and
Samarkand, to name a few. flydubai has also announced services to Gan in the
Maldives, Cagliari and Milan-Bergamo in Italy, Corfu in Greece and Krabi and
Pattaya in Thailand from 2023 as well as the resumption of flights to Abha,
Ha’il, Hofuf and Tabuk in Saudi Arabia.
Continued
investment in enhancing the customer experience:
Emirates will retrofit 120 aircraft with Premium Economy seats starting this
month as part of a $2 billion investment which also includes elevated dining
options and more sustainable choices. flydubai has debuted a new Business Class
recliner seat offering customers more comfort on its short and medium haul
flights. flydubai has grown its fleet to 70 Boeing 737 aircraft and will
retrofit a number of its existing aircraft, as well as equip its future
aircraft, with its new Business Class seats.
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