Emirates launched 16 new partnerships since 2023 creating seamless ‘final mile’ journeys to extra routes and thrilling locations.
DUBAI, UAE – Up to now yr, Emirates has doubled the variety of cities it affords past its personal community, unlocking journey alternatives to just about 1,700 extra cities. This has enabled a mean of over 61,000 passengers to seamlessly join on the shared networks of Emirates and its companions each week.
By forging new partnerships and deepening present ones throughout the transport ecosystem, the airline is delivering an array of extra journey decisions alongside 31 codeshare, 118 interline and 13 rail and helicopter companies companions. Having 162 companions in over 100 international locations means an expanded community attain with extra and higher connections for travellers, seamless single ticket itineraries, enhanced baggage transfers, frequent flyer advantages, lounge entry, and different benefits to make sure a easy journey expertise at each touchpoint.
For purchasers of accomplice airways flying on Emirates, in style locations are even nearer via Emirates’ strong community over 140 locations and frictionless connectivity provided at DXB, complemented by business main experiences on the bottom and within the skies, all simply inside attain.
Within the final yr, Emirates launched 16 new partnerships which embody codeshares with Avianca and Batik Air Malaysia and the airline additionally finalised and applied interline preparations with KAM Air, Sri Lankan Airways, Condor, Flynas, Viva Aerobus, Solar Categorical, Maldivian, Siberia Airways and Kenya Airways.
From airplane to coach, Emirates prospects are actually one ticket away from quick connections to cities throughout Europe via codeshare partnerships with Trenitalia, Spanish Rail Renfe, Austrian Rail OBB and Swedish Rail SJ. The airline was additionally the primary full-service service to enter into an modern interline partnership with BLADE, an city air-mobility firm to supply Emirates prospects with helicopter flights between Good and Monaco on a single ticket.
Adnan Kazim, Deputy President and Chief Business Officer Emirates Airline stated: “Within the final yr, we’ve doubled down on our technique of deepening our world presence and increasing our footprint throughout six continents by forging new partnerships with like-minded airways, rail companions and air mobility operators to supply an enormous alternative of onwards locations, connectivity choices and seamless ‘final mile’ entry for travellers like by no means earlier than. Whereas natural development will all the time on the coronary heart of our plans, we’ll proceed to leverage the energy of our companions’ complementary networks as a part of our dedication to assist our prospects attain each nook of the globe within the easiest method doable. World-class connectivity retains economies robust and resilient, and our partnership development ambitions align with Dubai’s D33 technique to make our residence and hub probably the most related metropolis on the earth, attracting enterprise, tourism, and funding from everywhere in the globe.”
Over time, Emirates’ many partnerships have paved the way in which for the airline to kind strong networks that not solely join prospects to distinctive factors but in addition present some great benefits of schedule optimisation, seamless connectivity at DXB with entry to Terminal 3, in addition to reciprocal loyalty advantages. Its cornerstone partnership with flydubai is an distinctive instance of how joint cooperation yields smoother journeys and extra buyer advantages. Right this moment, prospects have entry to over 230 locations throughout 100 international locations, with 275 codeshare flights to select from on a mean day. Emirates prospects can e-book flights to over 90 distinctive flydubai locations and flydubai prospects can select from over 100 Emirates locations. Because of this, over 17.5 million passengers have related on the joint networks of Emirates and flydubai for the reason that partnership launched in 2017.
For leisure travellers heading to in style locations just like the Maldives, Emirates’ distinctive interline partnership with Maldivian enablescustomers to entry 16 islands past Male. Emirates’ partnership with Professional Flight Zambia offers entry to 13 factors served by the southern African airline, together with distinctive regional getaways like Decrease Zambezi Nationwide Park, a brief journey from Lusaka that provides a charming safari expertise.
The airline’s main partnerships with United, Air Canada and Qantas proceed to ship unmatched entry for its prospects to greater than 350 locations throughout North, Central and South America, Australia, and New Zealand, increasing connection alternatives, offering unrivalled reciprocity throughout loyalty programmes, in addition to different world-class buyer advantages like lounge entry.
Emirates continues to increase metropolis pairs on a single ticket and increase connectivity and selection throughout quite a lot of different strategic partnerships within the airline’s community together with:
- The Americas: Emirates prospects can entry greater than 375 cities via United, Air Canada and different accomplice airways throughout Canada, Mexico, Caribbean Islands and Central and South America. Prospects connecting on Emirates’ community onwards from Dubai can select from distinctive locations throughout the Center East, Africa, Central and South Asia.
- Europe: Travellers can entry over 380 cities via seven codeshare, 33 interline & 12 rail and air mobility companions together with Condor, ITA Airways, Air Malta, Air Baltic, Aegean Airways, TAP Portugal and Siberia Airways, along with Emirates’ rail companions throughout Germany, Spain France, Italy, Austria and Sweden that present on-ground transfers and suppleness to discover a number of cities on a single ticket.
- Asia: Emirates’ Asian community is additional bolstered via the airline’s 12 codeshare companions and 42 interline companions reaching over 500 in style cities throughout the Far East, West Asia and Indian Ocean, in addition to Center East.
- Australia: Emirates long-standing partnership with Qantas offers entry to over 85 Australian cities, whereas Qantas prospects can fly Emirates to Dubai and entry over 45 cities in Europe, the Center East and North Africa past Qantas’s present worldwide community.
- Africa: Emirates’ footprint throughout Africa expands to over 210 regional factors via 5 codeshare and 18 interline companions, providing superior connectivity and worth for purchasers with extra flight choices to smaller regional factors throughout the continent.
Emirates Skywards, the airline’s loyalty programme and Emirates SkyCargo additionally work intently with codeshare and interline companions to assist and complement community and loyalty programme frameworks that guarantee each passengers and cargo prospects reap the complete advantages of the airline’s main partnerships. On the operational aspect, Emirates Airport Companies play a significant function to make sure groups are readily available to help prospects to allow them to join seamlessly from one flight to a different and entry the airline’s Dubai and outstation devoted lounges.
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