Emirates

The airline will fly to 12 US destinations by late July—the same number as before the pandemic—with capacity to and from the country around 60% of 2019 levels.

Starting June 2, Italy will waive its mandatory 10-day quarantine rule.

The carrier has scheduled two Airbus A380 flights to Honolulu in August.

Starting June 2, Italy will waive its mandatory 10-day COVID-19 quarantine rule

The partnership means Emirates customers can travel on codeshare flights from DXB to over 56 flydubai destinations, while flydubai passengers can access over 82 Emirates destinations.

The partnership between the two government-owned carriers means Emirates customers can travel on codeshare flights from Dubai to over 56 flydubai destinations, while flydubai passengers can access over 82 Emirates destinations.

Emirates is resuming its fifth freedom Barcelona-Mexico City route in July as Aeromexico also prepares to reinstate flights between the destinations.

Emirates Group is entering into talks with the government of Dubai about further financing options to shore up liquidity in case the recovery of air travel continues to be much slower than expected.

Routes profiles Emirates, the Dubai-based carrier and Routes Reconnected attendee.

Two new destinations in Turkey are joining the LCC’s route map.

A fifth freedom route from Milan to New York, as well as flights between Dubai and Orlando, are set to restart in June.

Dubai-based Emirates is resuming its fifth-freedom service between Milan Malpensa (MXP) and New York (JFK) starting June 1.

The airline is restoring Tasmania to its network after a 23-year absence. The route comes as New Zealand’s government has announced the extension of an air connectivity scheme.

Given the massive financial losses at many European hubs as a result of COVID-19, Vienna Airport (VIE) got off relatively lightly in announcing a loss of €76 million ($90 million) for 2020.

Emirates and TAP Air Portugal have signed a MOU to increase the scope of their current codeshare partnership.

The agreement comes as TAP 'looks at potential expansion opportunities' in the United Arab Emirates.

The pass could be the first step to 'normalized' air travel.

The airline is restoring one its longest fifth freedom routes.

Emirates Airline president Tim Clark expects the recovery of air travel to be delayed beyond the upcoming summer season and foresees a substantial return of demand only in the 2021 fourth quarter.

Emirates Airline passengers using the carrier’s Dubai International (DXB) hub will increasingly not need to physically interact with airline staff as they arrive for flights.

Several elements of Dubai’s aviation infrastructure have combined to speed up the distribution via the Gulf emirate of COVID-19 vaccines—particularly to poorer countries.

Gulf carriers Emirates Airline and Qatar Airways aim to reroute more passengers from Africa via their respective hubs in Dubai (DXB) and Doha (DOH) once the COVID-19 pandemic eases.

Atlanta will return to the Qatar Airways network in June as part of an expansion of services to the U.S.

Additional international services are returning to the Gulf carriers’ route maps.

UAE carriers Emirates Airline and Etihad Airways will become two of the first airlines globally to trial the IATA Travel Pass, which aims to help passengers navigate changing government requirements for traveling during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.