It launched and resumed flights to more than 10 markets last year

Emirates Airlines: 15 billion dirhams to renew the fleet and purchase aircraft during 2022

Emirates Airlines launched a program to modernize the interior designs of more than 120 aircraft.

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Emirates Airlines said that it continued to rebuild and expand its global network and intensify its global operations, with the announcement of restoring services to more than 10 destinations during the past year, noting that it announced investments worth about 15 billion dirhams, as part of a huge program to modernize interior designs. For more than 120 aircraft, the purchase of five new freighters, as well as investments to equip its fleet with new inflight entertainment systems.

In a report yesterday on its performance indicators during 2022, the airline stated that the cost of the program, which includes modernizing the interior designs of more than 120 aircraft, in addition to implementing improvements to other services in all cabins, amounts to about two billion US dollars (more than 7.34 billion US dollars). dirhams), indicating that this investment includes various sectors, including a comprehensive renovation of the interior designs of the fleet aircraft, as it will be equipped with new or reupholstered seats, new facades, floors and other features in all cabins.

When the modernization program is completed, the Emirates fleet will include a total of 120 aircraft equipped with Premium Economy Class cabins.

She indicated that, last November, she placed an order to purchase five new Boeing 777 freighter aircraft, and she will receive two in 2024, and the remaining three in 2025. The new order, valued at more than $1.7 billion (more than $6.2 billion), was raised. billion dirhams), total Emirates orders, to 200 wide-body aircraft.

And last July, Emirates Flight Catering, one of the largest aviation catering providers in the world, and affiliated with the Emirates Group, announced the opening of the largest vertical farm based on hydroponics in the world, which is the "Your Garden" farm, which was established in Dubai with an investment of $ 40 million ( about 147 million dirhams).

The “carrier” stated that it had announced the selection of the new “Thales AVANT Up” air entertainment system to equip its fleet of “Airbus A350” aircraft, which is scheduled to begin receiving in 2024, as it will invest more than 350 million US dollars (about 1.28 billion dirhams) to equip 50 A350 aircraft with next generation inflight entertainment systems.

Emirates Airlines said that it had launched and resumed flights to more than 10 destinations and markets during the past year, in the framework of continuing to rebuild and expand its global network and intensify its global operations, noting that last January it resumed passenger transportation between Dubai and five African countries: Addis Ababa. (Ethiopia), Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Nairobi (Kenya), Harare (Zimbabwe), in addition to the three Emirates Airlines gates in South Africa, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban.

And she added that, last February, she resumed operating her flights to Casablanca, in addition to a new daily service to Tel Aviv in June, and announced the restoration of services to Bali and “London Stansted” destinations, in April.

During November, the “carrier” resumed operating its flights to “Rio de Janeiro” and “Buenos Aires”, which had been suspended since the spread of the “Covid-19” pandemic, and last December it resumed operating one of the longest flights in the world, and a plane landed. The Emirates A380 at Auckland Airport.

And "Emirates Airlines" indicated that, to expand communication options for travelers, it has concluded several "code-share" and "Interline agreements" with 12 airlines, which are: (Airlink, Aegean, ETA Airlines, Air Baltic, Air Canada, Bamboo Airways, Batik Air, Finnair, Royal Air Maroc, Sky Express, Sun Country Airlines, and United Airlines).

And she indicated that with the return of air travel to a strong recovery, Emirates Airlines announced, last year, the launch of an employment campaign in 30 cities, including Cairo and Algiers, Tunisia, Bahrain, Lebanon and dozens of European cities, and also announced the provision of opportunities for young ambitious citizens. To develop promising jobs in various fields within the aviation industry through scholarship programs designed with the aim of building the future generation of skilled and successful Emiratis in this vital sector.

The "tanker" said that it had concluded six months of distinguished participation in "Expo 2020 Dubai", and had impressed hundreds of thousands of visitors to its unique pavilion at the exhibition.

With the curtain falling on one of the most prominent sessions of the World Expo, Emirates Airlines is proud of the unique experiences it provided to visitors to its pavilion over a period of 180 days that made them live the atmosphere of the future of commercial aviation in 2071.

She explained that her pavilion at the Expo 2020 site will be reallocated to become a center for innovation, and to attract talents from all over the world to realize future-focused airline projects, including those related to metaverses, non-fungible symbols and the 3D Web.

It stated that it was ranked among the top 100 international companies on the “Global Reputation” index for the year 2022 from the “Global 100” platform, and that “Emirates Airlines” is the only company from the Middle East and North Africa region that occupied a place in this global ranking.

5 years of partnership with "flydubai"

Last November, Emirates Airlines said that it and Flydubai celebrated five years since the start of their extensive partnership and unified efforts to offer unparalleled travel options to customers around the world.

The network of shared routes of the two airlines has expanded significantly, allowing more than 11 million customers to continue their travel seamlessly on more than 250,000 flights since the launch of the partnership in 2017.

New hospitality strategy

Emirates Airlines said that it launched last May a new hospitality strategy that will elevate the customer experiences provided by its teams on the ground and in the air to new heights.

The program is one of the largest initiatives of the airline ever, targeting people, processes and products, as it includes all teams that serve customers on the front lines, in addition to the various departments and support departments. 

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