Emirates to fly daily to Madinah

Emirates will increase services to Al Madinah Al Munawarah to seven flights per week from October 31, 2010 underscoring the important economic and cultural ties between the UAE and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The airline has 25 flights per week operating through its four gateways. The new services will bring the number to 28 flights per week as well as increasing additional capacity to the Kingdom by 15 per cent.

"Saudi Arabia is an important market for Emirates and our new daily service to Al Medinah al Munawarah is key to our continued growth there. In the past two years we have increased operations to the Kingdom from 17 to 25 weekly flights and we will continue to work closely with the Saudi Authorities to implement additional services," said Ahmed Khoory, Emirates' Senior Vice President Commercial Operations, Gulf, Middle East and Iran.
Emirates' first flight to Al Medinah al Munawarah landed on July 2, 2010. The service remains on a temporary schedule until March 26, 2011.

From October 31 the seven weekly flights to Al Medinah al Munawarah will depart Dubai each day at 0115 hours and will arrive in Al Medinah al Munawarah at 0315 hours. On the return journey the flight will depart Al Medinah al Munawarrah at 0445 hours, arriving in Dubai at 0815 hours. Emirates' currently has four scheduled flights to the city departing on a Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The service is operated by an Airbus A330-200 aircraft, offering 12 seats in First class, 42 seats in Business Class and 183 seats in Economy.

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