Watch: Unseen video of Emirates' first flight to Karachi

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Watch: Unseen video of Emirates first flight to Karachi

Dubai - The two-minute-long video shows the old Emirates logo, the Emirates counter and the booklet ticket.

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Published: Tue 25 Oct 2016, 7:17 PM

Last updated: Tue 25 Oct 2016, 10:21 PM

As Dubai-based Emirates airline completes 31 years of operations, Dubai Media Office has released a video of the airline's first ever flight -- from Dubai to Karachi, on October 25, 1985.

The two-minute-long video shows the old Emirates logo, the Emirates counter and the booklet ticket.

Two other flights took off on that historic first day, one headed for Mumbai, and one for New Delhi.
Also read: Emirates - flying high for 31 years

In the cockpit of the Mumbai-bound flight, EK 500, was Pakistani national Ejaz Ul Haq. "The atmosphere was a mixture of festive and professional," Haq recalled. "The cabin crew were new and pretty well-trained, and it was time to put that training into effect. We took off right on time, and we were given a pretty good reception in Bombay (as Mumbai used to be called then)."

In the year after its 1985 inaugural flights, the airline had 200 employees and operated a fleet of three aircraft, flying 262,000 passengers to seven destinations: Karachi, New Delhi, Bombay, Amman, Colombo, Cairo and Dhaka.
With inputs from Bernd Debusmann Jr.



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