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Emirates starts new service to Moscow
DUBAI - Fast-growing Emirates yesterday launched its new service to Russia - with chocolates for customers boarding in Dubai, and Russian cabin crew to greet travellers on the first departure from Moscow.
The five-a-week link to Moscow's Domodedovo airport will boost booming business links between the Russian capital and the commercial heart of the Middle East, and offer Russian customers convenient connections to Emirates' major Far East business and leisure destinations.
Yesterday senior Emirates executives and staff at Dubai International Airport were joined for photographs by Svetlana Korsak, dressed in traditional Russian costume, before the first flight took off.
It was met on arrival by Nasser Batha, Emirates' Area Manager Moscow/CIS; Jeyhun Efendi, Sales Manager; and Russian cabin crew Hanna Bui and Oxana Urmanova, who flew in advance to Moscow to greet travellers checking-in for Dubai.
Emirates' modern wide-bodied Airbus 330-200s with 18 first, 42 business and 183 economy seats, and 15 tonnes' cargo capacity, now link Dubai with the Russian capital - which becomes its 67th destination.
Flights leave Dubai on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 0830, reach Domodedovo at 1355, and return to Dubai to touch down at 2310 the same day, providing the only full-service link between the two, and encouraging the growth of trade and tourism between the UAE and Russia.
Hamad Obaidalla, Emirates' General Manager AGCC, Yemen, Iran & CIS, said: "The Russian air travel market is expanding very fast, especially first and business class, and we are well placed to compete as we will be the only airline offering a high-quality three-class product on the route.
"Domodedovo is also the ideal airport for encouraging business travel and developing trade between Dubai and Moscow, and like Dubai has the key advantage of serving the wider region around it extremely well."
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