Smart E-gates at Dubai Airport The General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) will be installing 40 Smart e-Gates across Dubai Airport terminals to ease passenger entry and exit. The system, equipped with retinal scan using a high-accuracy camera, will eliminate the need for the eye scan and e-Gate card currently issued by the [...]
The Dubai Taxi Corporation (DTC) and Roads &Transport Authority (RTA) has introduced a new luxury taxi service in Dubai aimed at serving customers better. The fleet includes 20 high-end vehicles, all painted black, and driven by hand-picked drivers with excellent track records. Commuters will be offered high quality services, with privacy being one of the [...]
Dubai-based Emirates Airline is expanding its presence in the United States by adding a second daily A380 flight to New York’s JFK International Airport. Starting 1st January, Emirates will begin offering almost 1,000 additional seats in both directions on flights between Dubai and New York on the modern A380 aircraft. The airline will replace the [...]
Middle Eastern carrier Emirates is to deploy the Airbus A380 on services to Moscow Domodedovo later this year. It will operate the 517-seat aircraft on one of its two daily rotations from Dubai beginning on 1st December. Domodedovo airport’s operator, East Line Group, says the A380 will replace the Boeing 777-300ER on the route. “Since [...]
Emirates has further extended its European reach by starting its first daily non-stop service from Dubai to Lisbon.This comes just 6 days after launching flights from Dubai to Barcelona in Spain. Emirates has become the only carrier in the Middle East operating into Portugal with a daily non-stop service, doing more than just transporting passengers [...]
Passport Control Queues at Dubai Airport Lenghty Dubai Airport passport control queues could soon be a thing of the past thanks to a new high-tech system which is under consideration by the organisation that runs Dubai International Airport. An official for Dubai Airport has revealed that one of the systems would improve the process of [...]
Info Zones at Dubai Airport New state of the art high-tech ‘information zones’ at Dubai International Airport have now been introduced. The dedicated zones, which have been designed by local boutique Almax Design, have been introduced to replace traditional information desks at Dubai airport. HH Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman of Dubai Airports [...]
Dubai International Airport has begun 2012 on a strong note with record monthly passenger traffic of over 4.85 million in January. Passenger traffic in January reached 4.852 million passengers, surpassing the previous record of 4,724,109 of July 2011, and a 14% increase compared to 4.254 million recorded in January 2011. The 14% upsurge is the [...]
Dubai to Newcastle Emirates is set to add more than 2,000 seats a week to and from Dubai to Newcastle when it introduces a larger aircraft on its daily flight from Newcastle to Dubai from 1st September. A 428-seat Boeing 777-300ER, the longest aircraft to ever operate from Newcastle Airport will replace a 278-seat Airbus [...]
Concourse 3 Dubai International Airport CEO Paul Griffiths has announced on the Dubai-based Business Breakfast radio programme that Dubai Airport’s Concourse 3 Terminal is targeting a January 2013 opening. The world’s first dedicated facility for A380′s will be home to Emirates’ growing fleet of superjumbos and feature dedicated first and business class lounges. The expansion [...]
Emirates and Alaska Airlines Partnership Emirates and Alaska Airlines have announced the launch of a new frequent flier partnership that will offer travelers the opportunity to accrue Alaska Airlines Mileage Plan miles when they fly to any of Emirates’ 118 destinations worldwide, including points across Africa, India and the Middle East. Emirates Skywards members can [...]
Smart E-gates at Dubai Airport The General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs (GDRFA) will be installing 40 Smart e-Gates across Dubai Airport terminals to ease passenger entry and exit. The system, equipped with retinal scan using a high-accuracy camera, will eliminate the need for the eye scan and e-Gate card currently issued by the [...]
The Dubai Taxi Corporation (DTC) and Roads &Transport Authority (RTA) has introduced a new luxury taxi service in Dubai aimed at serving customers better. The fleet includes 20 high-end vehicles, all painted black, and driven by hand-picked drivers with excellent track records. Commuters will be offered high quality services, with privacy being one of the [...]
