IndiGo, India’s preferred carrier, has announced the operation of new daily flights between Abu Dhabi-Hyderabad, Chennai-Muscat, and Abu Dhabi-Chennai, effective March 26, 2023. Operations of these flights will provide more options to customers planning vacations and business trips to and from the Middle East.

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The new connection to Abu Dhabi will improve access to tourist attractions such as the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque, Ferrari World, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Yas Island, and others. Furthermore, Abu Dhabi’s cutting-edge architecture and stunning sea views are a sight to behold. Muscat is another Middle Eastern city well-known for its tourist attractions and business opportunities. Muscat’s top tourist attractions include Mutrah Corniche, Grand Mosque Muscat, Royal Opera House Muscat, Yiti Beach, and Bait Al Zubair. Besides that, trade, petroleum, liquefied natural gas, and porting dominate Muscat’s economy. Moreover, Muscat is well-known for its first-grade medical facilities and medical institutions, making it a top destination for medical students.

These flights are designed to cater to business and leisure travellers who are constantly on the lookout for new and affordable flying options to access destinations which help in building businesses and are known
for their tourist attractions. Customers who wish to plan their travel can book tickets via official website. The introduction of these flights will further bolster the airline’s international connectivity.

The Passenger Choice Award is the highest honour an airline can win in recognition of its best-in-class improvements in Wi-Fi, Cabin Service, Entertainment, Food & Beverage, and Seat Comfort. The International Flight Services Association and Best Food & Beverage Awards are jointly given out.

According Apex Airline Ratings some of the airlines has been honored as the passenger choice airline award winners 2022.

Global Passenger Choice Awards®

• Best Seat Comfort: Qatar Airways
• Best Cabin Service: Eva Air
• Best Food & Beverage: Qatar Airways
• Best Entertainment: Emirates
• Best Wi-Fi: Delta Air Lines

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North America

• Best Major Airline in North America: Alaska Airlines
• Best Regional Airline in North America: JSX
• Best Low-Cost Carrier in North America: Southwest Airlines
• Best Cabin Service: Hawaiian
• Best Wi-Fi: JetBlue
• Best Seat Comfort: Hawaiian
• Best Food & Beverage: JetBlue
• Best Entertainment: United Airlines

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South America

• Best Overall Airline: Azul
• Best Entertainment: Avianca
• Best Cabin Service: Avianca
• Best Wi-Fi: GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes
• Best Food & Beverage: LATAM
• Best Seat Comfort: LATAM

 

Europe

• Best Overall Airline: Virgin Atlantic
• Best Entertainment: Air France
• Best Cabin Service: SWISS
• Best Wi-Fi: Finnair
• Best Food & Beverage: Turkish Airlines
• Best Seat Comfort: Turkish Airlines

Middle East

• Best Overall Airline: Qatar Airways
• Best Entertainment: Etihad Airways
• Best Cabin Service: Middle East Airlines
• Best Wi-Fi: Emirates
• Best Food & Beverage: Emirates
• Best Seat Comfort: Oman Air

 

Five Australian women who were allegedly forced to undergo “vaginal exams” under pressure in the tiny Gulf island nation have chosen to sue Qatar Airways and the Qatari government. According to reports, the event happened at the airport in Doha two years ago.

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The women are now suing Qatar Airways and the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority for unlawful physical contact, mental trauma, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder. The Government of Qatar owns Qatar Airways, according to a Huffington Post investigation.

The incident happened in October 2020 as the female complainants were travelling to Sydney on a Qatar Airways flight. The complainants claim that when a baby was discovered abandoned in the airport bathroom, they were made to off the aircraft and subjected to invasive gynecological tests.

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A 33-year-old plaintiff, a nurse, told the New York Times that the encounter fundamentally altered her as a person and that she hasn’t traveled since. It appears they are not sorry for the incident and have simply moved on, while we are still scarred by what happened that day, the woman stated.

Qatari authorities apologized for the incident following the controversy. Authorities also detained the airport official who had directed the above “searches.” Finally, he was taken into custody and handed a term with suspension.

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Emirates, the world’s largest operator of Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s, is looking for First Officers who fulfil the airline’s high safety, technical, and customer service criteria. Successful individuals can expect to reach new professional heights with Emirates.

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1.The world’s youngest airline fleet.

Emirates currently employs wide-body aircraft. It is the world’s largest operator of Airbus A380s and Boeing 777s, and the only airline firm in the world that employs A380 full-service aircraft. It also entails piloting one of the world’s youngest and most modern fleets, which today includes 265 Airbus and Boeing planes.

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2.What does it mean to be an Emirates airline pilot?

Enjoy a fantastic lifestyle in vibrant Dubai with our entire wide-body fleet and ever-expanding worldwide route network. There are 265 Airbus and Boeing planes. With Emirates’ ongoing fleet renewal efforts, pilots will also be flying Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner’s, Boeing 777-Xs, and Airbus A350-900s in the future years.

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3.Pilots can fly to 140 different destinations.

Emirates has the world’s largest network, based in Dubai but connecting the majority of the world’s busiest networks. A future with Emirates entails flying to different locations within the airline’s network, which spans six continents and 140 cities.

It also means flying one of the world’s youngest and most modern fleet, now numbering 265 Airbus and Boeing aircraft. With Emirates’ continuous investments in renewing its fleet, the airline’s pilots will also be flying Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners, Boeing 777-Xs and Airbus A350-900s in the coming years.

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4.How does Emirates train its pilots?

Emirates’ pilots complete thorough, evidence-based training programmes in-house with highly trained instructors in specially developed venues, thanks to the company’s cutting-edge infrastructure for pilot training and type rates. Ten full-flight simulators for Boeing 777s and Airbus 380s are housed in the airline’s cutting-edge training center. The airline’s expansion provides several prospects for natural professional advancement – first officers can slowly advance to become captains, technical pilots, standards’ captains, examiners, and instructors.

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5.What it’s like to live in Dubai as an Emirates pilot.

Emirates provides a variety of perks designed to help pilots and their families live a meaningful lifestyle, including a competitive tax-free pay, significant housing and education allowances, and exceptional medical and dental coverage. Employees receive discounted freight and travel perks for the entire family, including tickets for guests, across the airline’s global network. Furthermore, the Emirates Platinum card provides a variety of benefits and discounts at hundreds of retail and hospitality shops both locally and abroad.

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6.Pilots have the option of selecting their preferred flight and destination.

On Emirates’ innovative rostering system, pilots can bid for preferred flights and destinations to ensure they have the opportunity to spend quality time with their loved ones on special occasions. On a typical workday, Emirates’ flight deck crew is escorted to and from home, as well as through the airline’s headquarters’ fast-track check-in facilities.

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7.Emirates is a mini-world airline with over 160 nationalities.

Flight and cabin staff from more than 160 countries enjoy a collaborative relationship that reflects the multicultural environment of Emirates’ hub Dubai. The city’s reputation as a safe, secure, energetic, and technologically advanced city is well known. Major yearly athletic events, a diverse range of lifestyle activities, first-rate hospitality and cuisine, breathtaking sites, international schools and hospitals, and world-class infrastructure all contribute to Dubai’s status as a destination for millions of expats.

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8.What are the requirements for becoming an Emirates Pilot?

Candidates for the post of First Officer must have experience flying multi-engine, multi-crew aircraft, a valid ICAO Airline Pilot License, and a minimum of 2,000 flying hours on aircraft with a maximum take-off weight of 20 tonnes.

Interested individuals should carefully review the eligibility requirements before applying online. here: https://www.emiratesgroupcareers.com/pilots/

In a gesture of seeming generosity towards Israel ahead of the arrival of US President Joe Biden, Saudi Arabia declared on Friday that it was relaxing restrictions on “all carriers” accessing its airspace. The US president hailed Riyadh’s “historic” decision as the most recent act of accommodation toward the Jewish state, which Riyadh continued to refuse despite Israel’s intensive efforts to establish relations with Arab nations.

According to a statement posted on Twitter, the civil aviation authority “announces the decision to open the Kingdom’s airspace for all air carriers that meet the authority’s conditions for overflying.” Prior to Biden’s arrival in Israel on Wednesday, Washington had made suggestions that additional Arab countries might take action to advance relations with Israel, causing rumors about whether Riyadh would budge from its steadfast stance of delaying the establishment of formal bilateral ties until the conflict with the Palestinians is resolved. The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Morocco all established diplomatic connections with Israel in 2020 as part of the US-mediated Abraham Accords, and the monarchy made no protests at the time.

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Yet analysts have stressed that any immediate gains are likely to be incremental and that Riyadh will probably not agree to formal ties — not during Biden’s visit or while King Salman, 86, still reigns. Biden will travel to the Saudi city of Jeddah on the Red Sea coast Friday afternoon, despite a previous vow to treat the kingdom as a “pariah” over the 2018 murder and dismemberment of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

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Shortly after the Abraham Accords were announced in 2020, Saudi Arabia declared that UAE planes to “all countries” could overfly the country and permitted an Israeli plane to fly over while travelling to Abu Dhabi.
Following Friday’s announcement, aeroplanes flying to and from Israel are no longer subject to overflight restrictions.

Israel has pushed for the right to use overflights to reduce connections to Asian destinations. Additionally, authorities seek to allow direct travel to Saudi Arabia for Muslim pilgrims from Israel. Currently, they must spend money on stopovers in foreign nations. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, has brought about “a profound change in Saudi thought” regarding Israel, according to Dan Shapiro, a former ambassador to Washington who Biden is scheduled to meet with on Friday.

constantly and collectively to protect our flight operations and ensure minimal customer disturbance, especially during high travel months

It is consequently deeply sad that LHR offered us 36 hours to comply with capacity cuts last evening, a figure that appears to have been snatched from thin air. Their letters not only specified which planes we should reject paying customers, but also threatened legal action if we did not comply.

These requests are completely ridiculous and unacceptable, and we reject them.

Our ground handling and catering operations at London Heathrow Airport (LHR) are managed by dnata. Emirates Group – are well prepared and competent of handling our flights. As a result, the crux of the problem is with the airport operator’s central services and systems.

Emirates is an important and consistent operator at LHR, having reintroduced six daily A380 flights beginning in October 2021. Our operating requirements cannot be a surprise to the airport after 10 months of consistently high seat loads.

They now want to force Emirates to reject tickets to tens of thousands of passengers who have paid for and booked months in advance their long-awaited package holidays or flights to see their loved ones. And this at the peak season with the forthcoming UK holidays, when many people are keen to travel following two years of pandemic restrictions.

Emirates is committed to doing the right thing for our customers. However, with all flights running full for the next few weeks, including at other London airports and on other airlines, re-booking the large number of possibly impacted passengers is unfeasible. To complicate matters further, 70% of our LHR customers are travelling beyond Dubai to see loved ones in far-flung destinations, and it will be tough to locate them new onward connections at short notice.

It is also unrealistic to move some of our passenger operations to other UK airports at such short notice. It is not as straightforward as locating a parking spot at a mall to ensure ground readiness for a widebody long-haul aircraft with 500 passengers on board.

The final truth is that the LHR management team is unconcerned about travellers and airline customers. All of the signs pointed to a robust travel comeback, and Emirates has been loud about it for months. We planned ahead of time to be ready to service customers and meet travel demand, including rehiring and training 1,000 A380 pilots in the previous year.

LHR decided not to act, plan, or invest. Faced with a “airmageddon” situation as a result of government incompetence and inaction, they are shifting the entire weight – of costs and the hurry to sort out the issue – to airlines and passengers.

The decisions of the London Heathrow management team should be scrutinised by the airport’s shareholders.

Given the enormous value that the aviation community generates for the UK economy and communities, we applaud the action taken by the UK Department for Transport and Civil Aviation Authority to request information from LHR on their response plans, system resilience, and the seemingly arbitrary cap of 100,000 daily passengers. Given that LHR handled 80.9 million passengers in 2019, or a daily average of 219,000, the cap represents a more than 50% reduction at a time when LHR claims to have 70% of ground handling resources in place.

Emirates intends to continue operating to and from LHR as usual till further notice.

Emirates plans to fly half of its A380 fleet by the winter: Due to an anticipated rise in international travel as countries ease coronavirus restrictions and reopen borders, Emirates expects to run at about 70% of its usual capacity this winter.

Since flights were grounded in March 2020, Emirates, the world’s largest long-haul airline before the pandemic, has been steadily rebuilding its network of 157 passenger destinations.

It currently serves 120 destinations, but capacity is still reduced due to the airline’s 97 Airbus A380 superjumbos being parked.

“We already have a plan to get back to almost 70% of our capacity to be recovered by winter 2021,” Emirates Chief Commercial Officer Adnan Kazim told reporters on Tuesday.

He didn’t say what the airline’s actual operating capacity was, but he did say that it had a long way to go to hit 70 percent.

Emirates has primarily operated flights with its 145 Boeing 777s, but due to low passenger demand worldwide, these planes have mostly carried freight.

During the summer, the airline plans to operate about 40 to 50 Airbus A380s, currently operating 20 A380s. Emirates has 117 A380s in its fleet.

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The ability to restore capacity is largely contingent on countries loosening coronavirus restrictions and allowing international travel. Dubai’s Emirates lacks a domestic market that can mitigate the effects of international border closures.

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