Emirates starts flight to Kozhikode

Dubai: The United Arab Emirates' (UAE) airline Emirates launched its flights to Kozhikode in India and Guangzhou in China from here on Tuesday.
The Dubai-based airline is launching six flights a week each to the Indian and Chinese cities, it said in a statement here.
"Emirates presently operates services to Thiruvananthapuram and Cochin (Kochi)," Salem Obaidalla, Emirates' senior vice-president for commercial operations in West Asia, Indian Ocean and Africa, said in the statement.
"The launch of Emirates' flights to Kozhikode will allow international tourists to cover the length and breadth of Kerala more conveniently, by enabling them to arrive in northern Kerala and depart from the state's southern region or vice versa. The new flights will also serve Keralites living in the Gulf region and visiting home each year," he added.
A large number of the 1.5 million expatriate Indians in the UAE hail from Kerala.
Stating that Emirates has a robust presence in the Middle East, serving the region with 163 weekly flights to 12 gateways via its Dubai hub, Obaidalla said: "We have timed our flights such that they offer convenient connections to Kozhikode via Dubai."
Kozhikode is Emirates' third gateway in Kerala and its 10th in India, and the new operations will increase the airline's number of flights to India to 125 a week.
02/07/08 IANS/Times of India

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Categories: Foreign Jul 2008