Dubai: Dubai-based Emirates Airlines is keen to operate more flights to India. The airline is eagerly hoping to get to do so after the air services talks between India and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
“India is a huge market for Emirates, but the seats and number of cities to which we are allowed to operate are constrained (at the moment),” President Tim Clark said while launching a new concourse dedicated to the superjumbo aircraft, Airbus A380, at the Dubai Airport on Sunday.
He said that Emirates was keen on at least doubling the number of seats it could offer in the country and add another five to six cities, which could take the number of seats the airlines offers to over one lakh a week from about 54,200 now and the number of cities in which it is present to 16 from 10 currently. Clark hoped that if the bilateral talks were concluded successfully, it would not be only one airline from the Gulf which would stand to benefit.
12/02/13 Aesha Datta/Business Line
