Emirates NZ-Venice Service Enhanced

14 December 2011

Emirates NZ-Venice Service Enhanced

Emirates’ flights to Venice will go double daily from March 25 next year. The airline will then offer direct connections in both directions between New Zealand and Venice through Dubai.

A 267-seat Airbus A340-300 will operate the additional frequency in a three class configuration: First, Business and Economy.

News of the extra daily flight comes just two weeks after Emirates made a further major commitment to Italy by placing a 489-seat Airbus A380 superjumbo on one of its twice daily Rome flights. This enables passengers on the Rome route to travel all the way from New Zealand to Italy on the popular A380.

After starting flights to Italy in 1992, Emirates now operates 35 flights per week to Venice, Rome and Milan.

“Since launching our third gateway into Italy four years ago, Venice has gone from strength to strength, both on the passenger and cargo side,” said Salem Obaidalla, Emirates’ Senior Vice President, Europe and Russian Federation. “There is clearly a need for another daily service and we will help to satisfy that demand,” added Mr Obaidalla.

Venice is one of the world’s best known tourist destinations and the area surrounding the city in Italy’s north east is an important commercial region, bustling with small and medium sized companies. The Emirates’ service out of Venice also provides a useful alternative for travellers in neighbouring Slovenia.

Emirates has a special treat for First Class and Business Class passengers in Venice as the only airline in the world to offer a water limousine airport transfer service, whisking passengers through the Venetian Lagoon.

The second daily flight, EK 137, will leave Dubai at 3.45pm and arrive in Venice at 8pm. The return flight, EK 138, will leave Venice Marco Polo Airport at 9.50pm, landing in Dubai at 5.35am the next day, connecting with all four daily Emirates flights to New Zealand.

With a fleet of 165 aircraft, including 19 double-decker A380s, Emirates flies to 116 destinations in 68 countries across six continents.

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