Solidifying Dubai’s place as a serious maritime tourism hub, Emirates and AIDA Cruises have renewed their partnership for an additional two seasons.
The renewed partnership was signed on the sidelines of the primary day of ITB Berlin and is according to Dubai’s efforts to important develop its cruise capability. Dubai continues to draw the most important gamers within the trade by providing a seamlessly built-in maritime hub, with state-of-the-art dealing with services supported with unrivalled air connectivity.
Emirates will discover a lot of alternatives with AIDA Cruises for joint advertising, operational alignment and strategic planning round flight schedules from throughout its community, along with enhanced transportation options between Dubai Worldwide Airport and Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal.
The partnership will proceed to deal with sharing related knowledge and insights to enhance service supply, offering devoted help groups for cruise passengers, and facilitating a easy check-in course of at Dubai Harbour Cruise Terminal. The airline may also dedicate capability for the subsequent two seasons to make sure continued momentum to fulfill the demand for cruise packages to Dubai.
The MoU was signed by Adnan Kazim, Deputy President and Chief Business Officer, Emirates Airline; and Felix Eichhorn, President of AIDA Cruises.
Adnan Kazim commented on the renewed partnership: “We’re pleased with AIDA Cruises’ long-standing dedication to Dubai, once they have been one of many first cruise liners to dwelling port in 2006. We’re readying the enterprise for an additional sturdy cruise season in Dubai, and thru the help of companions like AIDA Cruises anchoring in our dwelling metropolis and hub, we’ll proceed to strengthen Dubai’s place as a pretty gateway for winter cruising.”
“The Arabian Gulf is one in every of our hottest winter locations as a consequence of its average flight occasions, nice summer season temperatures and lots of hours of sunshine. Mixed with the brand new state-of-the-art terminals at Dubai Harbour inside simple attain of the town’s points of interest and wonderful airport connectivity, our cooperation with Emirates will additional improve the attractiveness of this vacation spot for our visitors with tailored flight choices,” stated Felix Eichhorn, President of AIDA Cruises.
AIDAprima has been working to Dubai Harbour since 2021 and might accommodate as much as 3,200 passengers. This season, passengers embarking and disembarking from Dubai can stay up for various itineraries that embody locations like Muscat, Doha, Sir Bani Yas and Abu Dhabi.
Dubai has been a primary mover in becoming a member of up your entire journey and tourism ecosystem to facilitate hassle-free entry and visas for cruise passengers, seamless dealing with at ports which incorporates entry to Emirates check-in desks at Dubai Harbour together with a number of different facilities dotted throughout your entire air and floor journey. Travellers have the added benefit of disembarking at one of many world’s most iconic tourism locations, with landmarks and points of interest that swimsuit each style, age and price range.
The 12 Emirates check-in counters in Dubai Harbour enable passengers who’re disembarking from their cruise ships to totally check-in as much as 4 hours earlier than flight departure with the comfort of exploring Dubai with out their baggage earlier than heading on to the airport and breezing previous most formalities earlier than their flight.
Final 12 months, Emirates transported round 400,000 cruise passengers utilizing Dubai cruise terminals. The town welcomed over 166 ships over the last cruise season, making it the area’s greatest port of embarkation and hottest name for cruise liners. The town expects a rise of 23% extra cruise passengers for the upcoming season.