At a press conference at the Hilton Hotel announcing the new service, Nasser Bin Kherbash, Emirates` General Manager for the Middle East and Africa, said: Mauritius is renowned throughout the world as the jewel of the Indian Ocean, an ideal holiday destination, with a high standard of service.
Our new operations will complement this hospitality and we are confident that we will be successful in increasing this important leisure traffic, as well as cargo operations.
We already feature over 20 twenty hotel and apartment properties across Mauritius in the current holiday brochure produced by Emirates Holidays, the wholesale travel division.
We look forward to developing this relationship between Mauritius and Dubai for our mutual benefit.
The non-stop flights straight down to the island, off the south-eastern coast of Africa, will be operated with an Airbus A330-200 aircraft in a two-cabin configuration, with 34 Business and 251 Economy Class seats.
Flight EK702 will operate every Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, departing Mauritius at 23:30hrs, and arriving at Dubai International Airport at 06:00hrs the following day.
The return flight, EK701, will take off from Dubai at 02:30hrs, arriving at Mauritius` Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport at 09:00hrs.
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Nasser Bin Kherbash (right) General Manager Commercial Operations Middle East and Africa, and Fouad Caunhye, Regional Manager East Africa, pictured at a roadshow in Mauritius where they announced details of the Emirates` flights to the popular holiday destination which start on September 1.
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