Dubai Duty Free (DDF) reported sales worth US$2.16 billion for 2023, representing a 24.39 per cent increase over the previous year and 6.4 per cent over pre-pandemic numbers of 2019. DDF, which recently celebrated its 40th anniversary, recorded more than 20 million sales transactions throughout 2023, an average of 55,000 transactions daily. It added that…
Virgin Atlantic has announced plans to boost its routes to Dubai, the Maldives and Barbados next winter. The carrier launched thrice weekly flights from Heathrow to the Maldives in October, and said it would increase this service to daily for the winter 2024-2025 season. Meanwhile Virgin’s route between Heathrow and Dubai – which resumed in…
On Wednesday, Emirates became the world’s first airline to operate an A380 demonstration flight using 100 per cent Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). The flight was operated from Dubai International (DXB) with one of its four engines powered on 100 per cent SAF. That successful flight, Emirates says, helped demonstrate the potential of SAF “as a…
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