Emirates quashes CT service rumours

Emirates has assured customers that it will continue to operate its daily Cape Town service, with Dubai-Durban flights on the cards for 2009. The airline denied online rumours that it was considering cancelling or scaling down its daily Cape Town service because the route was not profitable, according to sister online publication TravelHub. Sales manager for the Cape, Anja Meadon, told TravelHub that the airline’s senior VP for Africa, West Asia and India, Salem Obaidalla, had visited Cape Town recently and had given his assurances that the airline would continue to operate daily frequencies on the route. The Dubai-Durban service, which was scheduled to launch on December 1, 2008, has been postponed because of lack of equipment and schedule changes linked to the late delivery of Emirates’ new A380 aircraft on the Los Angeles and San Francisco routes.