Two additional flights

Emirates airline will fly two additional flights per week to Mauritius starting June 27, 2009. Emirates current daily service will escalate to nine flights per week, in a bid to increase traffic to the island.

The additional flights will operate on Thursdays and Saturdays and increase existing capacity by almost 20% per week per direction.Emirates vice president commercial operations, West Asia & Indian Ocean Majid Al Mualla said the increased frequency was representative of the carrier’s enhanced commitment to Mauritius.Our recent campaigns have stepped up demand for the route as well as opened up new feeder markets such as Russia and East Europe.The increasing number of tourists will welcome these additional flights as they will have more travel options and better connectivity. Flights from Emirates’ Middle East network and Russia connect within four hours to the Mauritius service.More than 930,000 tourists visited Mauritius in 2008, representing a 2.6% increase in arrivals from the previous year.