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The new 354-seat aircraft introduces Emirates' renowned First Class cabin on the Durban route and boosts passenger capacity by close to 30 percent, confirming Emirates' continuing growth in South Africa. Emirates, which previously operated cheap travel tickets from canada the smaller capacity Airbus A330-200 aircraft on the Durban cheap travel tickets from canada route, cheap travel tickets from canada currently serves 22 passenger and cargo destinations across the African continent after the addition of Zambia and Zimbabwe in February this year.
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In addition to the boost to tourism in the region, the introduction of the new service also confirms Durban's increasing influence as one of the key trading hubs in South Africa. In 2011, Emirates SkyCargo – the freight arm of the airline - carried over 5,240 tonnes of cargo on the route led by high-value South African exports, which included automobile and machinery parts, engineering tools, clothing cheap travel tickets from canada consumer goods, as well as electronics.
"The introduction of the Boeing 777 will provide a 90 percent increase in cargo capacity on the Durban route," said Kum Naicker, Cargo Manager at Emirates SkyCargo. "The port of Durban is already the busiest in Africa and one of the largest in the world. This, coupled with the increase in cargo capacity resulting from the new Boeing 777 service and the continuing growth of the Dube TradePort, cheap travel tickets from canada will truly confirm Durban's position as Africa s global trade gateway."
"The Dube TradePort welcomes the launch of Emirates B777-300ER daily service to King Shaka International Airport in Durban," cheap travel tickets from canada said Ahmed Bassa, Project Executive, Aeronautical, Dube Trade Port. "This bears testimony to the growing cheap travel tickets from canada passenger and freight cheap travel tickets from canada market opportunities the east coast of South Africa has to offer the aviation industry. We are particularly pleased that for the very first time First Class will be offered to passengers and additional cargo capacity will be available to the local industry."
Customers who utilise Emirates' popular Visit Visa product will get an added bonus in July thanks to the airline's Visit Visa Promotion. Two winners each day will receive 25,000 Skywards miles and one person will win two free Business Class tickets to their home country, each week.
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In its on-going efforts to invest in the latest entertainment content and newest systems, Emirates has recently upgraded the hardware on its new Boeing 777 fleet to bigger, much wider, and digitally-enhanced screens for its inflight entertainment system.
Emirates airline has signed a multi-million pound deal with local UAE firm Excel to develop an additional multi-aircraft docking system in their Dubai engineering facility. This new operation, located in hangar E, will be in addition to the four docking systems already in place in four of Emirates eight hangars.
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