Emirates to fly to Madagascar by way of Seychelles

Emirates will launch flights to Madagascar from 3 September 2024, providing extra alternative and connectivity for travellers, and driving inbound leisure and enterprise journey to the nation. The four-weekly flights between Dubai (DXB) and Antananarivo (TNR), will function by way of a linked service with the Seychelles.

Boosting worldwide journey to and from Madagascar, the flight occasions have been scheduled to optimise connections to and from key factors in Europe, the Far East, West Asia and the Center East/GCC. EK707 will depart from Dubai to the Seychelles at 0855hrs, arriving in Mahe at 1335hrs*, and can proceed on to Antananarivo to land at 1650hrs. The return flight EK708 departs Antananarivo at 1835hrs, touchdown in Mahe at 2220hrs. The flight then takes off from Mahe at 2350hrs to Dubai, touchdown at 0420hrs the following day. Flights will function on Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday. Travellers wanting to mix two holidays in a single even have the choice to conveniently fly between the Seychelles and Madagascar in model and luxury.

Tourism is a key pillar in Madagascar’s financial system, contributing to the creation of hundreds of employment alternatives that assist the nation’s objective to serve a million vacationers by 2028. Emirates’ new route will present connectivity from over 140 factors in its international community, supporting the Ministry of Tourism’s technique to diversify goal markets and introduce worldwide travellers to the island’s many pure points of interest. Emirates can be in dialogue with Air Madagascar to supply additional international connectivity to advertise tourism and commerce.

Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ Deputy President and Chief Business Officer stated: Madagascar has traditionally been underserved, regardless of rising urge for food from travellers for genuine ecotourism experiences. Emirates understands the significance of providing prospects environment friendly connectivity and premium journey experiences and we’re assured that this new service can have a optimistic influence on boosting Madagascar’s connectivity, providing extra alternatives for travellers to find the hidden gem that’s Madagascar, along with opening new worldwide enterprise alternatives.

The Malagasy’s authorities is spearheading efforts to develop its tourism sector by engaging extra vacationers to expertise the island’s famend biodiversity and pure points of interest. Emirates is able to assist Madagascar’s tourism agenda by serving to deliver guests from round its community.  We thank the Malagasy’s authorities for his or her partnership and assist in establishing this route and we sit up for welcoming passengers onboard quickly.”

Manambahoaka Valéry Ramonjavelo, Madagascar’s Minister of Transports, and Meteorology stated: “Our settlement between the United Arab Emirates and Madagascar opens the best way to this new Antananarivo-Dubai route and represents a big step ahead for the event of tourism and commerce between the 2 nations. That is extraordinarily optimistic information in multiple method, because it opens a brand new door between Madagascar and the world, via the Dubai hub, the largest worldwide hub in passenger numbers.

It is going to additionally introduce the entire world to the unimaginable touristic and cultural treasures of Madagascar, whereas additionally creating alternatives for brand new enterprise streams. The affiliation of our nationwide airline mixed with this new Emirates route it’ll strengthen connectivity for our areas.”

Madagascar is the world’s fourth largest island, boasting gorgeous surroundings from white sandy seashores and emerald waters, to lush rainforests and nationwide parks and the fossilized shells on limestone plateaus. Colloquially known as Treasure Island, it’s dwelling to three World Heritage UNESCO websites.

Adventurers can partake in quite a lot of thrilling actions, reminiscent of mountaineering, trekking or quad biking, or take to the seas with kite browsing, scuba diving or whale watching. Animal lovers can go to Lemur’s Park and uncover 9 sorts of lemurs, together with different wildlife and fauna, whereas meals aficionados can pattern the standard delicacies and scrumptious native produce.

Madagascar can be dwelling to a wealth of treasured biodiversity, with 5% of the planet’s plant and animal species discovered solely on the island. To guard the intricacies of the pure world, Madagascar encourages ecotourism, enabling guests to immerse themselves within the abundance of nature and embrace the native tradition whereas respecting the surroundings.

The UAE and Madagascar have grown their bilateral relationship throughout quite a lot of sectors, together with business, logistics and different industries to strengthen the expansion of mutual commerce. With the launch of the passenger flight, the airline’s cargo arm, Emirates SkyCargo, will assist this by exporting items by way of its state-of-the-art hub in Dubai, into key markets such because the UAE, China, Indonesia, the USA and France, amongst others.

Fuelled by the nation’s entrepreneurial spirit, extra Malagasy companies are focusing on international audiences. Providing 22 tonnes of bellyhold cargo capability out and in of Antananarivo each week, Emirates SkyCargo will uplift key commodities reminiscent of recent vegetables and fruit, vanilla, textiles and mining merchandise, transporting them rapidly, effectively and reliably by way of the airline’s multi-vertical specialised product portfolio.

The Dubai- Antananarivo route shall be served by the Boeing 777-300ER, with 8 First Class suites, 42 Enterprise Class suites and 310 seats in Financial system. Providing the most effective expertise within the sky, passengers can dine on regionally impressed multi-course menus developed by a staff of award-winning cooks complemented by a big selection of premium drinks. Prospects can tune in to over 6,500 channels of world leisure in varied languages on ice, Emirates’ award-winning inflight leisure system.