Emirates Airlines has launched its summer service to the Saudi Arabian city of Al Medinah al Munawarah with the first flight touching down at Prince Mohammad bin Abdulaziz International Airport over the weekend.
Due to strong demand an additional two services to Medinah Al Munawarah will be added effective 3 August 2010, bringing the destination to a four times weekly service. Flights to the city will be active until 24 September 2010 in line with the routes temporary summer schedule.
Ahmed Khoory, Emirates’ senior vice president Commercial Operations Gulf, Middle East and Iran said: “Forward bookings over summer for Medinah Al Munawarah are extremely strong, particularly from key markets including the UAE, the Sub-continent, Far East and parts of Africa. We are extremely pleased with how this short term destination looks set to perform and all going well we may look to make this a more permanent route.
Emirates currently operates to three destinations in Saudi Arabia including; Riyadh, Jeddah and Dammam. The airline first began operations to the Kingdom in 1989 with services to Jeddah.
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