Emirates increases flights to Tripoli

Emirates has announced it will increase capacity on its Tripoli services by 40 percent.

From 1 November, the carrier will introduce three additonal weekly flights to Tripoli, bringing the total number of weekly flights to 10.

Haitham Al Battawy, Emirates manager, Libya said: “The number of passengers travelling with Emirates has been growing steadily since the launch of the Tripoli service a decade ago. We have received numerous requests from both business and leisure travellers within Libya to increase services and we are delighted to be able to respond with these additional flights.”

The additional capacity announcement comes towards the end of a busy year for Emirates. The airline has launched five new destinations in 2010: Tokyo (Japan) on 28 March, Amsterdam on 1 May, Prague (Czech Republic) on 1 July, Madrid (Spain) on 1 August, and Dakar on 1 September 2010.

Emirates currently flies to 105 destinations in 64 countries.