Emirates and Qantas expand partnership to help promote the recovery of international travel – Dubai Blog

Qantas and Emirates announced that they will extend their cornerstone partnership for another five years, which means that customers and frequent flyers of the two airlines will have access to a wide-ranging joint network and millions of award seats. Travel to New Zealand, Europe and the United Kingdom.

The agreement was signed by Emirates President Tim Clark and Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce at the International Air Transport Association Annual General Meeting in Boston.

The two airlines have now obtained regulatory approval to conduct joint operations before March 2023. Qantas and Emirates will seek reauthorization from relevant regulators (including the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) to continue the core elements of the collaboration, including coordinated pricing, timetable sales and travel marketing on routes approved before 2028. The deal includes the option to renew for another five years after that.

Together, the two airlines provide frequent flyers with millions of award seats to use their Qantas points or Skywards miles to travel to more than 100 destinations, which have been hoarding throughout the pandemic.

For Emirates customers, the transaction provides access to more than 55 Australian destinations that Emirates does not fly to, while Qantas customers can fly Emirates to Dubai and travel to more than 50 in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa Cities, and Qantas does not fly to these destinations.

As Qantas and Emirates recover from the impact of COVID-19 on their respective businesses, the partnership will continue to bring financial benefits to both airlines.

CEO comment

Sir Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airlines said: “The expansion of our partnership with Qantas is a testament to its success. It also reflects our commitment to ensuring that customers travelling to and from Australia continue to have the best connectivity and benefits of frequent flyers, and we have been serving this market for 25 years. Despite the challenges faced in the past 18 months, today’s announcement underscores Emirates’ long-term existence.

“Our partnership connects travelers seamlessly to more than one hundred destinations around the world through our joint network, and provides coordinated and high-quality experiences, such as the use of points and lounges. As the border reopens, we look forward to restoring us The flight schedule in Australia includes our popular A380 service, and customers are welcome to experience our first-class partnership for many years to come.”

Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce said: “This marks the continuation of one of the most important bilateral partnerships in aviation. When it was launched in 2013, we called it an “earthquake” and it has always been, especially for the more than 13 million people who travel by air. , This is part of the transaction.

“The premise of our cooperation with Emirates has always been that no single airline can fly anywhere, but combined, we can fly most of the places our mutual customers want to go. And we treat each other’s customers as ourselves customer of.

“We know that it will take years for the international aviation market to fully recover, so close cooperation between airline partners will be more important than ever.”

This year, Emirates celebrated its 25th anniversary of flying to Australia. Since 1996, Emirates has transported more than 39 million passengers between Australian cities (including Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth) and other destinations through its Dubai hub passenger. Emirates continues to fulfill its firm commitment to the Australian market. Its scale of operations has increased from 3 flights per week when it was initially launched in Melbourne in 1996 to a peak of more than 100 flights per week before the pandemic.

Benefits of cooperation between Qantas and Emirates

Since 2013, more than 13 million passengers have traveled through the joint network, with a mileage of more than 87 billion kilometers.

On average, more than 13,000 Emirates passengers fly within Australia on Qantas domestic and regional flights every month.

Together, Qantas and Emirates provide customers with more than 100 codeshare destinations, including:

• 38 codeshare destinations in the UK and Europe, including Rome, Zurich and Barcelona
• 55 codeshare destinations in Australia and New Zealand
• 13 codeshare destinations in Africa and the Middle East
• 2 codeshare destinations in Asia