Source - Comment | Stephen Pearse, Emirates
Queensland has seen enormous growth for inbound tourism from the Gulf, with the Gold Coast in particular becoming a major high yield market and we expect this growth to continue strongly in 2008.
As a result we will double our Brisbane flights with a second daily service from October 2008 to operate the first non-stop service to Dubai from Brisbane.
The new Emirates Lounge at Brisbane airport will be ready for passengers in March and it will be the first lounge in the world capable of allowing travellers to board directly from the lounge onto the aircraft.
EK's new lounge in BNE will be the biggest and best outside of Dubai, I am being told. Brisbane was the first port to get an EK lounge outside of DXB, so it's great to see EK investing in a bigger and better lounge.
For an overview of where the new Lounge will be positioned,
click here (will be situated on the top level)
I believe EK also have exclusive access to one of the 2 A380 gates that are almost due for completion at Brisbane Airport.
Alot happening over the next 2 years with regards to Emirates and Brisbane:
- 77W on EK432/EK433 DXB-SIN-BNE and BNE-SIN-DXB from early Feb
- New EK Lounge to open in March
- New daily nonstop BNE-DXB-BNE flights from OCT with the A340-500
- EK A380s to Brisbane in 2009 - Source
Looking forward to seeing more of Emirates at Brisbane...
It's great to see that Emirates are investing a significant amount in our Airport and contributing greatly to not only the BNE economy, but the Gold Coast and Queensland economy as a whole.
Cheers