Emirates Code share with BA on Manchester-DXB. According to the BA UK EC members handbook you can olny earn points and miles if flying the route on a BA, not EK, prefix.

I'm considering a trip to Dubai for a holiday, and I would like to give Emirates a try.. but I will be flying from Sweden, and the only flights Emirates seems to offer are a code-share with SriLankan from Stockholm to Dubai... anyone here have any experiences on this airline?

They now fly direct to Europe from Sydney as well as Mel. The "I Dream Of Jeannie" veiled type headdresses on FA really are a funny sight!

some cultures find those white westerners with ties a very funny sight

others will never understand how visitors/tourists can walk around just in shorts.

etc. etc. etc.

Ozstamps' and Rudi's last comments remind me of a passage in a G.K. Chesterton book, "The Napoleon of Notting Hill," to the effect that an Englishman (by extension, a Westerner) thinks an Arab "international" only if he speaks English and understands cricket -- but by that standard an Englishman cannot brag about being "international" unless he can ride a camel and speak Arabic.

I would think the Arabian traditional costume funny myself, unlike my own conervative business attire which is complete only if I have tied 54" of fabric made from worm spit around my neck in one of three permissible knots. http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/smile.gif