Dubai’s Emirates operates first flight with vaccinated crew at all customer touchpoints

Dubai’s Emirates operates first flight with vaccinated crew at all customer touchpoints

Dubai carrier Emirates has operated its first flight serviced by fully vaccinated frontline teams across all customer touchpoints.

The full airport and onboard customer experience of Emirates flight EK215 to Los Angeles, which departed Dubai at 8.30am today, was supported by over 70 vaccinated team members covering check-in, security, Business and First Class lounge and boarding gate employees, as well as engineers, pilots and cabin crew.

Also supporting the flight's operations were fully vaccinated aircraft appearance, loading and special handling teams from dnata, as well as Emirates SkyCargo teams working on the cargo and logistics requirements for EK215.

The Emirates group rolled out its vaccination drive over a month ago, and since then, close to 26,000, or 44 per cent, of its UAE frontline aviation workforce have received both doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Sinopharm vaccines.

Adel Al Redha, chief operating officer, Emirates Airline said: "Protecting our people with vaccinations is important - for them, for our community, for the smooth running of our operations, and also for our customers as it introduces of an additional layer of protection when they travel with us. We've seen a very positive response with high demand and take-up of the Covid-19 vaccine from our colleagues