Dubai’s Emirates refunds $1.4 billion to customers affected by COVID-19 travel restrictions

Dubai’s Emirates refunds $1.4 billion to customers affected by COVID-19 travel restrictions

Dubai's Emirates refunds $1.4 billion to customers affected by COVID-19 travel restrictions

Dubai's Emirates refunds $1.4 billion to customers affected by COVID-19 travel restrictions

Emirates reopened commercial flights on May 21 with services to an initial nine cities. (AFP file photo)

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Dubai's Emirates refunds $1.4 billion to customers affected by COVID-19 travel restrictions

More than 1.4 million refunds requests have been completed since March

Updated 07 September 2020

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DUBAI: Emirates has issued $1.4 billion in refunds to customers affected by COVID-19 travel restrictions, the Dubai airline said in a statement.

More than 1.4 million refund requests have been completed since March, representing 90 percent of the Dubai airline's backlog.

This includes all requests received from customers around the world up until the end of June, except for a few cases which require further manual review, Emirates