São Paulo – Emirates airline has announced on Tuesday (12) it is to resume a weekly flight from São Paulo to Dubai, as demand begins to return. From February 6, the company will have five weekly flights from Guarulhos International Airport to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, flights from São Paulo were daily, and Emirates also offered Rio de Janeiro-Dubai flights, which have no plans to resume.
From February, the EK-261 flight will leave the Dubai International Airport five times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 9:05am, local time, and arrive at Guarulhos Airport in São Paulo on the same day at 5:20pm, local time.
The EK-262 will leave Guarulhos Airport five times a week on Sundays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 1:25am, local time, and arrive on the same day at Dubai International Airport at 10:35pm, local time.
To travel do Dubai, the Brazilian tourists must present a valid negative PCR COVID-19 test taken up to 96 hours prior to the departure. For more information on travel safety, visit the Emirates’ website.
“Our top priority is giving our clients a safe, smooth travel experience. This includes supplying our Brazilian customers with a travel insurance covering many risks as well as COVID-19, something unheard-of in the industry, free of charge, in every ticket bought from December 1st, 2020 to January 31, 2021,” Emirates director-general Stephane Perard was quoted as saying in a news release.
Beyond São Paulo, Emirates customers can access to 24 other cities in Brazil via the airline’s partnership with GOL, Azul and LATAM.
- Find out more about traveling to the Arab countries in our Turismo section
Dubai resumed tourism activity in July and was one of the world’s first cities to obtain Safe Travels stamp from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) – which endorses Dubai’s measures to ensure guest health and safety.
In the first week of January, the UAE saw a 50% surge in the number of COVID-19 cases. Today, 2,423 new cases were recorder. Overall, the Arab country had 236,225 coronavirus cases and 717 deaths, the World Health Organization reported.
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Translated by Guilherme Miranda
