Milestone flight EK2021 highlights UAE’s impressive vaccination drive
3 hours ago The special flight EK2021, which carried fully vaccinated crew and passengers onboard, was unprecedented in the industry in scale.
Gulf Today,
Staff Reporter
Emirates’ one-of-a-kind flight EK2021 proudly made a journey across the different emirates on Saturday, to celebrate the UAE’s remarkable progress in vaccinating its citizens and residents from COVID-19 through a national vaccination programme that has administered close to 9 million vaccines doses to date.
All proceeds for EK2021 have been donated to the Emirates Airline Foundation, the airline’s non-profit charity organisation which supports projects around the world aimed at improving the quality of life for disadvantaged children around the world.
April 2021 175 Emirates one-of-a-kind flight EK2021 proudly made a journey across the different emirates on April 10, to celebrate the UAE s remarkable progress in vaccinating its citizens and residents from Covid-19 through a national vaccination programme that has administered close to 9 million vaccines doses to date. The special flight, which carried fully vaccinated crew and passengers onboard, was unprecedented in the industry in scale. With close to 400 fully vaccinated customers onboard, the flight illustrates confidence and undiminished excitement for air travel. EK2021 was also supported by fully vaccinated teams across the aviation eco-system, from onboard crew to ground staff, demonstrating the readiness of the UAE s aviation eco-system to support the safe rebound of air travel.
An Emirates
flight carrying only vaccinated passengers and crew took to the skies on Saturday, to celebrate the success of the UAE s immunisation programme.
The short flight left Dubai International Airport at about midday,
returning at about 2.30pm.
Tickets for the landmark flight were Dh1,000 ($272) for economy and Dh2,000 for business class.
All proceeds will be donated to the Emirates Airline Foundation, a non-profit charity organisation that supports projects around the world aimed at improving the quality of life for disadvantaged children.
.@emirates today marked the #UAE’s remarkable progress in its vaccination program with a special flight that carried only fully vaccinated crew and passengers onboard. pic.twitter.com/Yh9xG0YjVs Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice)
Covid-19 in UAE: 400 vaccinated passengers on special Emirates flight
Abdul Karim Hanif/Dubai Filed on April 10, 2021 | Last updated on April 10, 2021 at 11.04 pm
It was a surreal experience for many, who hadn’t flown since the beginning of the pandemic over a year ago.
Around 400 passengers boarded, all of whom were vaccinated and carried a negative test result for Covid-19 on the special Emirates flight coded EK 2021. Aside from the passengers, all of the ground staff, cabin crew and the pilots were also vaccinated personnel nominated to be a part of the flight, according to the airline. It was added that 85% of the airline’s staff has so far been vaccinated.