Emirates: 85% of Pilots and Cabin Crew Vaccinated

On Monday, Emirates Airline announced that over 85% of its staff had been administered both doses of the COVID-19 Vaccine.

The global take-up of coronavirus vaccines is seen as key to the reopening of borders and lifting social restrictions that have hit travel demand over the past year.

Over 35,000 Emirates employees have taken a vaccine shot, the company announced in a statement. 

Earlier in January, they announced they would be handing out free vaccines to all employees. The UAE airline offers employees the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and another shot developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).

The airline also announced that they would operate a special flight that would only have fully vaccinated crew members and passengers scheduled for April 10. 

The special flight will depart the Dubai International Airport (DXB) at 12:00 noon and fly over various areas across the UAE. The flight will return to DXB at 2:30 pm. Passengers will have the opportunity to experience Emirates’ newest A380 aircraft which features the airline’s brand-new Premium Economy seats and refreshed cabin interiors across all cabin classes.

The UAE is one of the world’s leading countries in administered vaccinations for citizens and residents and has made four COVID-19 vaccines available for free to everyone. To date, over 8 million vaccine shots have been administered in the UAE, protecting over half of the UAE’s population.

The Emirates Group has supported the national vaccination program by making COVID-19 vaccines readily available to its UAE-based workforce at multiple locations within the company’s premises.






Source: Reuters
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