A plane carrying 300 passengers is expected to touch down at Orlando International Airport this morning from Dubai. The flight marks the launch of daily trips on Emirates airlines.
The Dubai-based company expects the 15-and-a-half-hour non-stop flight to encourage Floridians to venture overseas, and to bring more business to Central Florida from Asia and Africa. Emirates vice president of sales Matthias Schmid.“We see huge bookings basically during the first months of operation on these new flights from South Africa. We see a lot of bookings from Kuwait. We see a lot of bookings from India", Schmid listed. "So it’s really a diverse group of passengers that we bring into Orlando.”
The daily trips are the result of seven years of meetings between officials at Orlando International and Emirates executives.