Prime Travel News

June 2010

Welcome to the June edition of Prime Travel News. We have an exciting month ahead with the start of the football in South Africa and to celebrate Prime Travel we have teamed up with Qatar Airways and www.timeoutdubai.com to put some great value holiday packages together to see the homelands of the finalists.

The holiday packages also shows Qatar Airways ‘The Wolds 5 Star Airline’ extensive route network via its Doha hub and also great value to see some amazing destinations.

If you live in the GCC and subscribe to Orbit Show Time look out for our TV campaign where you can win a trip to Bali. The commercial will appear through the networks channels over the month of June.

Richard Evans General Manager Prime Travel receiving Delta Airlines agency of the year award

The awards also keep coming for Prime Travel; we were recently named one of the top 5 agents in the UAE for Delta Airways. Also the Airline Alliance of SkyTeam that includes carries such as Air France, KLM, Aerofloat and Kenya Airways, has also awarded a ‘Excellence in Service Award’. Once again it is great to get the recognition for all the hard work of all the team at Prime Travel across our locations of Dubai, Baghdad and Kandahar.

In this edition find out more on our Qatar Airways World offers, details on a great late offer deal to Bali and a competition to win a pair of noise cancelling headphones ideal for a long haul flight.

I hope you enjoy this month Prime Travel News, and once again thank you for your custom and loyalty to Prime Travel.

Aiden Walsh
Assistant Travel Manager

Qatar Airways World Offers

To find out more about the great value holiday offers to a range of Qatar Airways destinations including, Cape Town, Melbourne, San Paulo and many more. All offers included 4 nights’ accommodation and return airport transfers.Click here for more

Bali Bonanza from AED 3299/USD $899 price per person

Bali is an amazing destination and Prime Travel this May has teamed up with the national airline of Indonesia Garuda, and the four stars Hard Rock Hotel to give our customer a Bonanza of an offer. Fly out on an evening departure from Dubai to Bali (via Jakarta) and have 4 nights where you can relax at your fabulous hotel or explore to find out what makes the island of Bali so special. Price included flights, accommodation including breakfast and return airport transfers. Price includes flights, accommodation, daily breakfast and return airport transfers.

The offer is available for bookings up to the 31 May 2010 for departures between 02 to the 30 June 2010.

What you waiting for, call the Prime Travel team on 04 3618120 or click here for more details

Win with Prime Travel

Well done to Michal Cahil based in KAF for correctly answering that Air France and KLM use Terminal 1 at Dubai international Airport.

This month you can win a pair of Sony MDR-NC22 noise cancelling headphones. To win just fill in the missing word below Qatar Airways is known as the ‘Worlds (finish the rest of the sentence).

Send your answers to aiden.walsh@primetravelshop.com before the 07 July, winners will be announced in next month’s Prime Travel News.

Good Luck

Airline News

Delta increase First Class Service

Delta Air Lines on Thursday said it would add first class seats to domestic flights longer than 750 miles or about two and a half hours long later this year.

Once upgrades are completed, 50 routes that feature Delta Connection flights with just one service class will have both first and economy class, the company said.

By autumn, Delta's fleet will include 219 regional aircraft with two-class service, the company said. Service on the new two-class flights may be operated by regional carriers SkyWest, Pinnacle Airlines, Chautauqua and others, it added.

Meals and linen service are offered on all regional flights that feature a first class cabin, Delta said. It said planes that have first class include Embraer and Bombardier models.

Etihad Airways has been ranked among the best three airlines in the world by leading Swiss business publication, BILANZ.

The ranking comes following a survey of frequent flyers in Switzerland and after comparisons of different airlines undertaken by BILANZ journalists themselves. BILANZ also used recent international surveys such as the Skytrax ratings - in which Etihad was awarded World’s Best First Class by almost 18 million air travellers worldwide - to confirm the airline’s overall ranking.

As well as being ranked third best airline in the world, Etihad Airways was ranked number one in the ‘Onboard Service’ category and second in the ‘Business Class’ category.

The BILANZ ratings are conducted annually, and the results are among the most highly regarded in the Swiss market.

Peter Baumgartner, Etihad Airways’ Chief Commercial Officer said: “I am very proud that in less than seven years, Etihad Airways has risen to be among the top three airlines operating to Switzerland, which is a very important market for Etihad.

Five Star Carrier Strengthens Its Presence In Spain With Second Destination

Barcelona, SPAIN – Qatar Airways, one of the world’s fastest-growing airlines, achieved yet another milestone yesterday as it launched daily flights between Doha and Barcelona – its 90th destination.

With the touchdown of flight QR067 in Barcelona, where the aircraft was welcomed by a dramatic water salute and met by senior airport officials and local dignitaries, the airline reinforced its position as the only Gulf carrier flying to Spain.

Barcelona is Qatar Airways’ second city served in Spain, after Madrid, and is expected to receive great response from leisure and business travellers alike. The new route underscores a growing commitment by the airline to the Spanish market following earlier capacity increases to the country’s capital city of Madrid last year.