A statement from Emirates
Emirates is providing this addition to the airline's website to provide passengers with full information, updated regularly, on any changes which may be made to our scheduled flights as a result of military activity in Iraq. Access to all other areas of the Emirates website is available by clicking the button below.
I would like to take this opportunity to say that safety remains our top priority. The airline is monitoring the situation 24 hours a day, seven days a week to ensure in every way we can the wellbeing of our flight and cabin crews and our passengers.
Where necessary, we will use alternative routes. These are well established and recognised as safe by all international aviation authorities. Emirates has never flown over Iraq, even under normal conditions, and none of our routes takes our aircraft near to that country.
We all pray that peace will be restored soon. In the meantime, our task is to ensure that air travel on Emirates, for our crews and for our passengers, remains safe, secure and accompanied by the highest standards of service.
Maurice Flanagan - Group Managing Director