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Emirates and Australia Since the commencement of services to Australia in 1996, weekly Emirates has carried more than 27.6 million passengers on its Emirates’ flights to Adelaide, Brisbane, , Perth Australian flights, boosting the nation’s annual A$30 billion export 77 and Sydney earnings from tourism. percent those services, reinforcing Emirates’ average seat factor on Progressive Growth commitment to business and leisure In 2015/16, Emirates carried more than Australian routes passengers visiting Australia. 80 3.35 million passengers on its Australian flights, with an average seat factor A 2015 study from Deloitte Access of 80% - one of the highest amongst million Economics shows that one Emirates’ passengers carried to/from carriers operating in the Australian -Sydney A380 service makes an Australia since 1996 market. The robust passenger numbers annual contribution of A$324 million were also replicated in carried with 27.6 (USD$233 million) to Australia’s GDP, a total carriage of 124,000 tonnes of high supporting 3,770 jobs. thousand value cargo; an integral part of Australia’s tonnes of cargo carried on annual A$5.8 billion trade with the UAE. Emirates flights to/from Emirates is currently the second largest Australia in 2015/16 cargo carrier in Australia, with an 11.6% 124 Emirates is the largest foreign carrier market share. The breadth of connectivity operating to Australia, flying 77 times and fast well-timed connections support Emirates’ Australia passenger traffic: 2006-2015 per week – daily to Adelaide, twice daily Australian exporters in getting fresh to Brisbane and Perth, and three times produce to market. Goods carried include 3,500,000 daily to Melbourne and Sydney. Twenty dairy from Adelaide, large quantities 3,000,000 eight of those flights connect across the of fresh meat transported in chilled 2,500,000 Tasman from eastern Australia’s capitals containers from Sydney and Brisbane, 2,000,000 to Auckland and Christchurch. 1,500,000 car parts from Melbourne, and mining

Passengers 1,000,000 equipment destined for Africa from Emirates currently deploys a mix of 500,000 Adelaide and Perth. A380 and 777 aircraft 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 on its Australia services. Emirates has Source: BITRE progressively up-gauged direct services The big picture – A national to Australia from B777s to A380s and footprint of investment and Emirates’ total freight to/from Australia: 2006-2015 currently operates a daily A380 service employment to Brisbane and twice daily A380 Employing over 7,400 Australians globally 140,000 services to Sydney, Melbourne and with 1,200 based in Dubai, Emirates 120,000 Perth. The up-gauges equate to Airline & Group has a national footprint of 100,000 an increase in capacity of 38% on aviation and tourism businesses beyond 80,000 60,000

Tonnes Oslo Stockholm St. Petersburg Seamlessly connecting 40,000 Glasgow Moscow Newcastle Copenhagen Dublin Manchester Australia to the , 20,000 Birmingham Amsterdam Warsaw Brussels Dusseldorf Liege Prague Paris Frankfurt Vienna Africa and Europe 0 Basel Munich Budapest Geneva Zurich Lyon Venice 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Milan Bologna Nice Zaragoza Rome Istanbul Source: BITRE Madrid Barcelona Lisbon Athens Algiers Tunis Malta Larnaca Casablanca Cairo Dubai Emirates’ passenger traffic to/from Australia

Dakar by market: FY 2015/16 Ouagadougou Khartoum Bangkok Kano Djibouti Conakry Abuja Lagos Addis Ababa Abidjan Sydney Adelaide Accra Kuala Lumpur Eldoret Singapore 30% 10% Entebbe Nairobi

Dar es Salaam Jakarta Luanda Middle East Network Bali Lilongwe Mashhad Lusaka Erbil Tehran Harare Beirut Baghdad Amman Brisbane Basra Johannesburg Kuwait Brisbane Durban 18% Dammam Perth Bahrain Perth Dubai Cape Town Medina Riyadh Doha Adelaide Sydney Auckland 22% Jeddah Melbourne Route Map Melbourne Christchurch Passenger Routes 20% Freighter Routes Source: Emirates Passenger & Freighter Routes Emirates Group – Australia based headcount Emirates Airline 1,517 Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley 93 Australia 1,686 Alpha 1,589 Emirates Leisure Retail 662 Cabin Services Australia 670

Total 6,217

Emirates Group – Australia based headcount Australians Northern are employed by Emirates Emirates Airline 1,517 Territory Airline and Group – globally Queensland Emirates One&Only Wolgan Valley 93 18 Western 7,400 Australia 863 dnata Australia 1,686 South Australia Alpha 1,589 521 million New invested by Emirates Emirates Leisure Retail 662 338 South Wales in developing Emirates A$ One&Only Wolgan Valley Cabin Services Australia 670 1,702 125 Victoria Total 6,217 1,200

invested+ million by Emirates in Tasmania Australian arts, community 58 A$ and sports 90 the five Australian cities it currently Combined, the two carriers operate 91 Northern serves. In addition, TerritoryEmirates has invested (77 Emirates / 14 ) weekly services over A$125 million in developingQueensland Emirates between Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, 18 One&OnlyWestern Wolgan Valley – Australia’s first Perth and Sydney to Dubai; connecting Australia 863 luxury conservation resort.South to Emirates’ network of 75 cities in the Australia 521 New Middle East, Africa and Europe. 338 South Wales Emirates – part of the Frequent flyers with both airlines can Australian community 1,702 Victoria earn and redeem points/miles on both Since 1996, Emirates has invested1,200 over Emirates and Qantas flights, take A$90 million in arts, community and sports Tasmania advantage of the expanded network and sponsorships. In Australia, Emirates is a 58 have their tier status recognised with sponsor of many community groups and both airlines. events, such as: the Victoria Racing Club and the Emirates Melbourne Cup; the Emirates Australian Open; the Australian Emirates and Qantas: Exceptional Open Golf Championships, the Australian airlines make exceptional partners

Horn Island PGA Championship; Collingwood Football Gove (Nhulunbuy) Darwin Club; as well as acting as the Principal Weipa Kununurra Cairns Broome (BME) Partner of the Sydney and Melbourne Townsville Port Hedland Cloncurry Proserpine Hamilton Island Exmouth Karratha Mount Isa Symphony Orchestras. Moranbah MacKay (Learmonth) Alice Springs Longreach Rockhampton Paraburdoo Uluru (Ayers Rock) Barcaldine Emerald Gladstone Newman (AYQ) Biloela Bunderberg Blackall Fraser Coast Charleville Sunshine Coast DXB Roma Brisbane Geraldton DXB Gold Coast Ballina (Byron) DXB Narrabri Coffs Harbour Olympic Dam Tamworth Armidale Launched on 31st March 2013, the Perth Kalgoorlie Port Macquarie Dubbo Lord Howe Island Mildura Port Lincoln Newcastle Emirates-Qantas global aviation DXB Wagga Wagga Sydney Adelaide Albury Canberra DXB Mount Hottam partnership provides customers with a Melbourne Avalon seamless international and Australian weekly flights between Devonport Lauceston network, and exclusive frequent flyer 91 Australia and Dubai Hobart benefits, and has significantly increased competition in Australia’s aviation market, For EmiratesAustralian customers destinations it opens with up 55 nearly 5,000 flights per week to the benefit of consumers. Qantas’ Australian domestic network of more than 55 destinations and 5,000 Upon entering the agreement, Qantas flights per week. Additionally, the two moved its hub for European flights to carriers code-share on each other’s Dubai with daily A380 services from services between Australia and New Melbourne and Sydney connecting Zealand, as well as Australia and South onwards to London-Heathrow. The East Asia – adding new destinations and commercial partnership goes beyond increased frequency. The joint-network flights code sharing to include integrated expanded further in 2014 to include per week between network collaboration with co-ordinated codesharing on some of the routes 91 Australia and Dubai pricing, sales and scheduling. operated by ’s Asian franchises. cities in the Middle East, Africa and Europe now available to 75 Qantas’ passengers FLY TO 7 DESTINATIONS IN destinations AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND across Australia now available to Emirates’ passengers 55 through the Qantas partnership domestic 5,000 flights per week