Dubai Travel Guide

Air India launched the first international commercial flights from Srinagar in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, a move it is hoped will boost tourism in the troubled Himalayan territory.

State-run Air India will operate weekly flights between the insurgency-hit city and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Previously the only international flights out of Srinagar were charter planes to take Kashmiri Muslims to Saudi Arabia during the Haj season.

Kashmir was a major tourist destination before 1989, when a dozen Islamic rebel groups kicked off an insurgency demanding Kashmir’s independence from India or its merger with neighboring Pakistan. The conflict has killed more than 68,000 people, mostly civilians.
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Dubai celebrates the landmark Grand Opening of Atlantis, The Palm Resort, and the Palm Jumeirah during unprecedented pyrotechnics and illumination sequences on November 20, 2008 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

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Emirates has commenced a direct flight linking Dubai and China’s southern Guangzhou City, the country’s third largest air hub, the carrier’s Beijing office told Xinhua on Wednesday.

Flights EK362/3 currently run six times weekly, except on Friday.

Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong Province, is Emirates’ fourth China destination, along with Hong Kong, Shanghai and Beijing. It now has 48 weekly flights to the country.

Emirates flies the route with a modern A330-200 aircraft, in a two-class configuration offering 27 business class seats and 251 in economy class. It also has 13.6 tonnes of belly-hold cargo capacity.

The flight EK362 takes off from Dubai at 10:35 a.m. (local time) and arrives in Guangzhou at 10:20 p.m.. It then turns around as EK363 at 11:55 p.m. and arrives in Dubai at 3:40 a.m. the next day.

Xinhua