Newsmakers
Emirates and MAB tie up alliance deal
December 1st 2015
Emirates boss, Sir Tim Clark, was in Kuala Lumpur as the year drew to a close to announce his new strategic alliance with MAB, the former MAS. Read More » And how things have changed between the two carriers. In the pre-Christoph Mueller days, MAS regularly accused Gulf carriers of stealing the Malaysian flag carrier’s Kangaroo Route customers. That was then.
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Since Mueller took charge of the new company, MAB, in September, he and Clark have drawn up a strategic alliance that will result in the cancellation of MAB services to Amsterdam and Paris and a code-share between MAB and Emirates. It remains to be seen how MAB passengers will react to the agreement. They will now have to fly out of Kuala Lumpur to Dubai and onto to Paris or Amsterdam on the UAE carrier – a one stop, longer journey instead of a non-stop trip. The new arrangements will apply from the end of January.
