EMIRATES APPOINTS NEW COUNTRY MANAGER FOR TANZANIA

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, August 2017: Emirates has announced the appointment of Mr. Rashed Alfajeer as the new country manager for Tanzania

Mr. Alfajeer, a United Arab Emirates national, will be responsible for overseeing Emirates’ commercial, customer and cargo operations in the market.

“I’m delighted to have been appointed as the new country manager for Tanzania and I’m looking forward to working with the local team, as well as our trade partners in further developing the Emirates business in the market,” said Mr. Alfajeer.

“My focus in will be to continue providing our customers in Tanzania with the best possible service and value for money, as we connect them to more than 150 destinations across the world,” he added.

Mr Alfajeer joined Emirates in 2013 as part of the airline’s UAE National Management Programme for Commercial Operations. Since then, he has held commercial support roles in Sri Lanka before taking on the role of District Manager in Dammam, Saudi Arabia in 2015.

Emirates operates once daily between Dar es Salaam and Dubai with a Boeing 777.

When travelling on Emirates, all customers experience the airline’s award-winning ice system which offers over 2500 channels of on-demand audio and visual entertainment, gourmet cuisine and the world famous hospitality and service from its multi-national cabin crew, including Tanzanian nationals.

Emirates flies daily between Dar es Salaam. Flight EK 0725 departs Dubai at 1025hrs and arrives in Dar es Salaam at 1450hrs. The return flight, EK 0726 departs Dar es Salaam at 1645hrs and arrives in Dubai at 2320hrs

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