Emirates operates its first flight with a fully vaccinated crew

Emirates airline on Sunday said it operated its first flight serviced by fully vaccinated frontline teams across all customer touchpoints. Flight EK215, which departed this morning from Dubai for Los Angeles, was supported by check-in, security, business and first class lounge and boarding gate employees, as well as engineers, pilots and cabin crew who made the choice to be fully vaccinated, said the airline. The carrier rolled out its vaccination drive at pace just over a month ago, and since then, close to 26,000, or 44%, of the company’s UAE frontline aviation workforce have received both doses of either the Pfizer-BioNTech or Sinopharm vaccines. “Our operational workforce is at the aviation frontline, helping people get to where they need to be, and moving essential goods to global communities,” said Adel Al Redha, COO, Emirates Airline. “We've seen a very positive response with high demand and take-up of the Covid-19 vaccine from our colleagues at the operational frontline, and there's continued momentum in the rate of vaccinations across the business.” <br/>