The codeshare also provides more flexibility on flight timings, giving Emirates customers flying to Mexico City more options when choosing flights
Extending its codeshare partnership with American carrier United Airlines, Dubai-based Emirates Airlines will add eight new destinations in Mexico, in addition to Mexico City, which the airline already serves.
Emirates says its expansive codeshare network with United currently includes a host of United States cities and Mexico becomes the first country outside of the US to be added to the growing network.
This codeshare partnership enables passengers flying on Emirates to two points in the US, either Chicago or Houston, to connect onwards to leisure destinations in Mexico. The new Mexican points include Cancun, Cozumel, Monterrey, Puerto Vallarta, Guadalajara, San Jose Del Cabo, Leon/Guanajuato, and Queretaro, says the statement.
It adds that the codeshare also provides more flexibility on flight timings, giving Emirates customers flying to Mexico City more options when choosing flights. Depending on travel plans, passengers can opt to fly to the Mexican capital using Emirates daily services from Dubai with a stop in Barcelona, or separately book codeshare flights to Mexico City.
The airline says that tickets to codeshare destinations in Mexico are available for travel starting on September 14.
Emirates says that the new points to Mexico enhanced its codeshare network to now include 134 destinations, accessible from United’s gateways in the US, while almost 100 additional points across the US, Canada, Central and South America and the Caribbean are available for customers to choose from on an interline basis.
It adds that the newly-expanded network of Mexican destinations now available to Emirates customers is expected to be popular amongst customers from the Middle East, India and South Africa, to name a few. The most frequented destinations for global travellers embarking from points in Mexico include India, Israel, UAE, South Africa and select points in South East Asia.