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23 November, 2020

Emirates expands multi-risk travel insurance coverage

Emirates was the first airline to offer complimentary global covid 19 cover for travelers

Emirates airline announced an expanded multi-risk travel cover on top of its current Covid-19 cover at no additional cost to its customers. This new multi-risk travel insurance and Covid-19 cover will automatically apply to all Emirates tickets purchased from December 1, and extends to Emirates codeshare flights operated by partner airlines, as long as the ticket number starts with 176.

"Emirates was the first airline to offer complimentary global Covid-19 cover for travellers back in July, and the response from our customers has been tremendously encouraging. We've not rested on our laurels and instead continued to look at how we can offer our customers an even better proposition. We're very pleased to be able to now provide this new multi-risk travel insurance and Covid-19 cover, which is another industry first, to all our customers,” said Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman and CEO of Emirates.

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