Emirates geared up to celebrate the launch of its daily non-stop services to Beijing with the airline’s senior managers travelling to the city earlier today.
Ghaith Al Ghaith, Emirates’ Executive Vice President Commercial Operations Worldwide was accompanied by Richard Vaughan, Emirates’ Senior Vice President Commercial Operations East Asia and Australasia, His Excellency Mr. Gao Youzhen, Consul General of the People’s Republic of China and a delegation of journalists from the local media.
In Beijing, Emirates will meet with the local media and commemorate the service with a spectacular gala dinner for more than 600 trade partners.
Emirates has announced a range of special offers to its passengers travelling to the city – First and Business Class passengers receive complimentary stay at the luxurious Shangri-La Hotel in Beijing; and Economy Class passengers in the UAE an exceptional introductory fare of AED 1,800 for a round trip from Dubai. In addition, UAE-based passengers who book their Dubai-Beijing tickets online could be one of four lucky ones to win back the entire value of their ticket. Skywards, the frequent flyer programme for Emirates and SriLankan, have announced special Cash-plus-Miles offers.
Emirates is operating the route with its Airbus A340-300, offering 267 seats in a three-class configuration – 12 in First Class, 42 in Business and 213 in Economy – and 13 tonnes of cargo capacity. Emirates flight EK306 departs Dubai daily at 1015 hours and arrives in Beijing at 2200 hours. EK307 departs Beijing at 0005 hours and arrives in Dubai at 0550 hours.
SonicWALL Expands Senior Europe Sales Role to Accelerate EMEA Region Development Extended role for Marvin Blough supports increased focus on channel and sales development throughout the region Dubai – 6th 2006: SonicWALL, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNWL) a leading provider of continuous data protection and network, Web and email security solutions, has announced the appointment of Marvin Blough to the role of vice president, EMEA sales at SonicWALL. Blough was previously vice president, Europe Sales at SonicWALL. In his expanded role, Blough will lead the company’s go-to-market strategy in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In his prior SonicWALL role as vice president, Americas sales, Blough oversaw the restructuring of SonicWALL’s channel programs, maintaining a pure play channel strategy, and reinforcing a set of best practices designed to create profitable and sustainable business models for the channel. As a result, SonicWALL resellers voted the company winner in the VARBusiness Annual Report Card awards for three consecutive years. “The move will accelerate the development of our channel programs and help drive strategies for growth and channel profitability in new and existing markets across the region,” said Matthew Medeiros, president and chief executive officer at SonicWALL. “Marvin has demonstrated outstanding capabilities in building the success and profitability of our operations in Northern Europe. Marvin will be a strong leader for this extended regional development initiative, which supports our worldwide growth strategy.” “We have seen excellent results in the US and Europe by creating a business model that is compatible with our channel partners’ success and profitability,” said Blough. “Our goal for the broader EMEA region is to replicate those best practices that are applicable in each country and supplement them with new programs that support specific local markets. I am looking forward to the challenge of continuing the impressive growth we have achieved to date. We will build on this using our 100 percent channel-focused model and by working closely with our resellers to assist them in growing their business in both existing and new markets
