Thread: Nonrev Correspondent - Dubai

Hi Sharon,
You don’t mention if your hubby is entitled to spouse interline deductions, or whether it’s full fare or not.
Either way, let me know your full routing and dates of Travel and will see what we can come up with fare wise for him.
2 days isn’t very long in Dubai, but can give you lots of suggestions of things to do to fill them.
cheers

Hi Serge,
Sorry for the long delay. Taroub was away.
She says that she has never received any email from you at all.
Can you advise your SITA address and will communicate direct.
Regards
Peter

Hi again Serge,
I have checked further. You still didn’t tell me what your airline is, but presume it is TY?
If it is TY, then we have no commercial agreement between EK and TY so there can be no interline agreement.
Presume you are not an SB employee, as we already have an interline agreement with them and a ZED fare agreement.
Sorry
Peter

Hi Sharon,
Well I believe we could improve a bit on the full fare, but of course it’s still pricey for a few days..
Email me at peterquinn@canada.com

The FX discount is 50% I believe, but that would have to be ex one of our online Euro points LON/PAR/FRA/MAN/BHX/MUC/DUS/ZRH/NCE/MIL or ROM added to whatever other airline deal you could get transatlantic.

As regards what to do...
It will still be pretty hot in September, but that’s the way it is.
Suggest that a must-do is a 4 wheel drive dune bashing trip followed by a dune dinner.
Its great fun and the trips run every day. They pickup from your hotel every day and it lasts about 4 hours.
You get to see the sunset from the top of a very high sand dune after thrashing up and down them for a while.
Then an Arabic dinner with camel rides/belly dancers etc.
Arabian Adventures is about the best.
If you are in a town hotel, then plan a day at the beach. There’s always an onshore breeze, so it is fine no matter how hot it is.
Plan enough shopping time as there are some great prices on many things. Clothing shopping for manufacturers over runs in Karama. Anyone who come here always wants to visit the gold souk, and it’s rare that anyone leaves without buying (including us residents)!
The old souk areas in Deira and Bur Dubai (all very close as Dubai is quite compact) are very atmospheric with lots of interesting shops and stalls.
The spice souk with all the usual spices and frankincense & myrrh etc is very close to the gold souk.
You can catch an abra (small open air ferry) across the DXB Creek between the souks. Costs about 15 cents!
If you prefer air conditioned shopping, there are numerous huge malls with more shopping opportunities that we can ever use.
There are a zillion choices for eating out with lots of pubs restaurants and night clubs to refresh yourselves at.
I think just doing the above would fill up most of the available time you would have.
cheers

Hi Pete,
I don't think that is generally true except for some categories of fares and staff, like parents. For example, there are some airlines which only offer us one ID75 per year, but they are in the minority.
If you tell me your airline I can look in the agreement in our staff travel manual.
Almost without exception deals between airlines are reciprocal, so whatever we get on your airline you would get on us.
cheers