EMIRATES – LEADING THE FIELD IN SPONSORSHIP

In Dubai, Emirates is the title sponsor of the world’s richest race, the Dubai World Cup, and is Official Airline of the Dubai International Racing Carnival.

In 2005, Emirates extended its multi-million US dollar sponsorship of Godolphin, horseracing’s most successful international stable, for a further three years. Godolphin has won over 130 Group One races in 13 years and has entered the winner’s enclosure in no less than 11 countries.

In Australia, Emirates is the title sponsor of the ‘race that stops a nation’ – the Emirates Melbourne Cup and is also the Official Airline Partner of the Australian Jockey Club and sponsor of the Gold Coast Turf Club

In Britain, the birthplace of the sport of Thoroughbred horseracing, Emirates sponsors the Dubai Champion Stakes at Newmarket and the Yorkshire Cup (Gr.1) at York.

At America’s richest day of racing, the Breeders’ Cup World Championships, Emirates is the title sponsor of the US$2 million Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Distaff and the US$1 million Emirates Airline Breeders’ Cup Filly and Mare Turf

Emirates also sponsors during the Oaks meeting at The Curragh, Ireland’s globally renowned racecourse and has been the title sponsor of the prestigious Singapore Derby for the last 12 years.

Emirates has an impressive sports sponsorship portfolio which includes; Official Airline of the 2007 Rugby World Cup along with sponsorship of the IRB referees and match officials. Emirates is the title sponsor of four tournaments in the IRB Sevens World Series: Dubai, South Africa, London and Edinburgh, and the shirt sponsors of the England and Samoa sevens teams. In Australia, Emirates sponsors the Emirates Western Force.

Emirates is heavily involved in football as an Official Partner of FIFA World Cup and sponsor of Arsenal Football Club, Paris St Germain and Hamburg Football Club; along with the naming rights of Arsenal’s home ground – the Emirates Stadium.

Emirates is the sponsor of the Australian Cricket World Cup team, the ICC Umpires and is the Official Airline to Cricket Australia.

Emirates’ other sports include: sailing, as the title sponsor of Emirates Team New Zealand and their America’s Cup bid, in golf, Emirates is Official Airline to nine major tournaments around the world.

Since its launch in 1985, Emirates Airline has received more than 300 international awards in recognition of its efforts to provide unsurpassed levels of customer service.

It is the world’s fastest growing major airline with a network stretching across 88 cities in 60 countries within Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Indian Sub-Continent and Asia-Pacific Rim.

In October 2007, Emirates will again make history by becoming the first airline to offer a non-stop flight to South America, with the inauguration of its six-a-week, non-stop service to Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Emirates currently operates 14 non-stop flights each week from Paris to Dubai and three flights a week from Nice to Dubai.