Emirates ties up with lastminute.com for hotel deals

Emirates has tied up with lastminute.com, the UK‘s largest hotel intermediary which will provide customers access to over 100,000 three- to five-star hotels in 59 countries via the airline’s website.

Hotel options will be promoted on emirates.com under the heading “Book a hotel” and will service customers’ global hotel needs across 59 international markets where Emirates operates. The agreement will be live on emirates.com for an initial 18 months.

The service will give customers access to over 100,000 city and resort-based hotels worldwide, with access to lastminute.com’s full range of luxury, holiday and hip hotels. It will initially be available in English with customers able to pay for their accommodation in pounds sterling, US dollars and the euro. A wider range of languages and currency will be introduced in the future.

Ghaith Al Ghaith, Emirates’ Executive Vice President Commercial Operations Worldwide, said: “Lastminute.com’s vast range of hotel content complements our online product and is pivotal to this relationship. We are confident this new service will be welcomed by all our customers.”

Emirates is one of the fastest growing airlines in the world and flies to 88 cities in 59 countries with one of the youngest fleets of 100 Boeing and Airbus aircraft in the skies.

It flies five times a week from Larnaca to Dubai and Malta.