Emirates' Dubai to serve the route - Baghdad July 1

Emirates Airlines began July 1, 2010 will serve the route Dubai (United Arab Emirates), Baghdad (Iraq), with flights three times per week ie on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

Sheikh Ahmad bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, Emirates Chairman and Chief Executive, said Baghdad is the last city in the Middle East served by the airline's four-star version of Skytrax.

"As the last country we serve, I am glad that today we have a broad and complete coverage of the Middle East," he said via press release, today.

He is optimistic that the field level passengers (load factors) to Baghdad to meet the target, following the economic recovery of Iraq.

"Iraq is going through the recovery and we believe that this is a good time to start operational service in there," he said.

Emirates will use Airbus 330-200 aircraft offering a three-class configuration, consisting of 12 first class seats (first class), 42 business class seats and 183 economy class seats.

As for cargo transport on the route, Emirates' target can carry as many as 10 tons - 12 tons per flight.

Ram Emen, Emirates' Divisional Senior Vice President Cargo, said it was targeting all types of goods can be transported from all over the world to Iraq.

"We will deliver a range of commodities imported to Iraq where the country is doing the reconstruction process. [Goods imported] ranging from food, clothing, electronic goods, and mining equipment, "he said.

SIA-Spanair to Cooperate & Market

Singapore Airlines (SIA) and Spanair (Spain) in cooperation with the operational and marketing (codeshare) to facilitate the passengers of the two airlines had reached the final destination.
Codeshare with effect from May 17, 2010 that allows passengers of Singapore Airlines Singapore route - Barcelona went on to use the route Spanair to Barcelona - Madrid, Barcelona - Palma Mallorca, and Barcelona - Bilbao.

Meanwhile Spanair passenger could use the services of Singapore Airlines for travel from Barcelona to Singapore.

Huang Cheng Eng, EVP Marketing & the Regions Singapore Airlines, said the two airlines codeshare will also improve connectivity between Singapore and three important cities in Spain.

"This reflects our commitment to offer convenient connections and greater flexibility to customers when they make travel plans by offering more choice destinations," he said via press release, today.

Nuria Tarre Spanair Commercial Director said the partnership will offer more connectivity.

"Our partnership with Singapore Airlines will offer more connectivity, more comfort and a host of premium benefits such as VIP lounges we are different in some airports," he said.

Singapore Airlines is currently listed as a five star airline version of Skytrax, while Spanair is three star airlines.

Emirates scored 1.1 Billion Dollar Profit

Emirates Group, which consists of the airline Emirates, Dnata, and its subsidiaries, posted a net profit of 1.1 billion U.S. dollars in the 2009-31 financial year March 31 March 2010. Profit increased by 248 percent, compared to earnings the previous year.

"Last year was a year with a profit rate that is sustainable, even though the world is in recession. This is the result of adapting the spirit in bad condition," said Emirates Chairman Group, Your Highness Sheik Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum.

Sheik Ahmed said Emirates' growth because of competition not because of protectionism. And the key to success in 2009 was the effective transfer of staff, ability to retain talented employees, and unpaid leave programs voluntarily.

Revenue from airline Emirates for example, only remained stable at 11.8 billion, up 0.4 percent from a year earlier, but the Emirates' profits, up 416 percent to 964 million U.S. dollars.

That's because Emirates airline total operating costs down 2.7 percent over the previous year. And, the decline in fuel costs in the years 2009-2010 amounted to 691 million U.S. dollars.

Last year, Emirates' fleet is also added with 15 new aircraft, four Airbus A380s, 10 Boeing 777-300ER and one Boeing 777-200 LR aircraft cargo. So that at the end of the financial year, Emirates' fleet reached 142 aircraft, includes four freighters.

Microsoft Office 2010 is marketed

Microsoft Corp. finally launched the Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft SharePoint 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010 and Microsoft Project 2010 globally for business or corporate customers. The President of Microsoft Business Division, Stephen Elop said after launced in the U.S. more than 90 million companies can started to use product package in 2010 for significant productivity and rapid return on investment from their software.

Stephen Elop told that the package provide an illustration of future productivity. Through a product package in 2010, the organization will save money, innovate and grow because employees may work well in their personal computer, telephone and or the browser.

Forrester Consulting Study results on the product package in 2010 recorded a return of investment grade corporate users of this product reached three times with a return period of 7.4 months after deployment. The study also found that the combined organization will save more than U.S. $ 13 million over a period of more than three years, with an average savings of more than two weeks working time per year.

The study evaluating the use of four basic elements includes cost, benefits for the entire organization, flexibility, and risk. The number of participants tested Microsoft Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010 beta program which is the largest of which never existed, a three-fold compared with the participants of the Office 2007 beta program.

"The result, 8.6 million people are ready to use Office 2010 and related products. In addition, more than 1,000 partners expressed readiness to develop solutions to package products in 2010, "he said.

Mark Mastrianni, Manager of Global Technology Licensing and Acquisition, GE said it has evaluated a number of competitive option to the technologies used today and choose Microsoft Office 2010 as standard desktop productivity applications to date.

"This platform will continue to strengthen GE's position as a leader in technology and provide clear direction to support our business priorities in the future. Office 2010 is a product of the familiar and easy to use, "he said.