Emirates airlines Offers Football Fans a First Class FIFA World Cup Experience

12th March 2009 - Today marks another date for the history books with Emirates being announced as FIFA’s Global Tour Operator for the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Emirates will be offering fans from around the globe the chance to purchase world class, seamless travel packages that will include flights, accommodation, ground transportation and match tickets to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Football fans will also have the opportunity to purchase, for the first time, unique follow your team travel packages that will ensure they don’t miss a moment of their team’s action over in South Africa and safeguard them should their team be unfortunate enough not to qualify. Emirates partnership with FIFA began at the 2006 FIFA World Cup when it became the first airline to be a sponsor of this prestigious global sporting event. Following on from the success of 2006, Emirates then cemented its status as an Official FIFA Partner up to and including the 2014 FIFA World Cup “Emirates is a valued partner of FIFA and we are delighted to have them on board as our global Tour Operator, commented Jérôme Valcke , FIFA General Secretary. The Emirates FIFA World Cup Tour Packages will go on sale shortly and a further announcement will be made detailing the tour packages.