RAS AL KHAIMAH Tourism Investment and Development Authority (RAK TIDA) recently signed an agreement with the German Tour Operator, Reise Service Deutschland and Dubai-based DMC World of Travel which will introduce five weekly charter flights to the emirate from Germany and one from Austria.
The services are contracted to run through to June next year and will bring an additional 50,000 visitors to the emirate.
According to the agreement, six charter flights,made on RAK Airways’ Boeing 757-200 aircraft, will arrive every week from various areas of Germany including Hamburg, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Berlin, Munich and the Austrian capital, Vienna.
The first flight from Hamburg was greeted personally by Sheikh Salem Bin Sultan Al Qasimi, chairman of the Department of Civil Aviation.