Small & medium sized businesses take off with Emirates

An online-based programme, Business Rewards offers SMEs the opportunity to benefit from employee flights. Each time a registered employee books their Emirates flight through Business Rewards, the business earns Business Rewards Miles while the individual traveller continues to earn their Miles from Skywards, Emirates' frequent flyer programme. The company can then redeem accumulated Business Rewards Miles against future flights.

Keith Longstaff, Emirates' Divisional Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations Worldwide said: "Small and medium-sized businesses represent a large and growing segment of the market, particularly here in the Gulf. Our new Business Rewards programme has been tailored to offer these customers a range of benefits."

"Business Rewards is a result of months of research and planning, to understand what our SME customers want in a reward programme, and how we can transact and add value to them in an online environment. We believe the SME community in the UAE will embrace Business Rewards, and we look forward to introducing the programme to other markets in the coming months."

In addition to reward miles, Emirates' Business Rewards programme also provides a convenient online portal for administrators in SMEs to manage employee travel on Emirates Airline. The company must register with Business Rewards in the country where it is located, but it can accumulate Miles for travel undertaken by employees at all their branches into one central account.

Membership is free, and companies interested in signing up for Emirates' Business Rewards may do so at www.emirates.com/uae. More information about the programme is also available online.

Emirates Business Rewards is immediately available online to small and medium-sized businesses based in the UAE. The programme will soon be implemented in other markets served by Emirates.