The Germany’s Transport Ministry is putting pressure on Fly Emirates (the Dubai-based airline) to raise prices on some routes so they don’t undercut European carriers.

The German government said in a letter that it was illegal for non-EU airlines such as Emirates to undercut the prices of other carriers on routes from Germany to non-EU destinations. Some of the routes involved in this request are: Frankfurt-Johannesburg and Hamburg-Singapore.

“This measure does not primarily affect Emirates but I have also called upon other aviation companies from non-EU countries to remove their tariffs from the market,” the president of Germany’s Office of Transport Goods, Andreas Marquardt, said in the letter (source: Reuters).

The Commission was not immediately available for comment. A spokesman for Germany’s Transport Ministry said he was unaware of any plans for Ramsauer to meet Emirates representatives.

Emirates (Arabic: طيران الإمارات Ṭayarān al-Imārāt) (also known as Fly Emirates) is a major airline in the Middle East, and a subsidiary of The Emirates Group. It is the national airline of Dubai, United Arab Emirates and operates over 1,995 passenger flights per week. It has 49 weekly flights at four German airports.
Emirates flies to 91 destinations in 55 countries on six continents from its primary hub in Dubai. It has a particularly strong presence in the Southeast Asian region, which together, connects Dubai with more international destinations in the region than any other Middle Eastern airline. The countries with the largest number of airports served by Emirates are India with 10 and the United Kingdom with 6.
Destination in Germany:

* Düsseldorf – Düsseldorf Airport
* Frankfurt – Frankfurt Airport
* Hamburg – Hamburg Airport
* Munich – Munich Airport

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