Eid News

Largest balloon festival in Middle East floats through Qatar
Qatar Tourism celebrates Eid with the largest balloon festival in the Middle East. Balloons floated through the Qatari skies including iconic Qatari features such as a falcon, whale shark and Qatar Airways plane in Doha, Qatar.

Emirates adds extra flights to meet Eid demand
With Eid Al Fitr approaching and more travellers planning to take to the skies, Emirates is responding by offering more flights across seven cities in the Middle East. The airline is stepping up its schedule by adding 23 flights and layering on additional seats with the deployment of both A380s and Boeing 777s between 28 April and 8 May to the four cities it serves in KSA, as well as to Kuwait, Beirut, and Amman.