Emirates Airline’s Senior Vice President pays courtesy visit to Gujarat CM

Gandhinagar, 10 September 2014

The world renowned UAE’s Emirates Airline’s Senior Vice President Mr. Majid Al-Maula Sheikh today paid a courtesy visi to Gujarat’s first woman Chief Minister Smt. Anandiben Patel here.

During the meeting, Mr. Sheikh was very praised of Gujarat’s all-round growths and shown a keen interest in strengthening the bilateral relationship for mutual benefits in the fields like tourism, commerce, commodities and others.

The meeting was also attended by Gujarat’s tourism and civil aviation minister Mr. Saurabhbhai Patel.

In the meeting, Mr. Sheikh had briefed Smt. Patel that the Emirates Airline is having flight-connectivity with over 145 destinations of the world over. Thus, his airline would like to ink a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Gujarat Tourism to attract and bring more tourists to Gujarat from the United States, Europe, Middle East, Africa and other plaes of the world over.

The Chief Minister had extended a formal invitation to Mr. Sheikh to participate in the forthcoming Vibrant Gujarat Global Investors’ Summit-2015, to be held in Gandhinagar in January-2015. She had also urged him to extend all possible help in flight bookings and others to the tourists arriving here from world over to attend the mega Vibrant Summit-2015.

The Chief Minister also assured the Emirates’ Sr. Vice President that her government would extend all possible help to him with Government India for commencing flight services from two other important cities – Vadodara and Surat, which are popularly known as the cultural capital of Gujarat and the diamon city respectively, of Gujarat.

Besides Mr. Sheikh, a special envoy from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Philadelphia’s Ambassador to India Ms Kanika Choudhary had also met Smt. Patel.

Ms Choudhary told Smt. Patel that State of Pennsylvania has a keen interest in setting up industrial units in Gujarat for mututal benefits.