Emirates Airline 阿聯酋航空剛剛宣布，他們將暫停所有客運航班。
自 2020 年 3 月 25 日（星期三）起，阿聯酋航空將暫時中止客運航班，而且沒有確認的復飛日子，僅表示將於「在條件允許的情況下」恢復。
Emirates 解釋說，他們一直在努力維持客運航班的時間，但現在已經到了世界各地旅行禁令，限制和國家/地區封鎖變得難以應付的地步。阿聯酋航空 CEO HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum 說：
“The world has literally gone into quarantine due to the COVID-19 outbreak. This is an unprecedented crisis situation in terms of breadth and scale: geographically, as well as from a health, social, and economic standpoint. Until January 2020, the Emirates Group was doing well against our current financial year targets. But COVID-19 has brought all that to a sudden and painful halt over the past 6 weeks.
As a global network airline, we find ourselves in a situation where we cannot viably operate passenger services until countries re-open their borders, and travel confidence returns. By Wednesday 25 March, although we will still operate cargo flights which remain busy, Emirates will have temporarily suspended all its passenger operations. We continue to watch the situation closely, and as soon as things allow, we will reinstate our services.
Emirates Group has a strong balance sheet, and substantial cash liquidity, and we can, and will, with appropriate and timely action, survive through a prolonged period of reduced flight schedules, so that we are adequately prepared for the return to normality.”
「由於COVID-19的爆發，世界實際上已進入隔離區。就廣度和規模而言，這是前所未有的危機情況：在地理上以及從健康，社會和經濟的角度來看。截至2020年1月，阿聯酋航空集團在實現我們當前財政年度目標方面表現良好。但是在過去的6周中，COVID-19使這一切突然而痛苦地停止了。
作為一家全球性的網絡航空公司，我們發現自己處於這樣一種局面：在各國重新開放邊界並恢復旅行信心之前，我們無法有效地運營客運服務。到3月25日星期三，儘管我們仍將運營仍在忙碌的貨運航班，但阿聯酋航空將暫時中止其所有旅客運營。我們將繼續密切關注局勢，並在情況允許時盡快恢復服務。
阿聯酋航空集團擁有強大的資產負債表和可觀的現金流動性，我們可以並且將採取適當及時的行動，在長期減少的航班時刻表中生存下來，以便為恢復正常狀態做好充分的準備。」
