Dubai-based airline Emirates expects to resume flights to all “network destinations” by summer 2021, its chief operating officer said, after the coronavirus pandemic halted most global air travel.

“I think we can easily say by summer 2021, we'll be serving 100 per cent of our network destinations,” Adel al-Redha told CNBC.

Redha said the airline will serve 143 destinations by summer next year, down from 157 before the pandemic. “Obviously the [...] frequency of flights per day will depend on the demand and some of the restrictions that will need to unwind from some airports and some countries.”

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