DLRL contracted not to insult UAE rulers

It has emerged that when Transport for London (TfL) subsidiary Docklands Light Railway Limited (DLRL) signed a sponsorship deal with Emirates airline for a new cable car across the river Thames, it had to agree not to insult the Emirati ruling families. The contract, signed on 7 October 2011, has been published by TfL following a Freedom of Information request filed by Mayor Watch, which calls itself a ‘news and scrutiny site’. It concerns the ‘Emirates Air Line’, a gondola-style cable car in east London between the Greenwich peninsula and the Royal Docks. It opened in 2012 and has a sponsorship deal with Emirates worth £36m ($55m) over ten years.