Both Qantas and Emirates are upping service frequency and swapping Boeing 747’s/777’s for Airbus A380 aircraft for London services.
Emirates will be bringing a second service, which will be EK03/04 (along with EK01/02) with a Dubai service, making it two A380 services a day to London Heathrow. The remaining services (EK05/06, 07/08) will remain on whatever other equipment Emirates can throw on (could be a 777 – could be something else, and knowing EK, that’s likely to happen).
EK03/04 Switches to A380’s from 15th June.
Qantas will be bringing more A380’s to Heathrow, with services to both Sydney and Melboune as and when the aircraft arrive between now and March.
In Q4 sometime, Qantas will recive it’s 7th A380, allowing a switch to a daily service on the Kangaroo hop between LHR-SIN-SYD.
When the 10th A380 arrives, LHR-SIN-MEL will go daily, but it’s dependant on Airbus getting their finger out and delivering aircraft.
Currently the service operates twice a week on LHR-SIN-MEL, which will go 5 times a week when aircraft 8 arrives, 6 times a week when aircraft 9 arrives, and then daily after aircraft 10 enters service.
And back to Emirates before I close this post up, with what some might think is mad, but Emirates will be deploying an A380 to work the MAN (Manchester) – DBX route.
The fact is that Emirates are pulling in bums on seats, and getting the positive revenue that’s associated and filling up more than 2 777’s a day looks positive.
Flights EK17/EK18 are due to commence A380 service from Manchester on September 1.
Of course, Singapore Airlines continue to operate A380 services on SQ317/SQ318 and SQ321/SQ322.
So if you want WhaleJets in the United Kingdom to the long and far flung destinations, Three Carriers have you covered!
