Emirates have confirmed they will be uprating their A380 operations between Dubai and New York JFK.
The current service currently operated by an A380 and a B777-300ER will switch to a Double A380 service.
There’s a bit of a wait to make this change as it’s one of the first for 2013.
The planned schedule is below:
Dubai to New York – JFK
EK203 DEPART DXB 02:00 ARRIVE JFK 07:20 EK201 DEPART DXB 08:30 ARRIVE JFK 13:50 Operates as A380 service on both flights from 01/01/13 Subject to change.
New York JFK to Dubai
EK204 DEPART JFK 10:40 ARRIVE DXB 0810+1 EK202 DEPART JFK 23:00 ARRIVE DXB 2030+1 Operates as A380 service on both flights from 01/01/13 Subject to change.
The current EK203/204 rotation is operated by a Boeing 777-300ER, and remains as timetabled for now.
Another option for those who like their aircraft big. Very big….
I wonder if they have enough load to justify two big birds?
I do wonder this some days. A mixture of business logic, predicted loads and maybe… some capacity dumping going…
Emirates must be doing something right to operate their massive fleet of A380’s…