In an interesting development, the Italian government has granted Emirates “Fifth Freedom” flying rights to operate between Milan-Malpensa and New York-JFK.
The service will be a continuation of the Dubai – Milan service, operated by a Boeing 777-300ER
The schedule looks a little like this:
EK205 DEPART DXB 09:05 ARRIVE MXP 13:50 DEPART MXP 16:00 ARRIVE JFK 19:00 EK206 DEPART JFK 22:20 ARRIVE MXP 12:15+1 DEPART MXP 14:00 ARRIVE DXB 22:05 All times local Operates from 01/OCTOBER/2013 Equipment Booked: Boeing 777-300ER
The route will go head to head with Alitalia, Delta and American Airlines, who offer Economy and Business Class products. Delta offers Economy Comfort and Alitalia offers Premium Economy.
Emirates will offer a 3-Class service, offering First, Business and Economy Cabins, configured in
- 8 passengers in first
- 42 in business
- 310 in economy class.
As well as operating a 1-stop flight, Emirates offer a twice daily flight to JFK direct from Dubai with Airbus A380’s.
All told it means that, from the autumn, Emirates will be operating three daily flights linking Dubai with New York. The one-stopper via Milan will complement Emirates twice daily non-stop A380 services.
Any more information such as pricing?
Will keep an eye open this week. Hopefully it’ll be competitive….
Pretty cool! They even used the same flight numbers EK205/206 from their terminated JFK-Hamburg-DXB route from five years ago.
The timing on EK206 must be wrong. 9:45 stopover in MXP and then negative flight time to DXB doesn’t seem right.
Oops. Adjusted.