Emirates launches the shortest distance A380 route

Emirates seem to have an abundance of Airbus A380 aircraft, and it seems the airline will deploy the double decker superjumbo plane on a 1 hour and 45 minute flight between Dubai and Kuwait.

Emirates Airbus A380 preparing for take off at London Heathrow – Image GhettoIFE.

I think Lucky could probably squeeze in at least one shower during that flight length, but he’d have fight to get to the shower in that flight time and have a meal too (although the term “challenge accepted” does come to mind)!

The flight will switch over from the currently used Boeing 777-200LR operated service to an Airbus A380 on flight pair EK857/858.

EK857 DEPART DXB 16:00 ARRIVE KWI 16:45 
EK858 DEPART KWI 18:25 ARRIVE DXB 21:10

Service bookable from today
Booked Equipment on this rotation: Airbus A380 

The service is available for booking through all classes (Economy, Business and First) after quickly examining the Emirates fare engine:

Outbound segment

Inbound segment

Emirates offer five flights a day between Dubai and Kuwait, operating a mixture of Boeing 777-300s, 777-300ER and now the Airbus A380.

The addition of an A380 will add more seats between the two cities, which Emirates have connected for 25 years.

However, that’s a lot of extra seats to dump on a route like such as this….