Emirates continues to add capacity to destinations, with a 3rd daily flight to be operated between Dubai and Cape Town in South Africa.
Emirates Boeing 777-300ER landing at Birmingham Airport – Image, Economy Class and Beyond
This will be an expansion of the current Emirates service operated twice a day to three times a day.
Emiates will add another Boeing 777-300ER to Cape Town – adding another 360 seats a day between the two cities.
The new flight – scheduled as EK778/EK779 will provide a later departure from Dubai, and a late return from Cape Town. This will be in the air from the 4th July 2016.
The combined timetable – including the new flight – is shown below:
Dubai to Cape Town EK772 DEPART DXB 03:50 ARRIVE CPT 11:35 EK770 DEPART DXB 08:50 ARRIVE CPT 16:30 EK778 DEPART DXB 10:50 ARRIVE CPT 18:30 Cape Town to Dubai EK773 DEPART CPT 13:25 ARRIVE DXB 01:10+1 EK771 DEPART CPT 18:05 ARRIVE DXB 05:30+1 EK779 DEPART CPT 20:05 ARRIVE DXB 07:30+1 Commences 4th July 2016 Booked Equipment on all flights: Boeing 777-300ER Operates Daily Data: Airlineroute
Emirates game is one of connections and capacity – by adding more connections through its Dubai hub and timing its capacity well, the can add more flights to feed back into its hub.
And as for capacity? Emirates will now operate 1080 seats a day between Dubai and Cape Town… or 7560 seats a week.
That’s still a lot of seats to fill.
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