Emirates is to return to Tokyo Haneda as life returns to normal. Or whatever can be best described as normal.
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Emirates Boeing 777-300ER – Image, Economy Class and Beyond.
The Middle Eastern airline will resume its Haneda service on the 2nd of April. The planned operation is as follows:
EK312 DEPART DXB 07:50 ARRIVE HND 22:35 EK313 DEPART HND 00:05 ARRIVE DXB 06:20 Commences 2nd April 2023 Operate Daily Booked Equipment: Emirates Boeing 777-300ER "Game Changer" three-class aircraft
Emirates “Game Changer” Boeing 777-300ER features six enclosed First Class suites, 42 Business Class in a 2-3-2 configuration and 306 Economy Class in the usual 3-4-3 layout.
The type is currently deployed to Brussels, Geneva, Nice, London Stansted, Frankfurt and Zurich, with Tokyo Haneda being its first Asian deployment.
So why now? According to Emirates, it is to support Japan’s post-pandemic travel and tourism revival, serving the surging demand for international travel and increasing inbound traffic from key markets across its global network.
Emirates’ return to Haneda will further boost the airline’s operations in the market, alongside its daily A380 service to Tokyo-Narita and a daily Boeing 777 service to Osaka, increasing capacity to Japan by a third.
For those passengers needing to travel onwards from Tokyo and Osaka Emirates also offers passengers access to 26 additional domestic cities in Japan and 10 regional points via Tokyo and Osaka, through its codeshare partnership with Japan Airlines.
Adding those missing lines
As Emirates looks to increase its network coverage for 2023 (as well as bring its retrofit programme into high gear), the focus remains on rebuilding the network.
The airline served Tokyo-Haneda since 2013 – only suspending service due to obvious reasons over the past few years.
With trade and travel on the pick-up (and adding back the convenient option of not having to enjoy the long train ride from Chiba Prefecture, the Haneda option is going to be interesting to a lot of passengers – even if the timing means you are arriving well into a Tokyo evening.