Emirates to scale London Heathrow services up to *SEVEN* flights a day

Emirates is continuing to grow its operation at London Heathrow Airport, with the airline planning to operate up to seven flights a day between Dubai and Heathrow.

The airline will operate an additional five-a-week service to London Heathrow commencing on 31 October 2023, operating until 30 March 2024. This temporary service will meet market demand during the busy winter season and offer customers more travel choices.

Emirates currently serves London Heathrow with six daily A380 flights.

The additional flight will operate on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays and will be served by Emirates’ wide-body Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, fitted in a three-class configuration split between First, Business and Economy classes.

The planned operation is as follows:

EK41 DEPART DXB 13:20 ARRIVE LHR 17:20 
EK42 DEPART LHR 20:15 ARRIVE DXB 07:15+1 

Operates 31 October 2023 until 30 March 2024
Operates Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays in both direction 
Booked Equipment: Boeing 777-300ER 

In the United Kingdom, Emirates operates to Heathrow, Stansted, and Gatwick in the London Region, as well as Birmingham, Glasgow, Manchester and Newcastle.

The airline connects to the UK with 126 weekly flights, including:

• six times daily A380 service to London Heathrow
• three times daily A380 service to Gatwick
• twice daily service to Stansted
• three times daily A380 service to Manchester
• double daily service to Birmingham (including a daily A380 service
• daily service to Newcastle
•  daily A380 service to Glasgow.

This allows connection to the Emirates network at Dubai International Airport, connecting over 140 destinations worldwide.

Running the numbers

Emirates currently offers over 20,3000 (484 a flight, 6 times a day, 7 days a week)  seats a week (depending on the configuration of the A380 used). The extra flights will offer another 360 seats a flight – another 1,800 seats a week over the five flights.

If Emirates is saturating the capacity of the existing flights, the option to lease a slot from someone who isn’t using theirs is a good one to bump up capacity.

Even an extra 1,8000 seats or so is a lot of capacity to fill, along with the existing seats. But it seems that the market exists to support this.

It is going to offer passengers more choice to Dubai over the winter season, with timings to suit them.

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