Economy Class & Beyond

Emirates to move Dubai-London to all A380 operations forward

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Emirates seem to have changed their plans to shift the Dubai to London route, with a move forward. EK007/EK008 will move forward as planned from the 28th October 2012 EK028/EK030 which was due to switch to A380 operations on 1st February 2013 will now instead switch on the 10th December 2012 The new timetable from 10th December is as follows: Dubai - London … [Read more...]

Qantas to throw in the London/Frankfurt towel and tie up with Emirates?

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Never state the impossible, as that is what could well be happening according to the Australian Financial Review. Qantas and Emirates are edging together in a move to counteract the losses that the international division of Qantas makes, whilst taking a defensive posture over Etihad Airways with its recent increase in Virgin Australia. The plans include a lot of Emirates … [Read more...]

Farnborough 2012 Day 2 – News Roundup

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Day Two of the Farnborough 2012 has flow - so let's see what big news has hit The big headline of the day goes to Cathay Pacific who have signed for 26 of the re-versioned Airbus A350-1000 - with Cathay ordering 10 on top of the original 16 A350-1000's ordered.  This makes Cathay Pacific the largest planned operator of the A350-1000 which will fly up to 8,400nm with the … [Read more...]

Emriates to introduce its A380 to Moscow

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The tendrils of Emirates continues to expand, this time with a change of services to Moscow. Emriates is planning to deploy a version of their Airbus A380 from 1st December 2012 to Moscow Domodedovo. The aircraft will be configured with 517 seats and replace one of the existing rotations that Emirates operate to Moscow. The revised changes shape up like this: Dubai … [Read more...]

Emirates to operate double daily A380’s on Dubai – New York

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Emirates have confirmed they will be uprating their A380 operations between Dubai and New York JFK. The current service currently operated by an A380 and a B777-300ER will switch to a Double A380 service. There's a bit of a wait to make this change as it's one of the first for 2013. The planned schedule is below: Dubai to New York - JFK EK203 DEPART DXB 02:00 … [Read more...]

Emirates introduce a varible fuel surcharge

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It seems even the darling of the Middle Eastern airlines - Emirates -  is suffering with the current round of fuel prices and is to institute fuel surcharges on its flights The airline will be introducing the surcharge for all tickets issued from 1st March 2012. Of course, like any surcharge it's comparatively confusing depending on you're going and the class you're … [Read more...]

Emirates to upscale Newcastle to Dubai route

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It seems there is demand from the North of England to the Middle East and beyond within announcement that Emirates is to upscale the route from an Airbus A330-200 to a Boeing 777-300ER This will be one of Emirates's Two Class 777-300ER's, with 42 Business Class Seats and 385 Economy class seats. This adds an extra 2000 seats a week (from the 278 seater Airbus … [Read more...]

Emirates to go daily to Lisbon

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That small and retiring carrier - Emirates - is expanding its sphere of influence and flights, this time expanding operations to Lisbon in Portugal. Operating as below: EK191  DEPART DXB  09:15 ARRIVE LIS 14:45 EK192 DEPART LIS 17:55  ARRIVE DXB 04:35+1 Commences 09/07/2012 Equipment Booked: Boeing 777-200ER The interesting thing is the launch of this … [Read more...]

Emirates expands in Glasgow – to go double-daily.

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Emirates is still expanding quite happily and have confirmed the launch of a second service to Glasgow, whilst re-gauging the other service it operates to the city. By doing this, Emirates will introduce 3-Class service to Glasgow and operate a daytime and evening flight to Emriates, with a night-time and morning arrival into Dubai. The new service will be make the Glasgow … [Read more...]