Emirates EK flights

Saturday 21 November 2009 (UAE)

Emirates Airlines EK

Emirates Airlines general information

Emirates Airlines (airline code EK) is a Dubai based carrier launched in October 1985 with first flights to Karachi in Pakistan and Mumbai (then Bombay) in India. At the end of February 2009, EK had flights on routes to 101 cities in 61 different countries, with about 100 flights a week just to the UK (91 in January 2007). From 14 October 2008, EK started transferring passenger arrivals and departures from Dubai Airport Terminal 1 (T1) to the new Terminal 3 (T3), starting with GCC and USA flights. Passengers on flights to other destinations were gradually phased over to T3 from October to December 2008 after which all EK departures from, and arrivals to, Dubai operated out of T3 (most other airlines operate from Terminal 1). The actual flights went to and from the new Concourse 2 connected to Terminal 3 but confusingly, a few Emirates aircraft still arrived at, or departed from, Concourse 1 (the Sheikh Rashid Terminal) which meant that passengers had to scurry back and forth from T3. See the Dubai Airport information with a more detailed explanation of the terminal vs concourse difference.

Skytrax World Airline Awards 2009

Emirates Airlines was in 5th place in the Skytrax Airline of the Year 2009 awards (Cathay Pacific won the top gong, and Etihad was in 7th spot). Emirates also got the top spot for the Best Inflight Entertainment award.

List of Emirates Airlines EK flight destinations from Dubai International Airport DXB

Abidjan (2006)
Abu Dhabi AUH
Accra
Addis Ababa (27 Mar 2006)
Adelaide ADL (rumour)
Ahmedabad (28 Oct 2007)
Alexandria HBE (15 May 2005, suspended 10 Sep 2008)
Algiers ALG (possibly)
Amman
Athens
Auckland AKL
Bahrain
Baku GYD (airport code was BAK)
Bandar Abbas BND (cancelled 1991?)
Bangalore (29 Oct 2006)
Bangkok BKK
Barcelona BCN (cargo only, passenger flights rumoured to start one day)
Beijing (2006)
Beirut
Berlin (under consideration)
Birmingham
Bombay (now Mumbai)
Brisbane

Cairo
Calcutta (now Kolkata)
Calicut / Kozhikode (01 Jul 2008)
Cape Town (30 March 2008)
Casablanca
Cebu (CEB, possibly)
Chennai
Christchurch
Clark (Diosdado Macapagal International Airport DMIA CRK, possibly)
Cochin
Colombo¹
Copenhagen CPH (planned but start date put off after Danish cartoon controversy)
Damascus
Damman
Dar es Salaam
Delhi
Dhaka DAC
Doha
Durban DUR (01 Dec 2008 01 Oct 2009)
Dusseldorf

Entebbe
Frankfurt
Geneva
Glasgow
Guangzhou CAN (01 Jul 2008)
Hamburg
Ho Chi Minh City SGN
Hong Kong
Houston (03 Dec 2007)
Hyderabad
Islamabad
Istanbul
Jakarta
Jeddah
Johannesburg
Kano (possibly)
Karachi
Khartoum (2007?)
Kochi (2002)
Kolkata / Calcutta (2006)
Kozhikode / Calicut (01 Jul 2008)
Kuala Lumpur
Kuwait City

Lagos
Lahore
Larnaca
Lilongwe (cargo only)
London-Gatwick
London-Heathrow
Los Angeles LAX (01 Sep 2008 01 Oct 2008)
Luanda LAD (02 Aug 2009 25 Oct 2009)
Luqa
Madras
Madrid MAD (rumour)
Male¹
Malta
Manchester
Manila
Mauritius
Melbourne
Milan-Malpensa
Moroni HAH (suspended Jan 2000)
Moscow-Domodedovo
Mumbai
Munich
Muscat
Nagoya NGO (03 Jun 2006, cancelled 28 Mar 2009)
Nairobi
New Delhi
New York-JFK
Newcastle UK NCL (01 Sep 2007)
Nice (via Rome, non-stop from 01 Dec 2008)

Osaka-Kansai KIX
Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Perth
Peshawar (suspended)²
Phnom Penh PNH (rumour, unlikely)
Rome-Fiumicino
Riyadh
San Francisco (26 Oct 2008 20 Nov 2008 15 Dec 2008)
Sanaa
Saigon (now Ho Chi Minh City)
Sao Paulo GRU (01 Oct 2007)
Seoul-Incheon ICN
Seychelles
Shanghai-Pudong
Singapore SIN
Stuttgart (under consideration)
Sydney
Tehran-Imam Khomeini
Thiruvananthapuram (2006)
Toronto YYZ (29 Oct 2007)
Tripoli
Tunis (29 Oct 2006)
Venice (01 July 2007)
Vienna
Zurich

Male and Colombo code-share flights with Sri Lankan airlines no longer in operation.
Peshawar flights diverted to Islamabad from mid August 2009 after rocket attacks at Peshawar Airport, and an explosion at the only 5 star hotel in Peshawar. Flights to resume in November 2009 (not confirmed)?

Emirates A380 routes

Auckland (01 Feb 2009)
Bangkok (01 Jun 2009)
Birmingham (09 Sep 2009) - one flight only to celebrate Birmingham International Airport's 70th anniversary.
London Heathrow (01 Dec 2008)
New York (01 Aug 2008 - 01 June 2009), after June 2009, the double decker air bus will fly to Toronto and Bangkok, and a B777-300ER will take over on the DXB-JFK route. The A380 might return to the New York route in early 2010.
Paris (01 Feb 2010) - two flights per day Dubai to Paris, the A380 for the morning flight - EK073 departs DXB 0800, arrives CDG 1225 (press release 24 June 2009)
Rome (Jan 2010 - unconfirmed)
Seoul (Nov 2009)
Singapore (Dec 2009)
Sydney (01 Feb 2009)
Toronto (01 Jun 2009)

Emirates planned to have 20 A380s in service by the end of 2010 but that has been revised to 15 (11 November 2009 report in Gulf News).

Emirates Airline aircraft numbers (valid 31 March 2009)

Emirates fleet size of 132 wide-bodied aircraft including 4 Boeing A380 aircraft (another 7 expected by 31 March 2010).
Emirates passenger numbers through Dubai Airport about 22 million for 2008, and 20 million for 2007.

Emirates Airlines history and timeline

01 December 2008 - first Emirates A380 flight, to London Heathrow.
14 October 2008 - Emirates starts transferring arrivals and departures to the new Terminal 3 at Dubai Airport.
23 October 1985 - Emirates Airline officially launched by Shaikh Maktoum Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, and Deputy Prime Minister of the UAE.

Last update Wednesday 11-Nov-2009

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