Originally Posted by
Banana Joe
Emirates already have some flights out of a couple of European airports to North America. Malpensa and Athens if I am not mistaken.
But it isnt much better going from LHR - MXP - JFK than going LHR - DXB - JFK, you are still throwing in an extra stopover.
Unless Emirates get rights to fly direct to the US from the UK how are they going to be much competition to US or UK airlines on that route?.
Also I thought that the latest thinking in the industry was that we were moving away from the Hub model to direct city to city flights.