It's no more "absolute madness" than the sheer volume of traffic on say LHR-JFK. Both are large O/D markets with great connections, however NYC has proportionally more P2P, DXB is more often a stop on the way to somewhere else. Emirates just have great connectivity, they're the number one choice if you're going long haul Eastwards. It's not as if they're reporting low load factors across the network.
Perhaps too many of us remember a daily stopping A300/A310 operation and part of our brains still asks "HOW??"
Last edited by Skipness One Foxtrot; 4th Apr 2016 at 00:40.
Reason: East/West mix up