Less than maximum capacity and a recent 10% drop ex NCL, cant see things expanding there within the next year anyway

Emirates will also need to take into account the demand for cargo capacity as well as pax load factors to decide on any extra flights/larger aircraft.

Cabincrewe, as it says above, the decline in August was primarily due to the, I guess unavoidable, use of the smaller aircraft which has nearly 70 fewer economy seats on a significant number of flights (i.e. 27% fewer). I predict we will see some growth return in September and given last September seat factor was just over 85% on the route, that will be a good performance. Emirates can still achieve significant growth at Newcastle and grow the total market, they now need to deploy the 777 to achieve this and one day this will happen.

New US Routes
 

Dallas/Fort Worth effective 2nd Feb and Seattle/Tacoma effective 1st Mar. Both flights operated by a 777.

EK will add some frequencies to Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar. This should be another boost for the UK flights.
Emirates upgrades Pakistan network with additional services to Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar | Emirates | About Emirates | News

Starting with DFW in early February IAH will be reduced from twice to one daily (or a flight from IAH will be transfered to DFW).

Start date for the A380 to MUC moved forward to 25th November. On the other hand the start date for the A380 to KUL moved back to 1st January.
Emirates

A6-EGG, a B777-300ER, was delivered on 11th October.

Tomorrow EK will receive their 16th A380 and by June 2013 there will be 37 A380 in the fleet.

Going ATH-DXB-JNB in a couple of weeks. First Class return is over €5,500. As the stopover in DXB is longer than 6 hrs we are entitled to a hotel room. We didn't want to get the next flight but one 4 hours later that would give us a decent night's sleep. They are saying that they will not allow this we will have to stay in the 1st class lounge. We had this in March this year and they allowed it (after some discussion).

We wanted to spend a couple of days in Dubai but because we were splitting the flight it was going to be €1,000 more - just the flight not hotac.

I wrote to head office (snail mail) months ago about both of these points. Have I had a reply? :mad:

Half year net profit down to US$ 225 million
Emirates, the world

EK orders 50 B777-300ER with Option for 20 B777-300ER
Emirates Places Order for 50 Boeing 777-300 ERs with Options for 20 777-300 ERs Valued at US$26 Billion | Emirates | About Emirates | News

Changes 2012

Most destinations with more than 1 daily flight. Just mentioned the changes. Example: one of three daily flights to KUL upgraded from B773 to A380; the other flights to KUL remain unchanged)

1st January
DXB-KUL daily B773 > A380
DXB-PRG daily A332 > B773
DXB-HAM daily B772 > B77W
DXB-CPH daily A332 > B772

3rd January
new: GIG-EZE daily B77W

9th January
new: DUB daily A332

24th January
LHR daily B77W > A380

1st February
SIN from 19 weekly to 21 weekly (all B77W)
IAH reduce from double daily to daily B77L
new: DFW daily B77L
CMN daily A345 > B77W
ACC-ABJ daily A343 > A345
NBO daily A332 > A343
new: LUN-HRE 5 weekly A332

1st March
new: SEA daily B77W

25th March
LHR daily B77W > A380
CDG daily B773 > B77W
MUC daily A343 > B773
VCE from daily A343 to double daily A343
CDG from 14 weekly to 18 weekly (daily A380 + 11 weekly B77W)
TUN daily A332 > A345
ADD-EBB daily A345 will split to ADD daily A332 + EBB daily A332

1st May
PEK daily A345 > B77W
A345 to ???

1st June
GLA daily B77W (2 class) > B77W (3 class)
MAN daily A332 > B77W
DUS daily A343 > B77W

4th June
new: SGN daily A332 (2 class)

1st July
NRT daily B77W > A380
AMS from daily B77W to double daily B77W (slot request)

1st August
ACC-ABJ daily A345 > B77W
A345 to ???
CPT daily B772/B77W > B77W
BKK daily B773 > B77W
ATH daily A332 > B773

1st September
MAN daily B77W (2 class) > B77W (3 class)

1st October
MEL-AKL daily B77W > A380
DME daily A345 > A380 (rumour)
FRA daily A332 > B77W
HKG daily A332 > B77W
CPH daily B772 > B77W
LCA-MLA daily A332 > B772

28th October
CDG from 18 weekly to 19 weekly (daily A380 + 12 weekly B77W)
LHR daily B773 > A380 (rumour)
LGW daily B772 > B773
BLR daily A343 > B772
SGN daily A332 > B77W (2 class)
LOS daily A345 > B77W
NCE daily A343 > A345
VCE double daily A343 > double daily A345 (planned)


1st December
CMB-SIN daily B773 > B77W (2 class)
TUN daily A345 > B773
LED daily A343 > A345

1st February
DUB daily A332 > ???
NBO daily A343 > ???

1st March
DAR daily A345 > ???

2011 EK received 5 A380 (JNB, MUC, FCO, KUL) and 11 B77W.

All 8 A343 will leave the fleet along with some A332 by the end of 2012/early 2013.


All information subject to change. Errors and omissions excepted.

One must wonder what effect a Middle East direct service from EDI - under new EDI owners - would have on NCL and GLA services? Remembering that EDI outperforms any competing flights to anywhere from both EK airports.

Really? Spain against Glasgow? *any* Joe are you being selective in your trolling again? Naughty! Any attempt to kick off a GLA vs EDI will get slapped down by the mods. However it's worth reiterating that Emirates are introducing First suites from Glasgow over the summer, which is a.....*cough* first.

EDI has not managed long haul well with Delta managing to fail at both ATL and JFK and even Air Transat throwing the towel in. Is it too much to ask that Scotland's lowland airports attempt to be complementary rather than tribally local?

And from other posts it looks as if Berlin was the clanger in that theory, but its not really for this forum is it....?

Second daily for Glasgow confirmed
 

With effect 1 June, A340-300 evening flight, EK25/6. Nice one!

Overshoot at Glasgow
 

Not exactly news, but in the gusty conditions this weekend, The Glasgow flight encounters a little windshear. Complete with Glaswegian commentary. Must say that it demonstrates the power of those GE's. :ooh:


OTEA

Barcelona
 

Spain is their latest target with Barcelona to be added in July and a second daily Madrid but no softly softly approach with the A332 - straight to 777's. Taken from another site but already in GDS

"EK185 DXB 0655 BCN 1200 77W Daily (From JUL03)
EK185 BCN 1640 DXB 0100 77W Daily

EK141 DXB 0750 MAD 1345 77W Daily (already existing)
EK142 MAD 1525 DXB 0040 77W Daily (already existing)

EK143 DXB 1425 MAD 2020 77W Daily (From JUL01)
EK144 MAD 2210 DXB 0715 77W Daily"

Rumour has it Brussels and Stockholm are possibly next.

There are about 5-8 A332's becoming free in the next nine months and with one already reported as parked up I wonder if new homes have been found
for these?



Pete

Suprised it took them this long to go to Barcelona, as its such a huge market. No suprise their going straight to the 77W.

Add this this its almost certainly the city hit least worse by the Spanish property boom collapse and Spains shrinking economy.

Peter,

Yes A330s, A6-EAB/C/L , already been withdrawn from EK services or about to be.

Nigel

EK at Glasgow
 

The recently announced second daily A343 from 1 June will be upgraded to a B77W from 1 Jan 2013. Go Glasgow!

STN
 

I am so surprised that Emirates have not announced or are even considering a Stansted flight, this would have EK operating from all of the major London airports covering the noth, south and west with STN having a large catchment area with not only north and east London but also Cambridgeshire and east Anglia.

There was talk a few years ago about EK operating an economy only flight into STN but surely with all this recent expansion especially ex UK and with all these aircraft on order surely a STN flight must be in the pipeline.

Plus the Emirates Stadium is just down the M11, well not far off anyway :-)

Just booked myself on board EK40 (BHX - DXB) in June. Just wondering whether the 773 is 2 class or 3 class on this flight?

Cheers

NC

Looks like only BHX and NCL will have 2 class configs, whereas GLA, MAN, LHR and LGW all 3 class.