100th A380 to be delivered on 3rd November.
Dubai Air Show will begin on 12th November. Maybe we'll see a new order from EK.

29 October 2017
BHX (EK039/040) from daily 2-class B77W to daily 2-class A380
BRU (EK181/182) new second daily with B77W
TUN (EK747/748) from 6 weekly to daily B77W
CAI (EK925/926) from 3 weekly to daily B77W
ZAG (EK129/130) from daily to 5 weekly B77W
ATH (EK103/104) flight suspended

17 November 2017
MLE (EK660/661) new thrice weekly with B77W

01 December 2017
GVA (EK083/084) from daily B77L to daily B77W
BNE (EK430/431) new third daily with B77L

08 December 2017
ARN (EK155/156) new trice weekly with B77W

13 December 2017
ALG (EK757/758) from 6 weekly to daily B77W

25 December 2017
MLE (EK660/661) from thrice weekly to daily B77W

01 January 2018
HND (EK312/313) from daily B77L to daily B77W

25 March 2018
MEL (EK408/409) from daily B77W to daily A380
SYD (EK416/417) new fourth daily with A380
ATH (EK103/104) flight resumption with daily B77W
HND (EK312/313) from daily B77W to 5 weekly B77W + 2 weekly B77L

what came of the rumour that GLA was being upgraded to A380?

To be officially announced in November, apparently.

Surely a bit of work on the taxis and aprons required and I guess a new d/d jetbridge be needed on the current or adjacent stand to accommodate.

Any idea if they're upgrading the earlys or lates?? or going with all 14 weeklys.

Be great to see this regularly.

A planning application has been submitted for over £3m worth of expansion to the west pier. It's not been revealed officially what this is yet but it could well be a double air bridge.

100th A380 delivered with a special livery
https://www.emirates.com/media-centr...-to-its-fleet#

At the Dubai air show, Emirates have ordered 40 B787-10, deliveries from 2022

http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articl...eamliner-order

Emirates to launch daily London Stansted flights from 8th June 2018 with B77W
https://www.emirates.com/media-centr...rom-june-2018#

Strange that aircraft will be 7 hours on the ground at STN.

Maybe the scheduling is to match Dubai connections. Other Emirates UK - Dubai flights are normally scheduled to either depart UK around 1400 to arrive Dubai around midnight or depart around 2100 to arrive Dubai 0700, so the second schedule timing may fit.

The majority of Emirates flights are timed to meet the bank of connections at Dubai, I believe Emirates have three daily wave of flights all timed for onward connections.

Not all banks at DXB consist of exactly the same makeup.

The new service to STN has been carefully planned to operate with the best connectivity in & out of those banks at DXB for the STN catchment market.

This reflects in the 7 hour layover & indicates even 6 months from launch that EK have quite precise knowledge & planning for this service.

Witness too a/c with the brand new F class allocated to the service from day one.

Notwithstanding the under belly cargo uplift expected & which will be heavily marketed by Emirates Sky Cargo this is a winning announcement today.

Maybe its the F fitted 773 from GLA to be replaced by an A380 there.... 😂

Good news with the A380 then & if that is the case then excellent...

But you rather part miss the finesse being explained.

Emirates banned from Tunisia.
 

Emirates has been banned from Tunisian over accusations of 'racism' after Tunisian women were 'randomly prevented from boarding Emirates flights.


https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.b...frica-42474716

Tunisia bans Emirates
 

The Tunisian government has banned Emirates Airlines from it's airports and airspace in a dispute over the acceptance of Tunisian nationals travelling to the UAE.

Link on BBC,

Tunisia bans UAE Emirates airline from landing in Tunis - BBC News

Airlineroute are reporting some 77L conversions to two class 38J/268Y.

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...ervice-in-s18/

Some routes quoted are not all long range either with BOM & KHI listed which for UK purposes brings into the obvious scenario of the possibility of restoring BHX's third flight (which only struggles outside of school holidays), a Manchester 4th flight, a Glasgow third flight, Newcastle second flight or even another Gatwick also of course adding Cargo capacity.

The routes announced indicate only two to three aircraft but at 306 seats a pretty useful configuration for additional frequencies or new routes.

I can't find any official sources but I suppose they have obtained the seat-map data in GDS?

EK 777 2 class
 

Just found out,due to seat change shown on Manage My Booking, that my DXB/RGN flight at the weekend is a 3 class 777-300 on a 2 class route.
When I booked it was a 2 class 777-300,then it changed to a 3 class 777-200LR and it has changed again this week.
This is the third time it has happened to me in 12 months , on different sectors, where a 3 class (front cabin blocked) is used on a 2 class route
It is pretty obvious that they have too many 3 class hanging around.

It's more likely that the DXB-RGN flight had poor loads, so they've switched it to 3 class, and used the 2 class on another route that had better loads in J/Y.

I'll post again on the RGN load...but my recent BHX/DXB sector was an A380 3 class on the BHX 2 class route!

Summer 18
 

https://www.routesonline.com/news/38...as-of-28dec17/

The usual decreases for Ramadan although some are permanent such as Dublin - I thought the 380 was going to start or is this in preparation with both flights going three class with the next step the 380 on the lunchtime flight?

Manchester will see the 77W on EK21/22 for around six weeks with BCN and DUS getting the same.

I assume NCL and BHX will get three class aircraft during the period as even with the best will in the world 615 seats on EK39 during May and June is going to be a challenge other than the May school holiday.

ssflyer

Since mid October only one three class A388 @ BHX I believe which was around the snow closures at BHX so it has reduced on the BHX route since the demise of EK41 (as you would hope) but you appear to be right that the spare aircraft it does appear that they are mainly 3 class but they do dominate the fleet compared to the two class.

Although saying that EK found a couple of two class A388's this week for MAN on EK21 but no doubt load related at this time of year.