Emirates MXP-JFK
 

Emirates to launch first transatlantic route with daily Milan-NY service

Apr. 8, 2013Aaron Karp | ATW Plus



Emirates will become a direct competitor to US and European airlines in the transatlantic market by launching daily Milan Malpensa-New York JFK flights from Oct. 1. ...

EK have been flying transatlantic for the past 8 years if my memory serves me correctly and one service was DXB-HAM-JFK, so nothing new I'm afraid.:=

They dropped HAM-JFK several years ago, but EK have been flying direct DXB-JFK for many years with A340, 777 and now A380 twice daily.

Is this the beginning of the end for such major airlines as BA, AF and LH ?

Is this the beginning of the end for such major airlines as BA, AF and LH ?
 

FRying, you must know more about this than I do, because I can't see how EK flying Milan-JFK is going to hurt AF, BA or LH much. Apart from the pax originating in Milan, of course.

It'll give American and Delta something to think about. Alitalia switched off brain a long time ago.
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It may do if EK start a DXB-LHR-JFK route or DXB-FRA-JFK or DXB-CDG-JFK.

Do any of you guys know what aircraft they will be using for the service?

Boeing 777-300ER

Don't see what's unusual about that PIA serve New York out of Manchester

The issue is not about where you fly from or to, rather its a case of wether you've been granted 5th/6th freedom rights to pickup passengers and carry them onwards!