With the objective of meeting the growing demand for business and leisure travel, the Dubai-based airline has been gradually rebuilding its route network and advancing its strategy to optimize its presence in key markets.
Currently, Emirates flies to 115 destinations around the world. By the end of July it will have recovered about 90% of its pre-pandemic network, operating 880 weekly services in 124 cities. It will also start using its A380 fleet again this summer, flying to 15 cities on 129 weekly services.
Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Emirates Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said: «Emirates is committed to keeping Dubai connected to businesses and communities around the world. We are working hard to rebuild our network and ensure access to more destinations. We are seeing strong signs of pent-up demand where restrictions have been eased.»
Flights and destinations
The airline will resume services to eight cities in July. In August it will increase capacity and add frequencies.
The flights resumed in July are as follows:
- Venice on July 1
- Phuket, Nice, Orlando and Mexico City on July 2
- Lyon on July 9
- Malta on July 14.
- Miami, starting on July 22.
Emirates will also add frequencies to 12 cities in Europe, Africa and North America: Munich, Dusseldorf and Hamburg; Zurich; Vienna; Prague; Madrid; Stockholm; Brussels; Lisbon; Chicago and Tunis.
On the other hand, it will expand its participation in the US to more than 70 weekly flights, offering more than 26,000 seats. Destinations are Boston, Chicago, New York (JFK and Newark), Houston, Dallas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Washington DC, and Orlando. The airline is also increasing its Milan-New York and Athens-Newark transatlantic operations.
However, there are several destinations that continue, for the moment, outside the plans of the Emirati giant. According to data obtained by Aviacionline through Cirium, the destinations that do not have a return date in the Emirates network are the following: Adelaide, Auckland, Beijing, Buenos Aires, Christchurch, Edinburgh, Istanbul (Sabiha Gokcen), Fort Lauderdale, London (Gatwick and Stansted), Newcastle, Porto, Phnom Penh, Rio de Janeiro, St. Petersburg, Santiago de Chile and Tokyo (Haneda).
