More Demand Than Expected – Emirates Ups Services to Antananarivo in Spring 2025

It is rare that Emirates gets a new route passenger demand figures completely wrong. The airline has expanded its network constantly over its existence and, in most cases, has been very successful in spotting new opportunities for additional services. That has been the case even with one of the latest route network additions, Antananarivo Madagascar. Emirates is, in fact, ready to up its services on flight EK707 to cope with strong demand.

Now, How Did Emirates EK707 Dubai Antananarivo Operate Again?

Flight EK707 is part of what in technical terms is called a fifth freedom operation. That means, in this specific case, that Emirates is operating the flight between Dubai and Antananarivo with a stopover in the Seychelles. The flight then continues onwards to Madagascar.

Currently, as you can read all about in this other post, Emirates operates flight EK707 from Dubai to Antananarivo four times per week. However, that is soon to change.

Strong Demand Pushing Emirates to Increase Frequencies For EK707

For the joy of Emirates management the demand has been particularly strong on this new sector. The fact that it’s a fifth freedom flight with the second leg not all that long means that there isn’t the necessity to completely fill the aircraft with Antananarivo-bound passengers in Dubai. The load can be shared with another heavily leisure-skewed destination such as the Seychelles.

Demand though has proven to be stronger than what Emirates had initially forecasted. Four weekly services are no longer sufficient to keep up with the number of tickets being sold on the route. Therefore, the Dubai-based airline is looking to increase its frequencies for flight EK707 April 2nd 2025. Flight Dubai Antananarivo EK707 will therefore pass from a 4x weekly schedule to a 6x weekly frequency.

Flights will operate every day of the week except for Mondays, which will be the only day in which flight EK707 will operate from Dubai to the Seychelles without continuing onwards to Antananarivo.

No Change in Sight in Terms of Aircraft Type

What will not change though is the aircraft type on this route. Emirates has, so far, operated the flight using its Boeing 777-300ERs and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. The only other aircraft it has capable of operating in and out of the Seychelles is its new A350-900s. It has too few of them and, generally, airlines tend to use older planes on leisure services such as EK707.