Emirates
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Emirates introduces the A350 to Hangzhou
The A350 took its time to get into the Emirates fleet but it’s rapidly becoming central to the Dubai based airline’s operations. More and more destinations are getting flights served by these brand new Airbus A350-900s. A landmark new service for the Emirates A350s is their first service to mainland China, specifically to Hangzhou. Emirates…
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Emirates Adds Third Daily Flight to Dublin: New Morning Service Starts October 2025
Dublin was late to join the Emirates route network. I remember the airline launched this route while I was working in Dubai, around 2012 approximately. Flights from Dubai to Dublin have grown in popularity. Passenger volumes have been strong enough to allow Emirates to increase services first to twice daily and now adding a third…
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Emirates Flight EK328, Fourth Chinese Mainland Gateway Now Open
Emirates has a soft spot, as every airline does, for countries that drive high passenger and cargo volumes. As of 2020, China was very high on the list. Since then, traffic has been somewhat suppressed with some difficulties in recovering prior volumes. Emirates is giving it another go by expanding its reach to a new,…
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Emirates Returns To Damascus 13 Years After Last Service
A new phase is opening for the country of Syria. The newly established government has been trying to re-establish ties with foreign diplomacies and so far it seems they have gotten something right. They have been able to connect with the US, which has lifted some of its sanctions paving the way for over countries…
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Emirates 2024 FY Report: Profits Continue to Soar Higher
Its no surprise that Emirates has yet again turned a profit in its operations as an airline and as a group as a whole. What in some ways is surprising is the pace at which it continues to be able to achieve such results with profits soaring even higher in 2024. Let’s take a look…
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Which Emirates 777s Feature The Game Changer First Class?
For many years Emirates has been considered the “Game Changer” of commercial aviation. The innovations standards of service introduced by the Dubai based airline set the bar for many years. However competition, particularly around the gulf, has gotten fierce over over the past decade. Etihad and Qatar Airways have put on a real fight with…
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Which Airlines Use The Airbus A380?
No other airliner changed the standards of comfort for passengers as the Airbus A380 has done. The amount of space available to work with, particularly in premium cabins, allowed airlines to really get creative with their interiors. Some feature showers, some private apartments. Unfortunately though the plane hasn’t been commercially viable for many airlines. This…
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The Guide You Need To Emirates Skywards Frequent Flyer Programme
Emirates focuses quite a lot of attention, as all airlines, towards its frequent flyer and rewards program. Skywards, Emirates’ frequent flyer program, has become one of the most well known airline loyalty programs in the world. Today I’ll be covering how Skywards works and which are the tiers of the program. Which Are Emirates’ Skywards…
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Upgraded Experience From Seoul and Stansted – Emirates Brings in its Retrofitted Boeing 777
Emirates has taken on a massive operation to modernize its older aircraft’s interiors in order to extend their working life span and to remain competitive in terms of onboard product. Gradually a larger percentage of these aircraft have been returning to service and, therefore, more flights are now being served by these retrofitted planes. Two…
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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.…