Emirates flights from Dubai

03 Jun 2013

The airline launches daily non-stop flights from Dubai to Tokyo International Airport (Haneda Airport). This move increases Emirates' commitment to Japan.

March 2013

Emirates commences daily flights to Algiers, Algeria. This route is Emirate's 22nd destination in Africa.

01 Mar 2013

Emirates increases the frequency of Dubai - Perth flights to 21 flights weekly.

The airline inaugurates its 3rd daily service between Dubai and Jakarta with a 2 class Boeing 777-300ER.

06 Feb 2013

Emirates introduces the Dubai - Warsaw route. The service will operate using a Airbus A330-200 and flights operate on a daily basis.

05 Feb 2013

The 13th weekly flight between Dubai and the Seychelles becomes operational.

01 Feb 2013

The airline introduces a Boeing 777-300ER aircraft on the route between Dubai and Dar es Salaam. This upgrade increases the available seats to 1400 per week.

Emirates increases the frequency of the Dubai - Adelaide route to a daily service.

The airline upgrades the services to Zambia (Lusaka) and Zimbabwe (Harare) by replacing the 237-seat Airbus A330-200 with a 354-seat Boeing 777-300ER. This change adds more than 1,600 seats a week to the routes.

The frequency of flights from Dubai to Peshawar is increased from 3 to 5 weekly.

01 Jan 2013

A third daily service has been introduced between Dubai and Manila. The new flight will also be operated by a 2-class Boeing 777-300ER and will increase the capacity on route by 50 percent.

Dec 2012 - Jan 2013

Between 29 December and 15 January, 4 extra round-trip flights are added to the Dubai to Bangkok route. These are operated on board a 2-class Boeing 777-300ER aircraft.

11 Dec 2012

The airline incorporates a direct daily flight from Dubai to Phuket

05 Dec 2012

African low-cost carrier Fastjet announces that it is engaged in talks with Emirates over a potential partnership.

Emirates introduces a Dubai - Lyon service. The service is set to operate 5 times a week on a Airbus A340-500.

03 Dec 2012

The number of flights to Kuala Lumpur by Emirates increases from 3-times a day to 25 per week anrd is expected to rise to 26 on 6 February next year.

Emirates adds its 12th weekly flight for the route from Dubai to the Seychelles.

Flight EK707 will depart Dubai at 08h45 and arrives in the Seychelles at 13h25. The return flight, EK 708, departs the Seychelles at 23h50 the same day and arrives in Dubai at 04h20 the next day.

01 Dec 2012

Emirates introduces a permanent Airbus A380 service to its route between Dubai and Singapore. The A380 boosts the passenger capacity by 46 percent, making Emirates the first and only airline offering this specific service. The decision was based on the increased passenger demand in both directions.

Emirates increases the frequency of Dubai - Perth flights from 14 to 19 weekly flights.

08 Nov 2012

Effective from 28 October, the airline has launched an additional weekly flight to Yemen in celebration of its 16 years of operations to the country. Emirates is now offering a daily service to from Dubai to Yemen.

07 Nov 2012

Dubai's Airline has signed Britain's low-cost carrier easyJet to its frequent flyer programme Skywards.

This will enable frequent Emirates flyers to redeem their Skywards miles on easyJet flights across Europe and North Africa.

01 Nov 2012

Emirates introduces Dubai - Adelaide route. Service will operate 4 times a week on a 3-class Boeing 777-300ER.

29 Oct 2012

UPDATE: The airline has cancelled the planned commencement of this service.

Emirates restarts flights to Tripoli, Libya four times a week, following the end of the country's civil war.

28 Oct 2012

Emirates increases frequency on the Dubai - Paris route to 19 flights weekly.

15 Oct 2012

The airline has added extra flights between Dubai and Saudi Arabia for the Haj rush.

Around 70 extra services will be launched to assist pilgrims during the period.

Until 22 October, an extra 27 flights are running between Dubai and Jeddah. From 29 October until 11 November an additional 33 flights will be incorporated on the same route.

Between 13 and 19 October an extra seven with Medinah as destination will be running and an extra five flights will depart the city between 4 & 8 November.

01 Oct 2012

Emirates introduces an extra flight from Dubai to Amman(Jordan), increasing the current 13 weekly flights to 14 per week. The second flight, EK901, will leave Dubai at 07:25 every Friday and arrive at its destination, Amman (Jordan), at 09:20, making the trip last just under three hours

Emirates commences flights between Dubai and Auckland (New Zealand) via Melbourne, operated in an Airbus A380.

12 Sept 2012

Emirates launched a new service to Washington Dulles International Airport. The route is operated by a B777-300 ER aircraft with eight private suites in first class, 42 lie-flat beds in business class and 304 seats in economy class. It leaves Dubai at 02:20am daily and arrives in Washington at 08:50am.

06 Sept 2012

Emirates has struck a 10 year alliance with Australia's Qantas Airways and will coordinate pricing, sales and schedules from March 2013.

05 Sept 2012

Passengers can now fly from Dubai to Manchester in first class. Emirates has upgraded its evening flight to a three class aircraft after the morning service, upgraded to three classes last month, has been a great success.

Sept 2012

Customers travelling to and from the United States can also benefit from Emirates' partnerships with Jet Blue, American Airlines, Virgin America and Alaska Airlines. Passengers connecting to or from Emirates' US flights from these airlines will enjoy a range of benefits, including one-stop check in and checked-through baggage. Flights will depart Dubai daily at 02h20, arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD) at 08h50. The return service will depart Dulles at 10h55, arriving in Dubai at 08h00 the following day.

12 Aug 2012

Emirates commences non-stop flights between Dubai and Erbil, Iraq. This is the 11th destination launched this year and the third Iraqi city that Emirates flies to, after Baghdad and Basra.

01 Aug 2012

Emirates upgrades the aircraft on the Dubai - Amsterdam route to a Airbus A380.

04 Jul 2012

Emirates introduces flights to Portugal's capital city, Lisbon.

03 Jul 2012

Emirates introduces double daily flights to the Spanish city of Barcelona.

01 Jul 2012

Emirates commences daily service between Dubai and Tokyo operated by an Airbus A380.

Jul 2012

Washington, DC will be Emirates' 11th new route to launch in 2012. So far this year, the airline has started services to Dublin, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Dallas/Fort Worth, Seattle, Lusaka and Harare. Flights to Ho Chi Minh City start on June 4 and to Barcelona and Lisbon on July 3 and July 9 respectively.

01 Jun 2012

Emirates increases capacity on the Dubai - Durban flight route by operating a 354-seat Boeing 777-300ER aircraft as well as introducing a First Class cabin.

Emirates introduces a second daily flight between Dubai and Glasgow, United Kingdom operated by a three-class Airbus A340-300 with seating for 12 First Class, 42 Business Class and 213 Economy passengers.

04 Jun 2012

Emirates commences non-stop flights from Dubai to Ho Chi Min City (Vietnam).

26 Apr 2012

Emirates announces that it will expand it's European services to include flights to Barcelona, Spain and Lisbon as from early July.

20 Apr 2012

Emirates announces a codeshare partnership with New York based airliner CodeBlue. This will link Emirates with 13 American cities, namely : Boston, Burlington, Buffalo, Charlotte, Chicago, Fort Lauderdale, Jacksonville, Orlando, Portland, Maine, Raleigh/Durham, Tampa and Washington. These flights operate via New York J.F.K airport.

18 Apr 2012

Emirates reaches the limits of it's organic growth strategy. It announced this week that it will be looking into foreign accusitions as a way to grow the business.

16 Apr 2012

Emirates plans to recruit 500 new pilots for the 2012 year. This is due to growth in the airlines fleet by about 35 aircraft as well as the recession of 2009, which halted their recruitment efforts for a while.

10 Apr 2012

Emirates increases it's weekly flights to 13 per week on the Dubai-Cairo route after a increase in passenger and cargo demand from Egypt to the UAE.

29 Mar 2012

Emirates introduces a direct (non-stop) flight between Dubai and Entebbe (Uganda) as from 24 March 2012. One can now connect to over 120 destinations using Emirates.

28 Mar 2012

Growing traffic on the Dubai - Karachi route has induced Emirates to increase the flight frequency on the route to five flights a day starting from 1 August 2012

25 Mar 2012

Emirates commences direct flights between Dubai and Entebbe, Uganda.

Emirates increases Dubai ­ Paris flights from 14 to 18 weekly flights.

25 Mar 2012

Emirates introduces the Airbus A340-500 on the Dubai-Tunis route. Flights operate on a daily basis.

01 Mar 2012

Emirates commences non-stop flights from Dubai to Seattle (USA), using Boeing 777 aircraft.

02 Feb 2012

Emirates commences non-stop flights from Dubai to Dallas, Fort Worth(USA), operated by Boeing 777 aircraft.

01 Feb 2012

Emirates enhances it's offering to Africa with the launch of two flights to African destinations. Emirates will operate flights to the capital of Zimbabwe, Harare. It also introduces flights to Lusaka, Zambia.

09 Jan 2012

Emirates commences daily flights between Dubai (UAE) and Dublin, Ireland operated by an Airbus A330.

03 Jan 2012

Emirates launches non-stop flights from Dubai to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), operated by Boeing 777 aircraft.

03 Jan 2012

Emirates increases it's reach into the America's with the operation of flights to Argentina's capital, Buenos Aries.

01 Jan 2012

Emirates launches Airbus A380 service, replacing Boeing 777-300 on Dubai to Munich, Germany route.

01 Jan 2012

Emirates kicks off the new year with the launch of flights between Dubai and Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lampur.

12 Dec 2011

Emirates Airline announces plans to launch Wi-Fi internet conectivity with service provider OnAir on 11 of its 19 Airbus A380 early 2012. The airline said the service will eventually be rolled out across the entire fleet, including the 71 Emirates A380s on order.

01 Nov 2011

Emirates commences daily, non-stop flights from Dubai to Tokyo - Narita International Airport.

23 Oct 2011

Emirates Airbus A380 flying from Bangkok to Dubai made an emergency landing at Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (Hyderabad) due to a technical fault in the aircraft.

29 Aug 2011

Emirates reinstates flights from Dubai to New York JFK Airport following the airport's reopening for air traffic.

01 Aug 2011

Emirates launches Airbus A330-200 aircraft daily flights from Dubai to Copenhagen, Denmark.

01 Jun 2011

Emirates reduces capacity on the Dubai ­ Osaka Kansai flight route by phasing out the 358-seater Boeing 300ER and introducing the 777-200LR with a 286-seating capacity.

04 Nov 2010

Emirates increase flight frequencies from Dubai to the Seychelles to seven flights per week.

Flight EK 705 will depart Dubai at 0230 hours and will arrive in the Seychelles at 0700 hours. On the return journey, flight EK 706 will depart the Seychelles at 0830, arriving in Dubai at 1300 hours.

30 Oct 2010

US fighter jets escort and Emirates passenger flight from Dubai to New York from the Canadian border to John F. Kennedy International Airport.

25 Oct 2010

Emirates airline celebrates its 25th anniversary.

01 Oct 2010

Emirates launches Airbus A380 daily flights from Dubai to Hong-kong and Dubai to Bangkok.

Oct 2010

Emirates suspends one of its three daily Dubai-Sydney flights from the end of October 2010. The carrier's Boeing 777-300ER Dubai-Bangkok-Sydney service is being maintained, as is the non-stop A380 service. But Emirates is transferring the 777-200LR used on the third Sydney service to increase its Dubai-Los Angeles service from daily to twice daily.

01 Sep 2010

Emirates replaces the Boeing 777 used on its Dubai - Manchester flights with an Airbus A380.

01 Sep 2010

Emirates commences passenger flights from Dubai to Dakar (Senegal).

01 Aug 2010

Emirates commences passenger flights from Dubai to Madrid (the airline's 25th destination in Europe).

01 Jul 2010

Emirates commences passenger flights from Dubai to Prague & Dubai to Baghdad.

01 May 2010

Emirates commences passenger flights from Dubai to Amsterdam.

28 Mar 2010

Emirates commences passenger flights from Dubai to Tokyo.

08 Feb 2010

Emirates flight EK505 from Mumbai to Dubai was aborted whilst on the runway preparing for take-off, after a hoax caller (who identified himself as Suresh Chavan) phoned the cargo supervisor of the Emirates flight to say that he had overheard somebody saying there was a Lashkar-i-Taiba (a terrorist group) operative on board (by the name Shahbaz Khan) in seat 17F. The aircraft was taxied to an isolated parking bay where all the passengers disembarked and a thorough check of the passengers, aircraft and luggage was carried out by the security agencies. A male passenger and his wife were handed over to the Mumbai police authorities for questioning, but were released on Sunday night after it was established that they had no connection with terrorism. The flight finally took off after a four-hour delay.

01 Feb 2010

Emirates becomes the first airline to fly the Airbus A380 into Saudi Arabia, with its flights from Dubai to Jeddah.

03 Dec 2009

Emirates increases flight frequencies from Dubai to Kolkata from 7 to 12 per week.

Dec 2009

Emirates increases flight frequencies from Dubai to Kozhikode (Calicut International Airport, India) from 6 per week to 11 per week.

01 Dec 2009

Emirates introduces the B777-200 aircraft on the Dubai-Kolkata route. Previously the route had been flown using a fleet of Airbus A330-200.

25 Oct 2009

Emirates commences 3 weekly flights (Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays) from Dubai to Luanda (Angola), using a Boeing 777-300ER.

25 Oct 2009

Emirates enters into a codesharing agreement with V Australia, the Virgin Blue Group's new international airline. The new agreement will allow V Australia passengers travelling between New Zeland and the USA to connect to Sydney on Emirates operated flights before flying on to Los Angeles on V Australia's daily service.

1 Oct 2009

Emirates commences flights from Dubai to Durban (South Africa).

12 Jul 2009

Emirates flight EK-511 from Delhi to Dubai was cancelled for technical reasons, leaving some 230 passengers stranded at Delhi's Indira Ghandi International Airport. Scheduled to take off at 11am, the cancellation was announced at 5.30pm. Emirates Vice President for India and Nepal, Orhan Abbas, said in a written statement that "Emirates is extending all possible assistance to passengers and crew. Hotel accommodation at a premium 5-star hotel within close proximity of the airport has been provided along with airport transfers, meals and refreshments at the airport and hotel. The airlines is rebooking passengers on its next available flights as well as on other airlines. Passengers have been booked on EK-517 and EK-515 and on EK-511 scheduled to depart on Monday. The safety of our passengers and crew is of utmost importance. Emirates regrets any inconvenience caused to the passengers.''

Eijaz Alam, one of the passengers, said "We were asked to wait for an hour initially, but that turned into six hours. No information was available. Over 230 passengers from different parts of the world were inconvenienced and many ended up missing connecting flights."

Apr 2009

After drinking large amounts of whisky on Emirates flight EK 749 from Tunis to Dubai, FY falsely claims to be wearing an explosive belt. In Oct 2009 he is found guilty of assault and endangering an aircraft and sentenced by the Dubai Criminal Courts to 3 months in prison.

20 Mar 2009

Emirates flight EK-407 fails to take off properly from Melbourne Airport, going 292 metres past the end of the runway before it began climbing . The Airbus 340-541, carrying 257 passengers & 18 crew, almost failed to become airborne and only just made it over the airport perimeter fence. Emirates' pilots on the flight resigned in early April 2009 (the pilot & the co-pilot claim they were forced to quit). The first officer had incorrectly entered a takeoff weight of 262.9 tonnes into the computer used for calculating takeoff performance, when the true figure was 100 tonnes higher. This resulted in take-off speeds & a thrust setting lower than that required for the plane's actual weight. Taking off at 22:31 on a scheduled flight from Melbourne to Dubai, the plane's engines weren't manually pushed to full power until it had come to the end of the runway and after its tail had already struck the runway 3 times. From the end of the runway the plane vanished from sight sinking downslope over grassy ground during which its tail hit the ground a 4th and 5th time, wiping out a stroke light and tearing a hole in the localiser antenna with its left main wheel. For more info see the Australian Government safety report.