EMIRATES AIRLINES

Emirates, Dubai Flights, Dubai Airlines

Emirates Airline is a Dubai based airline carrier in United Arab Emirates (UAE). Being the largest Middle East airline carrier, Emirates flies up to 94 cities worldwide, with over 2300 flight routes each week.

It also flies the much overly competitive "Kangaroo" Route between Oceania and Europe. Emirates also has its own cargo subsidiary airline namely Emirates SkyCargo with its main base also located at Dubai International Airport.

Besides concentrating on the flight industry itself, Emirates has also other businesses which includes ground handling, aviation engineering, air catering, and travel and tour marketing.

SkyTrax has awarded Emirates Airline as the 9th best Airline of the Year in the year 2007.

Emirates Aircraft Types

Airbus A330 (All Series)

Airbus A340-500

Boeing 777

Airbus A330-200

Airbus A380

Boeing 777-200

Airbus A340-300

Boeing 777

Boeing 777-300

Emirates To Be Largest Operator of Airbus A380

By the year 2011, Emirates aircraft fleet will include around 54 Boeing 777-300ERs, and at the end of 2014, a total of 55 Airbus A380's super jumbos will also be part of it and that certainly make it the single largest aircraft type in its entire fleet.

Being the first and largest customer for the Airbus A380 next generation aircraft, both companies of Airbus and Emirates have worked closely together in the design and development of the A380.

Emirates global hub at Dubai International Airport has already prepared to receive the double-decker aircraft at its newly opened Terminal 3.

Strong Flight Presence in Southeast Asia

Emirates has an especially huge impact and presence in the Southeast Asian region. The airline actually connects Dubai to more international destinations around the region compared to other Middle Eastern airline.

Emirates Flight Services

In Flight Entertainment System

Emirates in-flight entertainment system, also known as ICE (Information Communication Entertainment), was first introduced in the year 2002. The system is available to all passengers in all seat classes and covers well over 1,200 entertainment options.

Panasonic Avionics Corporation is the one chosen to create the new IFE system to be installed on all of Emirates Fleet.

High Speed Internet Access and Ipod

Emirates introduced a high-speed in-flight Internet service in March 2005. The Inmarsat's satellite system was installed on each aircraft.

With that, Emirates became the second airline to offer live international television broadcasts.

In the middle of 2007, Emirates has featured a docking capability for the infamous Apple Inc.'s iPod portable music and video player which will allow integration with Emirates' own in-flight entertainment (IFE) system.

Emirates Flight Catering

With over 4800 employees, Emirates Flight Catering Co. offers splendid in-flight catering and support services for airlines operating at Dubai International Airport.

In March 2007, a dedicated catering facility was opened just to produce airline meals for Emirates Airlines.

More than 100,000 meal tray were being setup daily and the system will be much automated with an electric monorail system handling metal carts, a bin conveyor system to handle the equipment, and also an automated vacuum waste disposal system.

Emirates Frequent Flyer Program

Emirates's frequent flyer program is called Skywards. Members can earn miles not only through flights with Emirates and SriLankan but also with other associated airlines namely :-

Continental Airlines

Japan Airlines

Korean Air

South African Airways

Virgin Blue

United Airlines

Emirates Flights To Airports In Dubai, Middle East and Worldwide

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Abidjan (ABJ)		Glasgow International Airport (GLA)		Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP)
Accra (ACC)		Guangzhou (CAN)		Moscow Domodedovo Airport (DME)
Addis Ababa (ADD)		Hamburg Fuhlsbuettel Airport (HAM)		Mumbai (BOM)
Ahmedabad (AMD)		Hong Kong International Airport (HKG)		Munich International Airport (MUC)
Alexandria Borg el Arab Airport (HBE)		Houston George Bush Intercontinental Ap (IAH)		Muscat (MCT)
Amman Queen Alia International Airport (AMM)		Hyderabad (HYD)		Nagoya Chubu Centrair International Airport (NGO)
Athens Eleftherios Venizelos Intl.Airport (ATH)		Islamabad (ISB)		Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)
Auckland International Airport (AKL)		Istanbul Ataturk Airport (IST)		New York J F Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
Bahrain (BAH)		Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta Airport (CGK)		Newcastle (NCL)
Bangalore (BLR)		Jeddah (JED)		Nice (NCE)
Bangkok (BKK)		Johannesburg International (JNB)		Osaka Kansai International Airport (KIX)
Beijing Capital Airport (PEK)		Karachi (KHI)		Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport (CDG)
Beirut (BEY)		Khartoum (KRT)		Perth (PER)
Birmingham International Airport (BHX)		Kochi (COK)		Peshawar (PEW)
Brisbane (BNE)		Kolkata (CCU)		Riyadh (RUH)
Cairo (CAI)		Kozhikode (CCJ)		Rome Fiumicino Airport (FCO)
Cape Town (CPT)		Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KUL)		San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
Casablanca Mohamed V Airport (CMN)		Kuwait (KWI)		Sanaa (SAH)
Chennai (MAA)		Lagos (LOS)		Sao Paulo Guarulhos Intl Airport (GRU)
Christchurch (CHC)		Lahore (LHE)		Seoul Incheon Intl Airport (ICN)
Colombo Bandaranaike Airport (CMB)		Larnaca (LCA)		Shanghai Pu Dong Airport (PVG)
Damascus (DAM)		London Gatwick Airport (LGW)		Singapore Changi Airport (SIN)
Dammam (DMM)		London Heathrow Airport (LHR)		Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport (SYD)
Dar Es Salaam (DAR)		Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)		Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport (IKA)
Delhi (DEL)		Mahe Island (SEZ)		Thiruvananthapuram (TRV)
Dhaka (DAC)		Male (MLE)		Toronto Lester B Pearson Intl Airport (YYZ)
Doha (DOH)		Malta (MLA)		Tripoli (TIP)
Dubai (DXB)		Manchester International Airport (MAN)		Tunis (TUN)
Durban International Airport (DUR)		Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport (MNL)		Venice Marco Polo Airport (VCE)
Dusseldorf International Airport (DUS)		Mauritius (MRU)		Vienna (VIE)
Entebbe/Kampala (EBB)		Melbourne Airport (MEL)		Zurich Airport (ZRH)
Frankfurt International Airport (FRA)