Emirates

[IanFarquharson]

EK planning to restart on 1st May now

Now pushed back again to Mid May

 

[Ray Finkle]

Double daily 777 bookable from July.

 

[Nethercote2019]

What’s the latest restart date for Emirates?

 

[IanFarquharson]

Unlikely to be 17 May - 50/50 at best

 

[Coathanger16]

Somebody in government recently said the UAE wouldn't be put on the green list regardless of how much of its population is vaccinated because Dubai is such a hub with passengers connecting from many different countries.

On that basis I can't see the UAE being on the green list until covid is under control globally - end of 2021, first half of 2022.

 

[Karl C]

Strange train of thought.....by the same token Istanbul and Turkey should be on the red list already as TK fly to more countries than any other airline. Go figure!

 

[Coathanger16]

Strange train of thought.....by the same token Istanbul and Turkey should be on the red list already as TK fly to more countries than any other airline. Go figure!

To be honest, I think a lot of it is "we don't want people going to country x, so what reason can we think of to justify it".

I remember towards the end of last summer Turkey was one of the few places you could go to in Europe. As the season wrapped up, the government didn't want people going on holiday, yet the Turkey numbers were still doing ok at that point, so the government basically said "we don't trust the numbers coming from Turkey so we're going to place it on the quarantine list".

 

[Llandudno]

The govt policy, if it is endacted, around the UAE and the red list makes no sense and is completely unjustified.

yes, Dubai is a big hub, but there are several others such as IST, SAW, FRA, CDG and AMS just to name a few. If you cut off the UAE, people will just fly via other points.

I do often wonder if our govt understands how even the most basic principles of travel work?

 

[Sherburnflyer92]

I do often wonder if our govt understands how even the most basic principles of travel work?

They don’t and won’t. They refuse to listen to the industry with an arrogant we know best approach. Reality is they are useless and clueless. And you really don’t want my opinion on that prat who’s transport Secretary.

 

[HPsauce]

Emirates are still going into LHR and MAN and have been for a long time. With regard to Turkey, they have seen a huge rise in cases in recent weeks, the highest it has been throughout the Pandemic.

 

[KARFA]

Emirates are still going into LHR and MAN and have been for a long time. With regard to Turkey, they have seen a huge rise in cases in recent weeks, the highest it has been throughout the Pandemic.

cargo only coming in to the UK since the 29 January. they are allowed to fly commercial passengers out of the UK as well.

 

[Coathanger16]

Emirates are still going into LHR and MAN and have been for a long time. With regard to Turkey, they have seen a huge rise in cases in recent weeks, the highest it has been throughout the Pandemic.

First part, what @KARFA said.

Second part, cases in Turkey are falling and are now down to half of what they were 2 weeks ago. With another 2 weeks of lockdown there to go, case numbers should fall even further. They won't make the green list this month, and probably not even in June, but by July I suspect cases will be low enough for travel restrictions to ease.

 

[Bibin91]

Emirates to resume flights to Birmingham from June 15th according to this article. Talk about something out of the blue!

Emirates to restart flights from Dubai to the UK this month

The airline said that travel restrictions remain in place as the UAE is still on the UK's red list for travel.

gulfbusiness.com

 

[KARFA]

Yes, with the changes today they can now bring passengers from the UAE but only to LHR and BHX, so I guess this is what is driving the change.

 

[HPsauce]

Excellent news!. We have missed Emirates badly.

 

[andrew.clarkson]

Hi there all, let's see which aircraft they use, I would say to start 777-300, then maybe if demand is there, then a380 ,so 777 for am then a380 for pm.

 

[CL44]

From what I have been told it would appear to be 777-300 three times per week (Tuesday / Wednesday / Saturday but this is to be confirmed). I have not found out if the flight is the lunchtime (more likely) or Evening flight. In fairness all I am concerned about is availability for space to DXB and onwards as the last few months have not been the best for forwarders. Keep the A380 away from BHX at the moment. Lets get the 777 in and build accordingly with freight. Only problem is with no / few passengers flying the rates are high but such is the market at the moment. Happy to see this service coming back even limited as it is.

 

[CL44]

OK so a quick search reveals it will be 777-300 with the flight operating at Lunchtime (so far so good) but only 3 x days per week (room for improvement then). Lets hope the cargo side can keep paying for the flight otherwise EK will look at the figures and may decide to pull this as quickly as they have brought it back!

 

[HPsauce]

My sentiments entirely CL44. Just good to see them back. I would expect a 777 also.

 

[nwoody2001]

OK so a quick search reveals it will be 777-300 with the flight operating at Lunchtime (so far so good) but only 3 x days per week (room for improvement then). Lets hope the cargo side can keep paying for the flight otherwise EK will look at the figures and may decide to pull this as quickly as they have brought it back!

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