Emirates

[Land23R]

Given the news that Birmingham is losing an Emirates flight is it possible their growth curve is slowing. This comes on top of employment reduction. .

I was told by someone who looked at a flight tv screen on Wed. morning at the airport that the EK outbound showed only 218 pax. Is it still the A380 until mid May? As has been said, May is probably the quietest month and I'm not suggesting such a load is generally indicative of a slow-down but nevertheless a useful reminder that even EK can have low loads at MAN, as presumably has happened at BHX. Of course, if Wednesday's flight was well populated with premium fare paying passengers in J class, even 218 is not disastrous and economy pax might have had 3 seats to themselves.

 

[User001]

Back to 3 daily A380 today.

 

[User001]

F class is already sold out on the EK18 on 16th July. Aircraft is F equipped as it still has seats available on the inbound.

 

[Dobbo]

Good to hear about strong demand, but doesn't this have F as a matter of routine?

 

[User001]

F is normally sold but it was more to pre empt any question of the 3 class being subbed for a 2 class that day.

 

[User001]

EK21/22 goes B77W from 1st May until 17th June, in line with a few other destinations doing the same. Usual low season reductions

 

[David_itl]

Still won't stop the doom and gloom merchants elsewhere!

 

[BlueManc]

One doesn't feel any doom and gloom with the return of a spooling GE90!

 

[IanFarquharson]

Lots of cut backs for the low season, thankfully BHX is unaffected and if anything may gain ?

Emirates Airlines within the last 2 weeks made several changes to its planned summer 2018 operation, effective 25MAR18. Planned changes as of 28DEC17 as follow.

Dubai – Athens eff 25MAR18 EK103/104 service resumption, overall 2 daily
Dubai – Barcelona 01MAY18 – 30JUN18 EK187/188 777-300ER replaces A380 (Overall 1 daily each 777 and A380)
Dubai – Bologna Reduce from 7 to 5 weekly
01MAY18 – 03JUN18 Day x24
04JUN18 – 17JUN18 Day x13

Dubai – Brisbane
eff 25MAR18 EK430/431 777-300ER replaces -200LR (Overall 1 daily each 777 and A380)
01JUN18 – 31AUG18 777-300ER replaces A380 (Overall 2 daily 777-300ER)

Dubai – Dublin eff 01AUG18 EK163/164 3-class 777-300ER replaces 2-class aircraft (Overall 2 daily 3-class 777)
Dubai – Dusseldorf 01MAY18 – 30JUN18 EK057/058 777-300ER replaces A380 (Overall 1 daily each 777 and A380)
Dubai – Lyon 25MAR18 – 30JUN18 777-200LR replaces -300ER, 5 weekly
Dubai – Manchester 01MAY18 – 13JUN18 EK021/022 777-300ER replaces A380 (Overall 2 daily A380 and 1 daily 777)
Dubai – Milan Malpensa 07MAY18 – 06JUN18 Reduce from 3 to 2 daily, EK099/100 cancelled
Dubai – New York JFK 25MAR18 – 31MAY18 Nonstop sector reduced from 3 to 2 daily, EK207/208 cancelled
Dubai – Orlando eff 25MAR18 Service operates 7 weekly once again, instead of 5 weekly. 777-300ER operation
Dubai – Perth 25MAR18 – 30JUN18 EK424/425 777-200LR replaces -300ER
Dubai – Stockholm Arlanda Seasonal flight increase, EK155/156, will be offered during following periods in S18:
25MAR18 – 15APR18 Day 567 (Overall 10 weekly)
01JUL18 – 30SEP18 Daily (Overall 2 daily)

Dubai – Taipei Taoyuan 01MAY18 – 31JUL18 2-class A380 replaces 3-class, 1 daily
Dubai – Yangon – Phnom Penh Reduce from 7 to 5 weekly
07MAY18 – 03JUN18 Day x13
04JUN18 – 02JUL18 Day x24

Previously reported changes:
Dubai – London Stansted eff 08JUN18 NEW 1 daily 3-class 777-300ER service
Dubai – Melbourne eff 25MAR18 2 daily A380 service, replacing 1 daily each 777-300ER/A380
Dubai – Moscow Domodedovo 01JUN18 – 30JUN18 EK133/134 3-class A380 replaces 777-300ER (Overall 2 daily A380)
Dubai – Sydney eff 25MAR18 NEW 3rd daily nonstop service by A380

 

[Land23R]

See User's post above Ian - already reported and no great surprise. Of course, if you think BHX is getting its morning flight back, you could always post this on their forum.

 

[Dobbo]

Cheers @IanFarquharson wondering what basis EK would expand BHX during a Lon off peak period when their major European routes have cuts in capacity? Or are you referring to long term expansion?

 

[IanFarquharson]

Wait and see !

 

[User001]

We’re at the edge of our seats....

 

[BHX492]

Is it something to do cargo

 

[Aceshigh]

We’re at the edge of our seats....

I'm not, I'm completely indifferent regarding Birmingham

Only joking.....

 

[Scottie Dog]

Emirates increase from Low (517 seats) to High(615 seats) density A380 on the morning EK021/022 for 31st August, 2nd, 4th & 8th September and the lunchtime flight, EK017/EK018 26th, 29th, 30th, 31st August and 3rd & 4th September.

 

[Scottie Dog]

I should have mentioned this back in June when I published the statistics for April 2018.

Emirates broke through the 1 million figure in a moving 12 month calendar from Manchester to Dubai with 1,002,238 passengers.

 

[groobs]

The morning A380 is set to go two-class from December...

Emirates boosts Manchester capacity

 

[Scottie Dog]

Summer 2019 see a continuation of 3 flights per day with the A380HD on both the morning and evening flights (offering 615 seets) and the A380 (517 seats) on the midday flight.

 

[Scottie Dog]

Our morning Dubai rotation is cancelled between 16th April and 30th May due to the runway work at DXB. Ours is one of many flights effected on a global basis by Emirates.