Emirates Second A380 Jet to Serve Heathrow

Later this year, Emirates will be beefing up its Heathrow Dubai capacity. This will be done with the company’s second A380. This jet will make it possible, for the very first time, to fly from Heathrow to Sydney and Auckland via Dubai, then return.

Starting July 1^st, flight EK004 will go from being served by a B777-300 to an A380. The jet will be leaving LHR daily at 8:40pm and arriving at Dubai International at 6:30am the next day. This is in addition to the EK002, which is the current daily A380 service.

Passengers will then be able to connect to flight EK412 from Duabi at 9:45am and arrive in Sydney at 5:30am the next day. The same aircraft then flies on to Auckland from Sydney, arriving at 12:15pm the next day.

Emirates’ senior VP of commercial operations in Europe, Salem Obaidalla, said that it had made a long term commitment to double up on the double decker on the UK route. This suggests that Heathrow will be served by two Emirates A380s for quite some time. London Heathrow was one of the key airports Emirates had in mind when the A380 was first launched.

Emirates A380, which has 517 sets, has 14 flat bed first class suites, plus a lounge and shower spa. There are 76 fully flat beds in business and a massive 427 economy seats. Emirates has a total of eight of these huge jumbo jets. These planes serve eight routes, including Toronto, Paris, Jeddah, Bangkok, Seoul, Sydney and Heathrow. Emirates has even talked about serving Beijing with a A380, which would take the amount of these aircraft that the company has to 9.