With the Eid Al Fitr celebrations approaching Emirates is getting its A380s and B777s out of the parking lot and on the runway.
Emirates is gearing up for Eid Al Fitr by adding extra flights to seven cities in the Gulf Cooperation Council and the Middle East.
Member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are the United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Bahrain, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Sultanate of Oman, State of Qatar and the State of Kuwait.
Emirates is adding more flights to the cities it already serves in Saudi Arabia; Riyadh, Jeddah, Medina and Dammam. It will also offer more flights to Amman, Beirut and Kuwait, bringing the total flights added to twenty-three.
The added capacity will come from deploying Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 aircraft on selected routes. Emirates will be offering the extra capacity from April 28 to May 8 to these seven cities.
Data from ch-aviation.com reveals that Emirates has 73 of its A380-800s active while 48 are inactive. For its B777-300ER, the numbers are 122 active and two inactive, while there are also 10 B777-200LR on active duty.
In Saudi Arabia, Emirates is adding two additional flights on May 2 and May 8 to meet expected demand in and out of Riyadh. To Jeddah, it will add five B777 flights and upgrade an existing flight to the A380.
There will be four additional flights to Medina in the same period, and on April 28, one extra flight to Dammam.
Emirates also expects heavy demand for flights from Saudi Arabia to Dubai for Eid Al Fitr celebrations. The airline says other in-demand destinations from Saudi Arabia include the Maldives, Paris, Bangkok, Mauritius, Manila and Los Angeles.
Kuwaiti travelers will head to Dubai for the celebrations and further afield to London, Mauritius, the Maldives, Paris and Bangkok. To meet that extra demand, Emirates is laying on additional B777 services.
Catering to a large family reunion market, Emirates is adding extra B777 flights from Beruit and Amman to Dubai.
Staying in tune with the festive season and Middle Eastern hospitality, Emirates will be serving a specially crafted Eid menu from May 2 to May 5. The Eid menu will be served on all GCC, Middle East and North Africa flights departing from or arriving in Dubai.
Arabic coffee, dates and traditional Eid sweets will be served in the Emirates First and Business Class Dubai lounges. In the Cairo and Singapore lounges customers will be offered special sweets and savory dishes.
The widebodies are revved up and ready to go
On April 6, Emirates announced it was restarting four routes and adding capacity on others.
Services to Bali will restart on May 1, London Stansted on August 1, Rio de Janeiro on November 2 and Buenos Aries on November 2. Boeing B777-300ER aircraft will operate the four routes.
Bali will resume with five weekly flights, going daily from July 1. Similarly, London Stansted will start with five weekly flights and go daily from September 1.
By October, Emirates will be operating 110 weekly flights to the UK. Flights will service the London airports of Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted and to Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Four weekly flights to Buenos Aries via Rio de Janeiro will restart on November 2 and shift to daily from February 1, 2023.
More capacity is being added for flights to Lagos and Abuja in Nigeria, Mauritius, and Singapore.
Emirates is really starting to get its fleet of 256 widebodies back to work in a hurry.
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