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Emirates (airline)

flag carrier airline of the United Arab Emirates

Emirates is an airline based in the United Arab Emirates. They are a subsidiary of The Emirates Group. They are the seventh biggest airline in the world, by number of passengers.[1] Emirates Airline is the largest major airline in the Middle East. It is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It runs more than 2400 passenger flights per week[2][3] from its hub at Dubai International Airport Terminal 3, to 108 places in 60 countries. It goes to countries on six continents.[4][5] Emirates is a part of The Emirates Group, which has more than 50,000 employees, and is owned fully by the Government of Dubai directly under the Investment Corporation of Dubai.[6] Cargo activities are done by the Emirates Group's division.[7]

Emirates
IATA ICAO Callsign
EK UAE EMIRATES
Founded25 March 1985
Commenced operations25 October 1985
HubsDubai International Airport
Frequent-flyer programEmirates Skywards
Fleet size262
Destinations152
Parent companyThe Emirates Group
Employees45,843 (31 March 2022)
Emirates A330 plane taking off from Heathrow airport

Arsenal, The English Premier League (Barclay's Premier League) is sponsored by the Airline.

Destinations

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Emirates operate the following with cargo and passenger flights;[8][9]

Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Conakry, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti (cargo), Durban, Eldoret (cargo), Entebbe, Harare, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Lilongwe (cargo), Luanda, Lusaka, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tripoli, Tunis

Boston,[10] Buenos Aires, Campinas (cargo), Chicago (cargo), Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Orlando, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seattle, Toronto, Washington–Dulles.

 
Emirates A380 front view (Munich Airport)

Ahmedabad, Almaty (cargo), Amman, Baghdad, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok, Basra, Beijing, Beirut, Chennai, Chittagong (cargo), Clark, Cochin, Colombo, Dammam, Delhi, Dhahran, Dhaka, Dubai, Erbil, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jakarta, Jeddah, Kabul, Karachi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lahore, Maldives, Manila, Medina, Mumbai, Muscat, Osaka, Peshawar, Phuket, Riyadh, Sana'a, Seoul, Shanghai, Sialkot, Singapore, Taipei, Tehran, Tokyo, Thiruvanathapuram

Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Gothenburg (cargo), Hamburg, Istanbul, Kyiv, Larnaca, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Newcastle, Nice, Paris, Prague, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zaragoza (cargo), Zurich

Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Christchurch, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

Current fleet

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Emirates current fleet
 
An Emirates Airbus A380-800
 
An Emirates Boeing 777-200LR
 
An Emirates Boeing 777-300ER

As of January 2020, the Emirates mainline fleet consists of the following widebody aircraft:[11][12][13][14]

Aircraft In service Orders Passengers Notes
F B E Total
Airbus A350-900 — 50 TBA Deliveries planned to start from 2023.[15]
Airbus A380-800 117[14] 5[16] 14 76 399 489 Largest A380-800 operator
14 76 401 491
14 76 426 516
14 76 427 517
14 76 429 519
— 58 557 615
Boeing 777-200LR 10 — — 38 264 302
Boeing 777-300ER 127 — 8 42 304 354 Largest B777-300ER operator
8 42 306 356
8 42 310 360
6 42 306 354
— 42 386 428
Boeing 777X — 115[17] TBA Deliveries planned to start from 2021.
Boeing 787-9 — 30[18] TBA Deliveries planned to start from 2023.
Total 265 203

Executive aircraft

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As of January 2020, the Emirates Executive fleet consists of the following aircraft:[19]

Emirates Executive fleet
Aircraft Fleet Orders Passengers
Airbus ACJ319 1 — 10 (suites)
5 (beds)
Total 1

References

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  1. ↑ "WATS - Yearly passengers carried". Archived from the original on 2010-03-23. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
  2. ↑ "Emirates to hire 700 pilots over next 18 months".
  3. ↑ "Flightlog - Emirates | Airfleets aviation".
  4. ↑ Emirates Announces 2009 Expansion Plan
  5. ↑ "Emirates Launches San Francisco Service With World's Longest Green Flight Trial (press release)". ABTN. Archived from the original on 2008-12-14. Retrieved 2009-07-15.
  6. ↑ GulfNews.com – Emirates and Dnata now under ICD Archived 2019-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ↑ "Emirates SkyCargo". The Emirates Group. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  8. ↑ "Emirates SkyCargo flight schedule". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
  9. ↑ Emirates routemap
  10. ↑ "Emirates Announces Start of Boston Service" (Press release). Dubai Chronicle. December 30, 2013. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
  11. ↑ "Emirates Fleet". ch-aviation.ch. ch-aviation. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
  12. ↑ "Our Fleet - The Emirates Experience". emirates.com. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
  13. ↑ 20 December 2016. "Emirates Fleet in Planespotters.net". planespotters.net. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01. Retrieved 2016-12-20.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Emirates receives 100th Airbus A380 in Hamburg with Sheikh Zayed livery". The National. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
  15. ↑ Turak, Natasha; Smith, Eliot (2019-11-18). "Emirates orders 50 Airbus A350 jets worth a total $16 billion". CNBC. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
  16. ↑ "Airbus and Emirates reach agreement on A380 fleet, sign new widebody orders" (Press release). Airbus. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
  17. ↑ "Boeing: Commercial - Orders & Deliveries". Boeing Commercial. November 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
  18. ↑ Curran, Andrew (20 November 2019). "Emirates Orders 30 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners But Reduces 777X Deal". Simple Flying. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  19. ↑ "Emirates Executive - Specifications". emirates-executive.com. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
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