Emirates Airline

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At the CAPA India Aviation Summit 2023, Clark stated that the Indian market will grow, and there will be pressure on airlines that operate international flights from India

Emirates President urged India to embrace a so-called Open Skies accord with the airline's home country that would give carriers greater access to each other's market, amid rising competition

Indian aviation market is "large enough to accommodate all players profitably" and irrespective of what competitors do, the airline is focused on its strategies, leading Gulf carrier Emirates has said amid Air India ramping up its fleet and operations. Emirates, which operates only wide-body A380s and B777s, flies to nine Indian cities and operates 167 weekly flights to the country. A senior Emirates executive said the expansion of Air India might push airports to improve their services, which will be a positive development for all other airlines, Indian customers as well as the aviation and travel industries as a whole. "Air India flying to new international routes might also have a positive (effect) on Emirates. When a new route is operated by an airline, then that could result in increased traffic demand and the particular airline might not be able to cater to the demand. "As a result, the potential customers will look at other carriers and that can have a positive impact," ...

Airline has approached govt for allocation of more flights to India

UK airline adding capacity for 'incredibly important market' in face of increased competition

Carrier will add new seats and best in-flight entertainment across all classes

Long-hauled carrier Emirates is buying five Boeing 777 freighters in a deal valued at more than USD 1.7 billion, further expanding its cargo flight capacity, the two companies announced on Tuesday. Emirates previously announced a USD 1 billion investment to its cargo flights, including buying two new Boeing 777s and converting 10 Boeing 700-300ER passenger planes into freighter aircraft. The two new aircraft joined Emirates' fleet in 2022, while the conversions are scheduled to begin in 2023. Emirates already operates 11 Boeing 777 freighters. The airline said this order put its total orders at 200 wide-body aircraft. This order reflects Emirates' confidence in air freight demand and overall aviation sector growth, said Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, Emirates chairman and CEO. "It lays the ground for our continued growth, which is driven by the reach of our diverse global network." Emirates, a state-owned airline based at Dubai International Airport, the world's busiest for ...

Delhi, Bengaluru and Chennai were the top three domestic destinations, while Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Singapore took the top three positions for highest international traffic

Though Covid has led to concerns about pilots' job prospects, flight schools believe that the situation will change soon and the choice of piloting as a profession will remain as lucrative as ever

The cash infusion of close to 15 billion dirhams ($4 bn) provided a lifeline to one of the world's biggest airlines at a time when travel had come to a near standstill globally due to Covid

Prior to the pandemic hitting the country in March 2020 and grounding overseas flight services, Emirates was operating 170 weekly flights to nine destinations

Airlines and telecom companies have been at loggerheads over the deployment of 5G mobile services over concerns that the powerful signals could interfere with airplane systems

Indian aviation regulator DGCA has asked its UAE counterpart to share the report of the probe into the near collision of two India-bound Emirates passenger jets on January 9 at the Dubai airport

EK-524 from Dubai-Hyderabad was accelerating for take-off from runway 30R, when the crew saw a aircraft coming in the same direction at high speed, says a person aware of the development

Dubai-based carrier Emirates has suspended passenger flights from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka until July 15, following UAE government's directives to curb the spread of coronavirus

Emirates had suspended passenger flights from India effective until July 6, 2021

The company received a capital injection of 11.3 billion dirhams ($3.1 billion) from its owner, the government of Dubai.

Emirates said on Sunday it will not charge NGOs anything for transporting their COVID relief material on its flights from Dubai to India.

'Things will get worse for the Indian aviation industry before they get better,' says industry official