Emirates has announced that it will ramp up services to London-Heathrow Airport (LHR) from Dubai International Airport (DXB) to provide passengers with more travel options for winter 2023.
The Dubai-based airline will operate an additional five times weekly service to London-Heathrow starting from October 31, 2023 until March 30, 2024.
The airline currently serves London-Heathrow with six daily flights on its flagship Airbus A380 fleet.
The additional flights will operate on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays and will be served by the airline’s wide-body Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, fitted in a three-class configuration split between first, business and economy classes.
The new flights will operate on the following schedules:
EK41 departs Dubai at 13:20 local time and arrives at London Heathrow 17:20hrs, local time.
EK42 departs London Heathrow at 20:15 local time and arrives in Dubai at 07:15 local time, the following day.
Emirates currently serves the UK with 126 weekly flights including:
- six times daily A380 service to London Heathrow
- three times daily A380 service to Gatwick
- twice daily service to Stansted
- three times daily A380 service to Manchester
- double daily service to Birmingham (including a daily A380 service)
- daily service to Newcastle
- and a daily A380 service to Glasgow