Emirates

Emirates will be increasing its frequencies to key Indian destinations effective July 2008. This is being made possible due to the recent bilateral enhancements allowed for UAE carriers to increase capacity to India from their respective hub airports. The additional operational highlights for EK in India are as follows:

HYD - increased from 11 to 18 times a week. From July, 5 additional flights will be flown using an A 332 four times a week + one B 773. From Oct, two more weekly flights will be flown using a B 772.

DEL - increased from 14 to 18 times a week. From July, all 4 additional flights will be flown using a B 772.

BLR - increased from 8 to 15 times a week. From July, 2 additional flights will be flown using a B 772 and from Oct, the remaining 5 flights will be added using a B 772 as well.

Besides increasing India, EK's Chairman has recently announced publicly in an interview that one new USA destination, Algiers plus one new Far East Asia destination will be added to the network this year. According to many, ORD-Chicago will be the new USA destination being flown nonstop from DXB using a B 777-300ER.