Emirates (airline)
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]
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| Founded | 25 March 1985 | |||
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| Commenced operations | 25 October 1985 | |||
| Hubs | Dubai International Airport | |||
| Frequent-flyer program | Emirates Skywards | |||
| Fleet size | 262 | |||
| Destinations | 152 | |||
| Parent company | The Emirates Group | |||
| Employees | 45,843 (31 March 2022) | |||
Arsenal, The English Premier League (Barclay's Premier League) is sponsored by the Airline.
Destinations
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.
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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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As of January 2020[update], the Emirates mainline fleet consists of the following widebody aircraft:[11][12][13][14]
| Aircraft | In service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | |||
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| 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
As of January 2020, the Emirates Executive fleet consists of the following aircraft:[19]
| Aircraft | Fleet | Orders | Passengers |
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| Airbus ACJ319 | 1 | — | 10 (suites) 5 (beds) |
| Total | 1 | ||
Emirates (airline) Media
Emirates flight attendants
Emirates' logo (in Arabic) painted on one of its Airbus A380-800s' engines
An Emirates Boeing 777-300ER (painted in the Expo 2020 orange livery) at Sydney Airport
Emirates Air Line cable cars in London
An Emirates A380 in a special livery for the 2019 Cricket World Cup
The Emirates Stadium in London, home ground of Arsenal F.C.
An Emirates Boeing 777-200LR taking off from Los Angeles (LAX), one of the airline's longest nonstop flights
An Emirates Airbus A380 in current livery approaching Perth Airport (2024)
An Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777F arriving at Heathrow Airport
Emirates Airbus A300
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References
- ↑ "WATS - Yearly passengers carried". Archived from the original on 2010-03-23. Retrieved 2008-09-17.
- ↑ "Emirates to hire 700 pilots over next 18 months".
- ↑ "Flightlog - Emirates | Airfleets aviation".
- ↑ Emirates Announces 2009 Expansion Plan
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ GulfNews.com – Emirates and Dnata now under ICD Archived 2019-12-13 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ "Emirates SkyCargo". The Emirates Group. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
- ↑ "Emirates SkyCargo flight schedule". Archived from the original on 2010-12-30. Retrieved 2010-11-22.
- ↑ Emirates routemap
- ↑ Dubai Chronicle (December 30, 2013). "Emirates Announces Start of Boston Service". Press release. http://www.dubaichronicle.com/2013/09/19/emirates-flights-boston/. Retrieved March 10, 2014.
- ↑ "Emirates Fleet". ch-aviation.ch. ch-aviation. Retrieved 30 October 2013.
- ↑ "Our Fleet - The Emirates Experience". emirates.com. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
- ↑ 20 December 2016. "Emirates Fleet in Planespotters.net". planespotters.net. Archived from the original on 2018-07-01. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 "Emirates receives 100th Airbus A380 in Hamburg with Sheikh Zayed livery" (in en). The National. https://www.thenational.ae/business/aviation/emirates-receives-100th-airbus-a380-in-hamburg-with-sheikh-zayed-livery-1.672740#4. Retrieved 2017-11-04.
- ↑ Turak, Natasha; Smith, Eliot (2019-11-18). "Emirates orders 50 Airbus A350 jets worth a total $16 billion". CNBC. https://www.cnbc.com/2019/11/18/emirates-annoucnes-order-for-50-airbus-a350-jets.html. Retrieved 2019-11-18.
- ↑ Airbus. "Airbus and Emirates reach agreement on A380 fleet, sign new widebody orders" (in en). Press release. https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2019/02/airbus-and-emirates-reach-agreement-on-a380-fleet--sign-new-widebody-orders.html. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
- ↑ "Boeing: Commercial - Orders & Deliveries". Boeing Commercial. November 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2019.
- ↑ Curran, Andrew (20 November 2019). "Emirates Orders 30 Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners But Reduces 777X Deal". Simple Flying. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ↑ "Emirates Executive - Specifications". emirates-executive.com. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
