All flight numbers in the 200, 700, 800, 900 series and any extra flights on these routes will now depart and arrive at Emirates Terminal 3 at Dubai International.

The first Emirates flights in phase two are: Emirates flights EK903 to Amman and EK913 to Damascus departing at 14:00 hours. The first flight to arrive at Emirates Terminal 3 will be EK912 from Damascus at 14:50 hours.

In the first five days of operations, Emirates Terminal 3 has handled 86 flight departures, 87 arrivals and a total of 36,000 passengers. More than 47,300 pieces of luggage have been handled by the baggage system, which is the largest and deepest of underground systems in the world.

Commenting on the first week of operations from Emirates Terminal 3, Tim Clark, President Emirates Airline said: “Emirates maintained schedule integrity, the baggage systems proved robust, passenger services were exemplary and we have received excellent feedback from our passengers. We could not have asked for a better opening week and we hope to move our entire operations to Emirates Terminal 3 by December this year.”

Paul Griffiths, CEO of Dubai Airports, expressed satisfaction with the way the opening phase of transition of operations to the new facility was handled. “In short, the opening went as planned and we are happy with the results. But we won’t rest on our laurels; we are acutely aware of our objectives for the remaining three phases, as well as the greater goal of meeting and eventually exceeding the expectations of all Dubai Airports’ customers.”

Flights to Europe will take-off in the third phase, escalating operations to 168 daily flights or 60% of all Emirates’ services. The fourth and final phase will include flights to the Indian Subcontinent, East Asia and Australasia, taking the total operations to 269 flights every day.

From 21-Oct-08, Emirates will fly to 32 online destinations from Emirates Terminal 3.
GCC/Middle East: Amman, Bahrain, Beirut, Damascus, Dhahran, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat, Riyadh, Sana’a and Tehran.

Africa: Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Entebbe, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tripoli and Tunisia.

Americas: New York, Houston, Sao Paulo and Toronto. Emirates will launch services to Los Angeles from 26-Oct-08 and San Francisco from 15-Dec.


(c) Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation. Date posted: 20-Oct-08

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