Emirates Now Offers Senegal Connection

Emirates Now Offers Senegal Connection

Emirates has strengthened its links to West Africa with the launch of a new direct service from Dubai to Dakar.

Like most of the airline’s other routes to Africa, the new service provides connections at Dubai with Emirates’ services from New Zealand.

Dakar has now become the airline's 105th destination, creating the only non-stop, scheduled passenger link between Dubai and Senegal. The new route will cut current journey times to Dakar by around the equivalent of an eight hour working day, creating an easy, fast and convenient service for business and leisure travellers.

Nigel Page, Emirates’ Senior Vice President of Commercial Operations, Africa & the Americas, said: “Today marks a new chapter in air travel between the Middle East and West Africa. No more will passengers travelling to and from Senegal face long detours to Europe or other parts of Africa to reach their final destination.”

EK 797 departs Dubai at 0955hrs every Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday and arrives in Dakar at 1600hrs. EK 798 leaves the Senegalese capital at 1740hrs and gets into Dubai at 0715hrs the following day.

An Airbus A340-300 is being deployed on the route, offering 12 seats in First Class, 42 in Business and 213 in Economy.

The new Dakar route caps an exceptionally busy few months for the airline. Since the start of the summer, Emirates has announced orders for an additional 30 Boeing 777-300ER and 32 Airbus A380 aircraft; and placed a US$2 billion order for GE90-115B Engines to power the new B777s.

Dakar is the fifth new route to be launched by Emirates this year. The others are Tokyo, Amsterdam, Prague and Madrid.

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