Emirates to Go All-A380 to London Heathrow

News Release, 6 July 2012

Emirates to Go All-A380 to London Heathrow

Emirates’ five daily flights to London Heathrow will all be served by A380s by February next year, firmly establishing the airline as the principal double-decker operator into the British capital.

Combined with the daily Manchester A380 service, this will mean the world’s largest A380 carrier will be sending 42 superjumbo flights each week to the UK, by far its biggest A380 market.

The news follows the announcements this week that Emirates will expand to a double-daily A380 service to Paris, and will add Moscow to the destinations it serves by A380, which include Auckland via Sydney and, from October, also via Melbourne. Travellers can already fly all the way by Emirates A380 from Auckland to London, Manchester, Paris, Munich and Rome, plus Amsterdam from August.

Emirates has steadily grown its London A380 operations since first deploying the aircraft on a scheduled service to Heathrow in December 2008, the year the airline started to receive deliveries of the world’s largest passenger jet aircraft.

The Emirates’A380, known for its quietness and fuel efficiency, takes airline travel to a higher plane. On the upper deck, there are 14 flat-bed First Class Private Suites with electrically operated doors and 76 fully-flat mini-pods in Business Class. Downstairs, depending on the configuration, there are 399 or 427 comfortable contoured seats in Economy Class, spread across four separate cabins.

The in-flight ice system offers more than 1,200 channels of information and entertainment across all cabin classes, and to enhance the enjoyment of a movies, music or on-demand games, cabin crew from across the world will serve delicious gourmet chef prepared food.
A personal satellite phone is fitted to each seat, which also carries a seat-back sms and email service, along with seat to seat calling and a "My USB" personal picture viewing facility. If customers want to be connected 24/7, they now have Wi-Fi access on all A380s in the fleet.

Next year, Emirates’ Terminal 3 in Dubai will receive a new pioneering neighbour, the world’s first dedicated A380 concourse.

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