EMIRATES STEPS UP FLIGHTS TO THE US WITH THE ADDITION OF BOSTON AND CHICAGO
(Posted 25th February 2014)
Emirates’ announced their 9th destination to their network in the United States when setting the date of 05th August for the inaugural flight. This follows in the footsteps of Boston as the airline’s 8th destination, which is being launched next month as per an earlier announcement made and featured here. Emirates already flies to 7 US destinations, namely New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston and Dallas.
Emirates proposes to use a Boeing B777-200LR for the Chicago service, and when launched this will offer travelers from Eastern Africa, where Emirates serves Entebbe, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, one of the widest options when flying to the United States using one carrier and one stop only enroute.
Operating a fleet of now 212 aircraft, among them the largest number of Airbus A380 any airline operates around the world, Emirates now serves 140 destinations in 80 countries and continues to roll out more destinations as more aircraft are being delivered, providing the capacity to do so.
Meanwhile it was also learned that Emirates has signed a wide reaching MoU with Ecuador’s TAME airline, which will begin to uplift passengers and cargo originating from Emirates’ nonstop flights from Dubai into both New York and Sao Paulo / Brazil and then fly them to Quito, Ecuador’s capital city. Buenos Aires and Los Angeles, two cities where both TAME and Emirates are flying to, may be added at some time in the future to widen the range of connections from the UAE into South America, via Ecuador.
Watch this space for breaking and regular aviation news with relevance to the Eastern African markets.
