EMIRATES BRINGS THE BOEING 777-200LR TO ENTEBBE FROM TODAY
(Posted 01st October 2015)
When Emirates’ today lands in Entebbe it will be good bye to the smaller Airbus A330 and Hello Tomorrow for the newer and larger Boeing B777-200LR, giving more seats to the market and providing yet greater passenger comfort for Ugandan travellers.
The change had been announced several weeks ago already, getting industry tongues wagging over the capacity increase, for sure a bold move very likely aimed into the face of competitors flying with single aisle aircraft to Entebbe, and some of them not even daily.
Although ‘junior cousin’ FlyDubai now also flies daily to Entebbe has Emirates not suffered any drop in load factors or saw demand shift away to the cheaper option to reach Dubai nonstop or in fact shift in alarm raising volumes to newcomer Etihad, which is still fighting market perception of not operating daily flights and therefore, rightly or wrongly, being an inferior choice.
One of Emirates big upsides of course is the increasing use of the world’s largest passenger aircraft, the Airbus A380 to ever more destination out of Dubai, where in fact a dedicated A 380 terminal is in operation exclusively used by the airline to board and de-board passengers.
Happy Landings to the new aircraft on the route to Entebbe.
