Addd From United States of America, joined May 2007, 397 posts, RR: 0 Posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 5537 times:
With 23 new aircraft (including 4 A380s) joining the fleet in 2008, Emirates is bound to expand its route network, and there seems to be no shortage of rumors about possible new destinations.... here are some - to name just a few:
Europe
- Prague (PRG)
- Copenhagen (CPH)
- Stockholm (ARN)
- St Petersburg (LED)
- Barcelona (BCN)
North America
- Chicago (ORD)
- Montreal (YUL)
Asis
- Almaty (ALA)
- Tashkent (TAS)
- Chengdu (CTU)
- Ho Chi Min (SGN)
- Amritsar (ATQ)
Stylo777 From Turkey, joined Feb 2006, 2870 posts, RR: 12 Reply 1, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 5519 times:
there were some rumours about a new destination in Turkey, most probably Ankara (ESB) with A332 equipment. as much as I would love to see them starting that route as much I doubt it. but looking at the Turkish market a second daily 332 flight to IST is more likely...
C172Akula From Canada, joined Mar 2001, 979 posts, RR: 5 Reply 2, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 5504 times:
I would add YYC to that list for North America. They came through YYC on September 24th and announced their intentions to serve YYC in the near future as soon as the bilateral can be worked out between Canada and the UAE. In fact I would dare say YYC will get the service before YUL. One needs to look no farther than LH's new service starting to YYC in April, where they will be offering an exclusive membership for Oil and Gas business travellers to get more points and upgrades due to the industry they work in. Emirates as well must recognize the value of YYC having all the oil and gas company HQ's here and want to capitalize on that with its network into the Middle East.
I can see Guangzhou and (may be) Lisbon, but why Caracas or Luanda? A mere fact of these two being capitals of oil-producing countries does not, IMHO, mean that there is any significant demand for flights between Middle East and these cities...
Sebring From Canada, joined Jul 2004, 1658 posts, RR: 15 Reply 5, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 5443 times:
Quoting C172Akula (Reply 2): I would add YYC to that list for North America. They came through YYC on September 24th and announced their intentions to serve YYC in the near future as soon as the bilateral can be worked out between Canada and the UAE. In fact I would dare say YYC will get the service before YUL. One needs to look no farther than LH's new service starting to YYC in April, where they will be offering an exclusive membership for Oil and Gas business travellers to get more points and upgrades due to the industry they work in. Emirates as well must recognize the value of YYC having all the oil and gas company HQ's here and want to capitalize on that with its network into the Middle East.
First they have to get around the fact that the Canadian government has signalled in no uncertain terms that upgrading that bilateral is not a priority. Relations between the two governments are not at their best, and whether aviation is the reason, or the hostage, is hard to say, but right now I'd say that efforts by the UAE to strongarm the Canadian government are unlikely to succeed.
F1eddie From Ireland, joined May 2007, 461 posts, RR: 0 Reply 6, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 5416 times:
Quoting Stylo777 (Reply 1): DUB is also a big fish in Europe
Yup there are rumors that EI is going to pull DXB to put the AC on north american routes and if they do im sure they will be in like a shot. Time will only tell
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Stylo777 From Turkey, joined Feb 2006, 2870 posts, RR: 12 Reply 7, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 5404 times:
Quoting Addd (Reply 4): I can see Guangzhou and (may be) Lisbon, but why Caracas or Luanda? A mere fact of these two being capitals of oil-producing countries does not, IMHO, mean that there is any significant demand for flights between Middle East and these cities...
you never know! this is Emirates and sometimes the choose of destinations isn't that logical.
Addd From United States of America, joined May 2007, 397 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 hours ago) and read 5367 times:
So, here comes the updated list:
Europe
- Prague (PRG)
- Copenhagen (CPH)
- Stockholm (ARN)
- St Petersburg (LED)
- Barcelona (BCN)
- Lisbon (LIS)
- Dublin (DUB)
North America
- Chicago (ORD)
Asia
- Almaty (ALA)
- Tashkent (TAS)
- Chengdu (CTU)
- Guangzhou (CAN)
- Ho Chi Min (SGN)
- Amritsar (ATQ)
- Ankara (ESB) - it still sounds like a possibility to me despite Stylo777's pessimism...
CYQL From Canada, joined Sep 2006, 80 posts, RR: 1 Reply 9, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 5313 times:
Quoting Sebring (Reply 5): First they have to get around the fact that the Canadian government has signalled in no uncertain terms that upgrading that bilateral is not a priority. Relations between the two governments are not at their best, and whether aviation is the reason, or the hostage, is hard to say, but right now I'd say that efforts by the UAE to strongarm the Canadian government are unlikely to succeed.
BoeingFever777 From United States of America, joined Jul 2009, 409 posts, RR: 56 Reply 12, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 5228 times:
Quoting Addd (Reply 11): Quoting Ssides (Reply 10):
IAH-DXB will go from 3x weekly to daily
... but Emirates does not fly to IAH at the moment. If anything, it is a possible new destination for 2008.
FWAERJ From United States of America, joined Jun 2006, 3175 posts, RR: 1 Reply 16, posted (5 years 6 months 3 weeks ago) and read 5095 times:
Quoting Addd (Reply 8): North America
- Chicago (ORD)
Don't forget LAX, IAD, and/or SFO... EK is very interested in serving those cities. In fact, EK almost launched nonstop DXB-SFO in 2004 with the A345 (it was even loaded into CRS systems for a few days)... but if EK serves DXB-SFO nonstop, it's most likely to be with the 777-200LR (same goes for LAX). Either that, or a 777-300ER with a stop somewhere in Europe.
As for ORD and IAD, they would most likely be a nonstop 773ER to DXB, as the 773ER has the range to do ORD/IAD-DXB nonstop.
Addd From United States of America, joined May 2007, 397 posts, RR: 0 Reply 18, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 4976 times:
Quoting Stylo777 (Reply 13): Quoting Addd (Reply 11):
... but Emirates does not fly to IAH at the moment. If anything, it is a possible new destination for 2008.
maybe you mixed up IAH with IAH in your mind... IAD was also in talks several months ago...
I did indeed - I was thinking Washington-Dulles (IAD).... of course, they are starting Houston (IAH) in Novemnber 2007.
MAH4546 From Sweden, joined Jan 2001, 31118 posts, RR: 73 Reply 19, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 23 hours ago) and read 4969 times:
While certainly not in 2008, they've already indiciated that Miami is a question of when, not if. I think we will see at least two new U.S. cities in 2008. Chicago and San Francisco are my wildcard guesses, with 2-3 new North American cities coming online each year through at least 2011.
Whilst DUB is doing extremely well for EY and loads are 80% and over if EK came on the route this would be divided between them. DUB can sustain one carrier DUB-AUH/DXB and onwards to Far East , Australia but I doubt 2 Middle East carriers would do as well as EY is now. Its 50/50 as to whether EK will come to DUB. EY have established themselves very well here and EK would have to go head to head against them.
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Bond007 From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 5098 posts, RR: 8 Reply 23, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 4888 times:
Add MZJ, GYR, VCV, and ROW in the next few years ... maybe later.
One-ways.
Jimbo
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Sqb7e From New Zealand, joined Feb 2007, 71 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (5 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 21 hours ago) and read 4858 times:
I hope they do start Chengdu, its such an awesome city! Does anyone see this as being likely?
25 B752OS: That is quite a bit of expansion, that could be anywhere from 8-11 new cities. Not including YYZ, IAH that leaves only a few possibilities. Any guess
26 Antskip: EK has a far superior network both sides of there respective hubs in the UAE. For example, in Australasia, EK has a very significant presence in AKL,
27 Flyyul: When people make comments on these boards, do they have any sense of market sizes? Its great to speculate, but EK has data on market sizes, and acts a
28 Aussie747: I am surprised ADL is not on the list.
29 C010T3: GRU will most likely not go double daily any time soon, since EK has already applied to frequencies to GIG. DXB-GIG-EZE is what it is being rumoured.
30 MAH4546: My entirely uneducated guesses would be something along the lines of... 2008: O'Hare, San Francisco 2009: Dulles, Los Angeles, Mexico City 2010: Miam
31 Stylo777: first I thought the same and would love to see that route, but there are no traffic rights at the moment which allows EK to fly to the Netherlands. O
32 C172Akula: I made my comments based on statements by EK with regards to YYC when they came through here in September. If that is not good enough to put us on th
33 AeroMexico777: HI! Is there any rumors of EK coming to MEX? It would be superb to see their airliners arriving here... maybe 777LR? Regards, AeroMexico777
34 Sebring: Well, sometimes airlines say things to whip up airport authorities so they will support their desire for expanded bilateral rights, but something lik
35 CPH757: Perhaps not any O&D traffic between Dubai and Luanda. I could imagine that they could capture a good bit of the fast-growing China-Angola market, esp
36 AM744: I could see them landing here if and only if they are granted 5th freedom rights to/from a point in Europe. Not very likely IMO.
37 Sebring: That assumes everything across the Pacific remains status quo. I do not make that assumption. A Pacific nonstop to DEL is likely within the timeframe
38 FLYYUL: Emirates has literally listed every major North American international city as a candidate for service. Including Seattle, Boston etc.
39 Flying lsd: and brussels,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,??????????????
40 Behramjee: My speculated list for EK in 2008 based upon news articles, comments made by EK management over the last year etc would be as follows : North America
41 AA1818: I don't think so! I'll take a stab and include some personal biases! EDI DUB BCN CPT LIS CPH PRG ORD YUL AA1818
42 JFK787NYC: Tel Aviv LOL Joke When Emirates starts flying A380s to cities like New York? Will their prices go down alittle bit?
43 LXA340: Maybe GVA, I could see quite some demand there. Also wasn't there once a rumour about NUE...would be the very first long haul flight for Nurnberg, Ger
44 Mike1974: to my understanding the UAE and Mexico signed a memerandium aviation bilateral agreement which gives 5th freedom rights to EK to fly into MEX from Eu
45 Lightsaber: Really? Wow... interesting bilateral for Dubai to sign. There is a big hole in EK's route map in that part of Europe... If it does anything like thei
46 AeroMexico777: Hope so.... May it be via MXP or FCO ? As currently we dont have any direct flight to Italy Regards, AeroMexico777
48 Addd: I guess AeroMexico777 meant there are currently no direct flights between MEXICO and Italy...
49 Stylo777: that's for sure, I understood that already, but due to the actual schedule which is a triangle flight I don't think they make an additional tag-on to
50 Jambo: What about Harare Lilongwe Lusaka and kigali. I know the Zimbabwean Govt. is trying to bring in Emirates after BA and now most likely Ethiopian pullin
51 Stylo777: what do you think of a multi-stop flight to HRE/LUN/HRE and a tag-on to WDH???
52 YVR1968: . Just because a roadshow makes a pitstop in a particular city does not mean anything. SQ just brought their A380 show here to Melbourne and there is
53 Philly65: I think PRG is a long shot along with ARN, LIS, DUB, and WAW. Tashkent and Alma Aty should have been served long ago. I think a California city (prob
54 Evolv: Just wanted to point out that Emirates Cargo has their Canadian head office in Calgary. I think much of Emirates interest comes from amount of high y
55 Avianca: even they could get a part of the Europe-Luanda traffic via DXB !!!! as seen on JNB runs.... well Venezuela has a bigger Middle East comunity ! Speci
56 Super80DFW: At DFW, we are waiting for both QF and EK to announce nonstop service!
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