Emirates will launch a daily A380 service to Mumbai on July 21, the airline has confirmed
Flights EK500 and EK501 on the Dubai to Mumbai route, which is currently served by a B777-300ER aircraft, will be up-scaled to an A380. This represents a capacity increase of 2,127 seats per week in each direction.
The A380 will feature 14 first class suites, 76 business class fully-flat seats and 399 seats in economy.
Emirates has also confirmed it will deploy larger Boeing 777 aircraft to Delhi and Hyderabad to “serve growing demand”.
Delhi will have 980 additional one-way weekly seats, while Hyderabad will increase its capacity to add 672 one-way weekly seats.
Emirates said a combined total of 3,779 one-way weekly seats will be deployed on Mumbai, Delhi and Hyderabad through these aircraft upgrades. This follows the recent discussion between the government of Dubai and India, which provided a phased increase of 11,000 seats for Dubai carriers.
“We look forward to working with the new government in India to grow its economy through enhanced aviation connectivity and to realise India’s ambition to grow its international aviation market to 85 million passengers by 2020,” said Emirates’ senior VP of commercial operations, Ahmed Khoory.
Emirates.com