Emirates will launch a daily service between Dubai and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, on December 15, 2016.
The new service will serve the South Florida area, including Fort Lauderdale, Miami, and West Palm Beach. This will be Emirates’ 11th passenger route in the United States.
The airline will operate a Boeing 777-200LR aircraft in a three-class configuration on the route, offering 8 First Class suites, 42 Business Class lie-flat beds and 216 Economy Class seats.
Emirates’ daily flight EK213 will depart Dubai (DXB) at 0300 local time and arrive in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) at 1025.
The return flight EK214 will depart FLL at 2020 arriving in Dubai at 1940 the following day, with a flying time of 14 hours and 20 minutes.
Emirates has onward connections as a result of its codeshare partnership with JetBlue Airways (B6) with connections to 26 destinations in the US and 19 destinations throughout the Caribbean and Latin America, including the Bahamas, Cancun and Havana.
Emirates also flies to nearby Orlando International Airport, allowing travellers to fly into one airport and out of the other.
Emirates has carried more than 14 million passengers on U.S. flights since launching services to New York in 2004. The airline currently serves 10 U.S. gateways – Orlando (MCO), Chicago (ORD), Boston (BOS), San Francisco (SFO), Los Angeles (LAX), Seattle (SEA), Dallas (DFW), Houston (IAH), Washington (IAD) and New York (JFK), as well as operating a trans-Atlantic route between JFK and Milan and freighter services to Atlanta and Columbus.
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