Emirates has announced a series of aircraft deployments and product upgrades across its network, extending the reach of Premium Economy and delivering a more consistent experience for customers.<\/p>\n
As part of its ongoing retrofit programme, the airline is set to complete the upgrade of its first high-density, two-class A380 by mid-April. The aircraft will be reconfigured into a three-class layout featuring 76 Business Class seats, 56 Premium Economy seats, and 437 Economy Class seats.<\/p>\n
The first upgraded aircraft will operate flights EK903\/904 between Dubai and Amman from 14 April to 31 May, before moving to Prague on EK139\/140 from 1 June. By November, Emirates expects to have retrofitted all 15 of its two-class A380s into the new three class configuration.<\/p>\n
The following additional aircraft deployments are set to take place from March*:<\/p>\n
Europe and North America<\/strong><\/p>\n New York JFK<\/strong>: From 1 April, flights EK201\/202 will be served by a four-class retrofitted A380 on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays, increasing to a daily service from 1 June.<\/p>\n Zurich<\/strong>: From 1 March, Emirates will operate a four-class A380 featuring Premium Economy on flights EK085\/086. With this upgrade, the airline will offer more than 1500 weekly seats in Premium Economy to and from Zurich.<\/p>\n Milan<\/strong>: Emirates will operate flights EK101\/102 with a retrofitted, three-class Boeing 777-200LR fitted with Premium Economy from 10 May.<\/p>\n Dublin<\/strong>: Emirates will operate flights EK165\/166 with a three-class retrofitted Boeing 777-200LR from 25 October. Once deployed, all 21 weekly flights to Dublin will offer Premium Economy.<\/p>\n Asia<\/strong><\/p>\n Ho Chi Minh City<\/strong>: From 1 May, flights EK392\/393 will be operated with a three-class retrofitted Boeing 777-200LR. With this upgrade, the airline will offer more than 600 weekly seats in Premium Economy to and from Ho Chi Minh City on double daily flights.<\/p>\n Hong Kong<\/strong>: Emirates will upgrade flights EK382\/383 from a Boeing 777-300ER to an A380 from 1 October, transitioning to a retrofitted A380 fitted with Premium Economy from 1 December.<\/p>\n Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n Entebbe: Emirates will operate flights EK729\/730 with the new A350 from 29 March.<\/p>\n Middle East<\/strong><\/p>\n Basra<\/strong>: Emirates flights EK945\/946 will be operated with a retrofitted four-class Boeing 777-300ER starting from 1 May, offering Premium Economy across all five weekly flights to Basra.<\/p>\n Indian Ocean<\/strong><\/p>\n Mauritius<\/strong>: Emirates will operate a retrofitted three-class Boeing 777-200LR on flights EK709\/710 from 29 March.<\/p>\n Emirates will further deploy a three class A380 on flights EK362\/363 between Dubai and Guangzhou from 1 October, offering seats in First, Business and Economy Class.<\/p>\n Tickets can be booked on emirates.com, the Emirates App, or via both online and offline travel agents as well as Emirates\u2019 retail stores. WeChat Pay is available on emirates.com.<\/p>\n * Aircraft deployment may be advanced if released earlier from refurbishment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Emirates has announced a series of aircraft deployments and product upgrades across its network, extending the reach of Premium Economy and delivering a more consistent experience for customers. As part of its ongoing retrofit programme, the airline is set to complete the upgrade of its first high-density, two-class A380 by mid-April. The aircraft will be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22547,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22543\/revisions\/22547"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleasenetwork.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}