Emirates Launches 3 New A380 Routes This Week

Joe Cortez December 01, 2014

Expanded destinations for Emirates A380 from Dubai include flights to San Francisco, Houston, and Milan

The world’s largest commercial aircraft will start making daily flights to three new destinations this week, all operated by Emirates. The airline announced in a press release that the Airbus A380 will fly daily from Dubai International Airport (DXB) to Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH), Milan Malpensa Airport (MXP) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO). Each of the flights will begin the week of December 1, 2014.

The expanded routes will offer daily A380 service to each destination in both directions. The airline reports over four million people combined have flown to the destinations since their initial launch of service. Executives say offering the A380 will be an upgrade to the current customer experience.

“The logistics of launching three new A380 destinations would be, for many, an insurmountable task – but it’s challenges like this that the team at Emirates relish,” Hubert Frach, Emirates’ divisional senior vice president of commercial operations west, said in the release. “Ultimately it is about serving our customers, whom we know are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to experience our A380 based on the demand that we’ve seen on all our A380 routes to date.”

With the expansion, Emirates brings the number of added A380 destinations to 12 in the past year. In the past 12 months, the middle east carrier also added superjumbo service to Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport (DFW), Frankfurt Airport (FRA) and Mumbai International Airport (BOM).

Emirates now boasts a fleet of 55 A380 superjumbo aircraft, with 11 of the aircraft joining the fleet in 2014. The airline claims their fleet represents exactly one-third of all operating A380s, with over 32 million flyers served to date on the aircraft.

Correction: A previous version of this article incorrectly identified the IATA code for Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport.

[Photo: The Emirates Group]