My mom flew EK 029 last week from Dubai to Heathrow in J and I got an angry text at boarding asking why I had put her on some horrible "non A380" plane. :p

I told her the service is much better on the non A380 planes and she seemed to be convinced. I was scared it was going to be changed to a deeply reclining plane (which has happened before)! Apparently her sister (who lives in London) was convinced all LHR routes had the A380.

I would say that's a major plus, especially on long routes like DXB-JFK.

Some more details where the passengers could come from:
http://www.routesonline.com/news/36/...ons-to-phuket/

Just the right time DME gets the A380 on 1st Dec.

BTW: A lot of Swedes like to go to Thailand/Bali (8% of Swedes travel abroad go to Asia/Pacific). It's about time EK to start ARN.

No. You asked:

and I gave you one area which could account for someone's preference.

No-one mentioned it as being a reason for flying until you came back with an attempt to mock that preference. 'Nuff said.

Any hints at when this will be announced?

No, but give it another 30 days or so.

The connectivity of the DXB HKT route seems to be improving somewhat during the summer schedule when the flight will leave DXB at 11.10am instead of 12.45pm:

From March 31:

EK378 DXB HKT 1110 2005
EK379 HKT DXB 0120 0450

I am new to this thread, so sorry if I'm going over old ground, but I was looking just now on ebookers for a flight between LHR-SIN in the run up to Singapore Grand Prix weekend, and it seems EK354 between DXB and SIN on Tues 18 Sep is now an A380?

SIN is well known to be EK's last major Asian airport that doesn't get the A380, so when was this announced? Is it a mistake? Or is it just Emirates anticipating more traffic to SIN for Singapore Grand Prix weekend?

Great news, I just hope it is for longer than the poster claimed in the previous page.

QR will launch daily flights to ORD next April. Any effects on EK might start or not start ORD?

EK better wake up and just announce the ORD flight. They will lose out on the good pax loads...

There are some destinations which i think EK has been overlooking for a long time and these are being taken over by QR.i.e. Mombasa, Zanzibar, and many exotic countries in Africa and Asia.

Sounds good...Also any insight on these items

Will it be daily?
Will it be non-stop? If they have the fifth freedom rights, could they do BOS-BCN/ATH-DXB similar to how they started JFK with JFK-HAM-DXB? Before the partnership with JetBlue, I thought that would be the only way Boston would get a gulf carrier would be via a tag-on from an unserved European destination.

I don't know the details but I can't see it being anything other than non-stop and daily.

Yeah, good idea! They better listen to those customers. They want to announced it. It will get some more tougher competition against EY.

Not yet. I'm sure EK will announced it. They will take care of it.

Right, they have wait for 30 days. Try to be more patiently. When EK will announced it.

Perth will most likely be a new 380 destination in 2013. :)