A6-EGH on her delivery today.

Cheers,

EK433B77W! ^

that's not always the case if you includes the additional costs for station/slot fees, as well as crew hotels, fuel...etc

But it can't make money sitting on the ground. It may, however not lose money by incurring the costs you mention. Presumably this has been influential in EK's decision making.

EK is a business trying to make money based on business sense, not an armchair CEO or frequent flier's dream or reasoning.

I don't have the numbers on how much does EK pay for landing fees, airport fees, crew hotel fees, expenses on single sector for certain route, but it doesn't mean one can simply say "aircraft may not lose money by incurring the costs (I mentioned) as long as it stays in the air, not on the ground", unless you know how exactly much EK is paying.

SIN market is quite competitive where you have low-cost carriers lowering average fare and (on some cases) destroying yield.

If EK thinks the average price tag on a certain route (ex-SIN, ex-DXB, and from any of the EK worldwide destination) is able to offset the operational costs and expenses on the long run, then they will start a tag-on route. If EK thinks it's not worth it then they'll just let the plane idle on the ground (at least it faces 0 risk of losing money).

You also probably forgot the fact that when the oil price was over $100/barrel 2-3 years ago, the more and the longer an aircraft stays in the air, it makes more loss.

Now that's a milestone bringing the 77W fleet to 60 examples. ;)

The yields will always be higher in DXB/SIN and vv. If EK can fill up the plane at high fares, they don't need to sell tickets to and from XYZ. A tag on only makes sense if seats are flying empty and filling them up offsets the cost of the additional flights.

SIN has very low parking and landing fees, though crew hotels would be more expensive than elsewhere.

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...-clark-363647/

EK getting set for trans Pacific connections. ;)

WOW! This is great news! Good find mate - Cheers ^

Interesting.

Emirates has been talking about this for years. Using NZ for trans-pacific is likely too low yielding, and using Australia has difficulties getting rights (even when rights are granted they are sometimes arbitrarily withdrawn).

Indeed...Very good to hear. Let's wait for another EK#17 A380 will accept delivery sometime next week.

I don't think it happening anytime soon. It was way too low-yielding but, it's not right choice for EK to start direct flight to USA from SYD, MEL, BNE, CNS. However, EK will not able to have a fifth freedom traffic rights through DXB-Australia-USA.

Emirates Operation Changes as of 25OCT11
 

Source: http://airlineroute.net/2011/10/24/ek-w11update2/

All changes are in effect from 30OCT11, unless otherwise noted. Additional changes remain possible:

Dubai – Cairo 12 weekly service maintained. Planned 13th weekly service cancelled
Dubai – Dakar Service increase from 4 to 6 weekly (Previously planned increase to 5 weekly)
Dubai – Dusseldorf eff 01NOV11 EK057/058 Airbus A340-300 replace A330-200 (Previously planned eff 01DEC11)
Dubai – Guangzhou eff 11NOV11 Daily Boeing 777-300ER service with First Class Suites, replace 2 weekly with Regular First Class and 5 weekly First Class Suite (Previously to be in effect from 30OCT11)
Dubai – Hamburg
eff 08NOV11 EK059/060 Boeing 777-300ER (with suites) replaces -300 (Previously planned from 30OCT11)
eff 01FEB12 EK061/062 Boeing 777-300ER (with Suites) replaces -200ER (Plan remains unchanged)
Dubai – Tunis Increase from 5 to 6 weekly. Planned Increase to Daily from 01DEC11 cancelled
Dubai – Vienna Planned service increase from 13 to 14 weekly from 01DEC11 is cancelled. EK125/126 continues to operate 6 weekly A340-500 flight

Previously mentioned changes:
Dubai – Accra – Abidjan eff 01FEB12 Airbus A340-500 replace -300
Dubai – Baghdad eff 13NOV11 NEW 4 weekly 3-class A330-200 service
Dubai – Bangalore eff 02DEC11 EK564/565 Airbus A340-300 replace A330-200, except Day 4 (previously planned Daily)
Dubai – Basra All 4 weekly service operates with 3-class A330-200 (Currently 1 of 4 weekly operates with 2-class)
Dubai – Casablanca eff 01FEB12 Boeing 777-300ER with Suites replacing Airbus A340-500
Dubai – Colombo – Singapore eff 01DEC11 Boeing 777-300 replace -300ER (Day 7 service planned 777-200 replace -300 canceled)
Dubai – Copenhagen eff 01FEB12 3-class Boeing 777-200ER replace Airbus A330-200
Dubai – Dallas eff 02FEB12 NEW Daily Boeing 777-200LR Service
EK221 DXB0245 – 0905DFW 77L D
EK222 DFW1150 – 1220+1DXB 77L D

Dubai – Delhi EK514/515 Boeing 777-200LR replace A340-500
Dubai – Dublin eff 09JAN12 NEW Daily A330-200 service
EK161 DXB0700 – 1130DUB 332 D
EK162 DUB1255 – 0025+1DXB 332 D

Dubai – Frankfurt
eff 30OCT11 Increase from 14 to 18 weekly (new flight EK043/044), further increase to 21 weekly from 01DEC11
eff 01DEC11 EK047/048 Boeing 777-300ER with Suites, replacing non-suite -300ER
EK043 DXB0320 – 0735FRA 332 D
EK044 FRA1000 – 1915DXB 332 D

Day x134 operates until 30NOV11

Dubai – Hamburg eff 01FEB12 EK061/062 Boeing 777-300ER with First Class Suite replace -200ER
Dubai – Hong Kong eff 02DEC11 NONSTOP service Increases from Daily to 12 weekly. New flight operates with A330-200
EK382 DXB0320 – 1430HKG 332 x24
EK383 HKG1605 – 2120DXB 332 x24

Dubai – Houston eff 01FEB12 Reduces from 2 to 1 Daily, EK213/214 cancelled
Dubai – Hyderabad eff 01DEC11 EK526/527, EK528/529 Airbus A340-300 replace A330-200
Dubai – Islamabad Increases from 5 to 7 weekly
Dubai – Khartoum Increase from 4 to 6 weekly, further increase to Daily from 05DEC11
Dubai – Kuala Lumpur eff 01JAN12 EK346/347 Airbus A380 replaces 777-300 (Previously planned from 01DEC11)
Dubai – Kuala Lumpur – Melbourne Boeing 777-300ER with Suites replace -300ER with regular First Class Seating
Dubai – Lahore Increases from 4 to 7 weekly
Dubai – London Heathrow eff 01DEC11 EK005/006 Boeing 777-300ER with Suites replace -300
Dubai – Lusaka – Harare eff 01FEB12 NEW 5 weekly 3-class A330-200 service
EK713 DXB0925 – 1450LUN1620 – 1720HRE 332 x46
EK714 HRE1920 – 2020LUN2150 – 0710+1DXB 332 x46

Dubai – Madrid Airbus A340-300 replaced by Boeing 777-300ER
30OCT11 – 30NOV11/01MAR12 – 24MAR12 777-300ER with Suites
01DEC11 – 29FEB12 777-300ER non suites

Dubai – Male Planned Boeing 777-300ER with Suites replace -300ER with regular First Class Seating, CANCELED
Dubai – Mauritius Frequency Increases
eff 30OCT11 Increase from 9 to 10 weekly
eff 01DEC11 Increase from 10 to 11 weekly

Dubai – Milan Malpensa eff 01DEC11 EK091/092 3-class 777-300 (non suites) replace Airbus A340-300
Dubai – Moscow Domodedovo EK131/132 Boeing 777-300ER with Suites operates Daily (currently 5 times a week with Suites)
Dubai – Munich
EK051/052 Daily A340-300, replace 6 weekly A340-300 and 1 weekly A330-200
EK049/050 eff 25NOV11 Airbus A380 replaces Boeing 777-300

Dubai – Nairobi eff 01FEB12 EK719/720 Airbus A340-300 replace A330-200
Dubai – Nice Airbus A340-300 replace A330-200, Daily
Dubai – Osaka Day 23 service continues to operate with 777-200LR, replace -300ER. Overall service remains Daily
Dubai – Peshawar Increases from 2 to 3 weekly
Dubai – Prague eff 01JAN12 3-class Boeing 777-300 replace 2-class Airbus A330-200. Introduction of Regular First Class
Dubai – Rio de Janeiro – Buenos Aires eff 03JAN12 NEW Daily 777-300ER with Suitesservice
Dubai – Rome eff 01DEC11
EK095/096 Boeing 777-300ER with Regular First Class replace Airbus A330-200
EK097/098 Airbus A380 replaces 777-300

Dubai – St. Petersburg eff 01NOV11 NEW Daily Nonstop service with A330-200/A340-300 (From 01JAN12 service operates with A340-300/-500)
EK137 DXB1035 – 1615LED 343 x1
EK137 DXB1035 – 1615LED 332 1

EK138 LED1745 – 0035+1DXB 343 x1
EK138 LED1745 – 0035+1DXB 332 1

EK137/138 Day 1 service operates with A340-500 from 02JAN12

Dubai – Seattle eff 01MAR12 NEW Daily Boeing 777-300ER service
EK229 DXB0950 – 1350SEA 77W D
EK230 SEA1725 – 1855+1DXB 77W D

Dubai – Seychelles Reduce from 11 to 10 weekly
Dubai – Shanghai Pu Dong
eff 30OCT11 EK302/303 A380 continues to operate 3 times a week
eff 01DEC11 EK304/305 Boeing 777-300ER replace Airbus A340-300

Dubai – Singapore eff 30OCT11 NONSTOP sector Increases from 14 to 19 weekly, further increases to 21 weekly from 01FEB12
EK354 DXB0325 – 1445SIN 77W D
EK355 SIN0200 – 0510DXB 77W D

EK354/355 operates Day x23 until 30JAN12

Dubai – Tokyo Narita Increases from 5 weekly to Daily, Boeing 777-300ER operating

Thanks for the information mate.

Some nice changes there.

^

Tomorrow, EK will accept #17 A380 delivery and the registration number is A6-EDQ.

And 2 more A380 will expect to delivery sometime on November. The registration number is A6-EDR/S.

If it takes you 10 seconds to copy everything, why not spend extra 5 seconds to copy the link or at least citing the source?

Especially it took me over an hour to go through the changes route by route, month by month. Seriously I'm thinking to throw in the "no copy/no right mouse click" html script when I do the next major upgrade for the website.