My wife and I will be flying next month JFK-DXB on EK Flt. 204 which arrives DXB at 8:10 a.m. We will then be flying on to SYD connecting to EK Flt. 412 which departs DXB at 10:15 a.m. Both our arriving and departing flights are out of Terminal 3 at DXB. So I have a few questions regarding the connection. 1. Is the 2 hour connection time sufficient? If it matters we are flying F on both flights. 2. Will we have to clear customs and immigration at DXB since we are In-Transit Passengers? and 3. If we have time with our connection is there a EK FC Lounge in Terminal 3? Many thanks in advance for any sage advice and guidance.

Two hours should be plenty of time to make the connection. The downside is that you will not have time to enjoy the F lounge in DXB. You do not need to clear customs, but you do go through security in DXB. This this routing I suspect in DXB you will both arrive and depart from the A380 concourse. Enjoy the trip.

- 2 hour connection should be sufficient if things are on time (at least on-time by EK standards). You should be off the plane at around 0830-0840. Allow 20 minutes for the walk to and clearance of security. Terminal 3 has 3 concourses, A, B and C. The "A380 concourse" is a bit of misnomer/marketing gimmick. A380s depart from all 3 concourses (although rarely C). You will find that there may be people stopping to check the flight information screens after you disembark: I recommend you skip that and head straight to security and check the screens after security clearance up in the shopping mall/concourses if you want to try and grab some lounge time. If all goes well, you should be in the main terminal at about 0900.

- You will not need to clear customs or immigration as JTXC has mentioned

- There are F lounges in all 3 concourses. Assuming you are out of security at around 0900 you should have some time to grab some food/drink/15 min massage if you like to cut things close/shoe shine if you're in FCL B and it's available as a 1015 departure should be boarding at around 0940-0945. Of course please do look at the screens / listen for announcements in the lounge. If your flight to SYD departs from the same concourse as you end up disembarking to, you are in luck, otherwise it's a train and a walk that will take up about 10-15 minutes of your time depending on the train wait/your walk speed. You can tell which concourse you are in by looking at the A/B/C prefix to gate numbers.

-FCL A can be boarded directly from the lounge. FCL B you may or may not be boarding from the same level as the lounge, but it's not inside as it is in A. FCL C, well, you will be walking :P

Hopefully that has answered any lingering questions!

Enjoy your trip~

JTXC and Externaltransit many thanks for your quite informative responses!!!

Is it standard at a lot of airports to go through security when transiting (security as in metal detectors/bag scanned/shoes off etc)? Or is that just a DXB thing?

Pretty standard on international connections at most airports.