Emirates chief open to working closely with Etihad
Oct 13, 2017, 4:09 am
#31
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Interesting - would they not rather move EK to DWC and leave the existing DXB setup for all other airlines? Appreciate DWC is (or feels) a bit more 'remote', but then EK would get first dibs on the shiny new (and bigger) airport. Plus a quicker connection to AUH if this partnership does indeed happen.
Oct 13, 2017, 6:33 am
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Except that really wouldn’t be the customers concern or business, it would be labelled as transfering terminals, DXB would become terminal 1, DWC would become terminal 2 and AUH terminal 3 for example. LHR’s terminals are not geographically in the same place.
Oct 13, 2017, 9:41 am
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If I'm on a 3 hour transit, I want to spend it in the lounge rather than stuck on a train to a different city.
Oct 13, 2017, 10:09 am
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It would probably take 20 mins DXB-DWC and 40 mins DXB-AUH assuming they run separate trains and the DXB-AUH train doesn’t stop on the way.
Planes often taxi around the runway for 40 mins, and there’s no reason why the train cabins for F and J pax couldn’t be like a lounge.
Oct 13, 2017, 10:27 am
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Two things,
It would probably take 20 mins DXB-DWC and 40 mins DXB-AUH assuming they run separate trains and the DXB-AUH train doesn’t stop on the way.
Planes often taxi around the runway for 40 mins, and there’s no reason why the train cabins for F and J pax couldn’t be like a lounge.
It would probably take 20 mins DXB-DWC and 40 mins DXB-AUH assuming they run separate trains and the DXB-AUH train doesn’t stop on the way.
Planes often taxi around the runway for 40 mins, and there’s no reason why the train cabins for F and J pax couldn’t be like a lounge.
Oct 13, 2017, 11:17 am
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Oct 13, 2017, 11:19 am
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Oct 13, 2017, 11:25 am
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Yeeeeeees, but one would be a certainty (avoidable by a different routing) and the other could happen anywhere, or not.
Oct 13, 2017, 11:46 am
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If they want to stick people on a London Underground type train and have a loop that connects one terminal to the other but not to third (i.e. you can’t go directly from T4 to T5, you have to go to T123 first at LHR) that’s a different story, but Dubai and the UAE doesn’t really have any past record of creating such shoddy infrastructure does it now.
Oct 13, 2017, 12:04 pm
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Depending on the airport, yes. Some airports you can expect circling before landing and ridiculous taxing times, others are next to nothing. Still, you can easily spend 30 mins getting from T4 to T5 at LHR. Done in UAE style it would not be taking over 30 mins to get from DWC to DXB and would likely be a moving lounge.
If they want to stick people on a London Underground type train and have a loop that connects one terminal to the other but not to third (i.e. you can’t go directly from T4 to T5, you have to go to T123 first at LHR) that’s a different story, but Dubai and the UAE doesn’t really have any past record of creating such shoddy infrastructure does it now.
If they want to stick people on a London Underground type train and have a loop that connects one terminal to the other but not to third (i.e. you can’t go directly from T4 to T5, you have to go to T123 first at LHR) that’s a different story, but Dubai and the UAE doesn’t really have any past record of creating such shoddy infrastructure does it now.
Oct 13, 2017, 12:18 pm
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Agreed, most people would be put off at the thought, only us who know that EY and EK do such things well, would understand.
Oct 13, 2017, 9:03 pm
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Sorry to say but if the current train experience between terminals at DXB is any foreshadowing of the quality of what to expect in an inter-airport transfer, we are in big trouble. Maybe I am missing where to find the boarding platform for the F train?
Oct 14, 2017, 4:09 am
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The current train is a metro style train. I think we can all agree that what we have in mind is something more long distance with actual seating
Oct 14, 2017, 4:48 am
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