Emirates to Fly A380 to Tokyo Narita and Melbourne

Posted 22/12/2011

United Arab Emirates (UAE) carrier Emirates Airline is to introduce the Airbus A380 on its flights from Dubai International to Tokyo Narita and Auckland via Melbourne as it takes delivery of additional aircraft during 2012. 

The carrier will use the A380 on a daily flight to the Japanese capital from July 1, 2012, while the type will be introduced on the daily Dubai – Melbourne – Auckland route from October 1, 2012.  Auckland is already served by the airline’s A380s from Dubai via Sydney.

In the last four weeks Emirates has introduced the A380 on its flights from Dubai to Munich and Rome Fiumicino and it now has 18 examples in service with a further 72 on order.  Alongside these new deployments the type is used on services to London Heathrow, Manchester, New York, Paris, Sydney, Auckland, Toronto, Bangkok, Seoul, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Beijing and Shanghai, while Kuala Lumpur will join the A380 network from January 1, 2012. 

Since being brought into service in August 2008, Emirates’ A380s have carried more than seven million passengers and flown more than 100 million kilometers, according to the carrier.

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