In order to meet sustained demands ahead of the holidays, Emirates announced that it has boosted its services to London’s Gatwick Airport (LGW) by adding a third daily Airbus A380 service from Dubai International Airport (DXB).
The additional flight will increase the capacity to more than 1,000 seats to/from LGW to DXB daily.
.@emirates ramps up its operations to Gatwick Airport with the addition of a third daily A380 flight. The airline continues to scale up its UK operations to meet sustained demand ahead of the holiday rush. pic.twitter.com/13VHKDzUkY
— Dubai Media Office (@DXBMediaOffice) December 6, 2022
The three daily services to LGW will depart on the following schedule:
- EK11 will depart DXB at 02:50
- EK15 will depart DXB at 07:40
- EK09 will depart DXB at 14:25
- DXB - LGW has a flight time of about seven hours and 55 minutes.
With the latest daily service addition to London Gatwick, Emirates now has a total of 119 weekly flights to the UK across seven hubs:
- six times daily to London Heathrow
- three times daily to London Gatwick
- daily service to London Stansted
- three times daily to Manchester
- double daily service to Birmingham
- daily flights to Newcastle
- daily service to Glasgow.