Emirates revives A380 New York service

Wednesday, 12 Nov, 2009 0

Emirates is to reintroduce its A380 Dubai to New York service next year after seeing business pick up in Wall Street.

The airline cancelled flights using the super jumbo in June and redeployed two double decker Airbuses to its Toronto and Bangkok routes.
But the airline’s divisional senior vice-president commercial operations worldwide Richard Vaughan told a World Travel Market audience that services would resume in 2010 as Emirates agreed with Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed that Dubai was on the upward slope of the U-recession.
He said: “The service will go back later next year because we have seen that demand is starting to come back. The last 12 months have been challenging but we have had a successful first half of the year.”
Vaughan also added that although corporate travel had nosedived, its premium leisure market had been surprisingly impervious to the recession. “Those paying for their own tickets, and travelling to places like Mauritius, the Maldives and the Seychelles, have kept on travelling.”

By Dinah Hatch



 

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