Emirates (airline)

An Emirates plane taking off from Heathrow airport

Emirates is an airline based in the United Arab Emirates. They are a subsidiary of The Emirates Group. They are the seventh biggest airline in the world, by number of passengers. Emirates Airline is the largest major airline in the Middle East. It is the national airline of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It runs more than 2400 passenger flights per week from its hub at Dubai International Airport Terminal 3, to 108 places in 60 countries. It goes to countries on six continents. The flight to San Francisco is now served by a Boeing 777-300ER. Emirates is a part of The Emirates Group, which has more than 50,000 employees, and is owned fully by the Government of Dubai directly under the Investment Corporation of Dubai. Cargo activities are done by the Emirates Group's Emirates SkyCargo division.

Arsenal, The English Premier League (Barclay's Premier League) is sponsored by the Airline.

Destinations

Emirates operate the following with cargo and passenger flights at October 2013;

• Africa

Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Conakry (begins 27 October 2013), Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti (cargo), Durban, Eldoret (cargo), Entebbe, Harare, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Lilongwe (cargo), Luanda, Lusaka, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tripoli, Tunis

• Americas

Boston (begins 10 March 2014), Buenos Aires, Campinas (cargo), Chicago (cargo), Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, Sao Paulo, Seattle, Toronto, Washington

• Asia

Ahmedabad, Almaty (cargo), Amman, Baghdad, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok, Basra, Beijing, Beirut, Chennai, Chittagong (cargo), Clark, Cochin, Colombo, Delhi, Dhahran, Dhaka, Doha, Dubai, Erbil, Guangzhou, Hanoi (cargo), Ho Chi Minh, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jakarta, Jeddah, Kabul (begins 4 December 2013), Karachi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lahore, Maldives, Manila, Medina, Mumbai, Muscat, Osaka, Peshawar, Phuket, Riyadh, Sana'a, Seoul, Shanghai, Sialkot (begins 6 November 2014), Singapore, Taipei (begins 14 February 2014), Tehran, Thiruvanathapuram

• Europe

Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Gothenburg (cargo), Hamburg, Istanbul, Kiev (begins 16 January 2014), Larnaca, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Newcastle, Nice, Paris, Prague, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zaragoza (cargo), Zurich

• Oceania

Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Christchurch, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

Fleet

The Emirates passenger and cargo aircraft fleet is made up of the following widebody aircraft as of November 2013:

Emirates Passenger Fleet

Aircraft	In Service	Orders	Options	Passengers				Notes
				F	C	Y	Total
Airbus A330-200	23	—	—	12 0	42 27	183 251	237 278
Airbus A340-300	4	—	—	12	42	213	267
Airbus A340-500	9	—	—	12	42	204	258	To be phased out
Airbus A350-900	—	50	50	TBA
Airbus A350-1000	—	20	—	TBA
Airbus A380-800	41	99	—	14	76	399 427	489 517	Largest A380 operator
Boeing 777-200	3	—	—	0	42	304	346
Boeing 777-200ER	6	—	—	12	42	236	290
Boeing 777-200LR	10	—	—	8	42	216	266	Tied with Delta Air Lines for the largest 777-200LR operator
Boeing 777-300	12	—	—	12	42	310	364	Tied with Cathay Pacific for the largest 777-300 operator
Boeing 777-300ER	90	61	20	8 12 0	42 42 42	304 310 385	354 364 427	Largest 777-300ER operator
Boeing 777-8X	—	35		TBA
Boeing 777-9X	—	115	50	TBA
Total	198	380	120

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