Further details of Emirates' planned service reductions during next year's Dubai airport runway maintenance have emerged.
The airline will halve the number of flights it operates to cities including Amman, Amsterdam, Beirut, Cairo, Cape Town, Lagos, Moscow Domodedovo, Muscat, and Nairobi.
Emirates currently serves all these cities twice daily. Between May 1 and July 20, they will become daily routes as during this 80-day period Dubai airport will be undergoing runway maintenance (see news, May 17).
Other routes due a reduced service include Bahrain, from 21 to 13 weekly; Bangkok, from six to four daily; Colombo, from 17 to seven weekly; Delhi, from four to three daily; Doha from 42 to 20 weekly; Karachi, from five to four daily; Kuala Lumpur, from four to three daily; Kuwait City, from 35 to 27 weekly; Mumbai, from five to four daily; Riyadh, from four to two daily; Seychelles, from 12 to seven weekly; Tehran from three to two daily; and Vienna, from 13 to six weekly.
Frankfurt, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, Milan Malpensa and Tehran will all have their current three daily services cut to two daily.
As previously reported, Emirates will also halve the number of flights it operates between Glasgow and Dubai from twice daily to daily (see news, July 30).
Graham Smith
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