Emirates to scale up London Heathrow flights

Image credit: Dubai Media Office

Emirates Airline has announced it will operate an additional five-a-week service to London Heathrow starting October 31 until March 2024. This scale-up in service is scheduled to meet seasonal demand during the busy winter holidays, reported Dubai Media Office.

Emirates currently serves London Heathrow with six daily A380 flights.

Winter holidays service to London Heathrow

The additional flight will operate on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays and will be served by Emirates’ wide-body Boeing 777-300ER aircraft, fitted in a three-class configuration split between first, business, and economy classes.

Get ready. We’re ‘Boeing’ on an adventure! ✈️?️ pic.twitter.com/KLU5l91bJA

— Emirates (@emirates) June 22, 2023

Emirates flight EK41 will depart Dubai at 13:20hrs (local time) and arrive at London Heathrow at 17:20hrs (local time). The return flight, EK42, will depart London Heathrow at 20:15hrs (BST) and arrive in Dubai at 07:15hrs GST, the following day.

Emirates Airline service to the UK

Emirates continues to ramp up its UK services with the recent resumption of its iconic A380 service to Birmingham and Glasgow, double daily services to Stansted, and enhanced services to Newcastle and London Gatwick.

The airline currently serves the UK with 126 weekly flights – six times daily A380 service to London Heathrow; three times daily A380 service to Gatwick; twice daily service to Stansted; three times daily A380 service to Manchester; double daily service to Birmingham (including a daily A380 service); daily service to Newcastle; and a daily A380 service to Glasgow.

The UAE’s national carrier had recently introduced additional features on its London flights for business class passengers such as allowing them to preselect hot meals for the flight journey.

Flying to London on Business Class soon? You’ll have the option to preselect your hot meals from 25 July onwards. Get your preferred meal and help reduce food wastage! https://t.co/8Esqye18ho pic.twitter.com/U4zvzKjx0b

— Emirates (@emirates) July 18, 2023