Emirates airline steps up flights to the US

Emirates’ announced their 9th destination to their network in the United States.

Emirates’ announced their 9th destination to their network in the United States. The airline already flies to 7 US destinations, namely New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Houston, and Dallas.

The date of August 5 has been set as the inaugural flight to Chicago, the airline’s 9th US destination. This follows in the footsteps of Boston as the airline’s 8th destination, which is being launched next month.

Emirates proposes to use a Boeing B777-200LR for the Chicago service, and when launched this will offer travelers from Eastern Africa, where Emirates serves Entebbe, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, one of the widest options when flying to the United States using one carrier and one stop only enroute.

Operating a fleet of now 212 aircraft, among them the largest number of Airbus A380 any airline operates around the world, Emirates now serves 140 destinations in 80 countries and continues to roll out more destinations as more aircraft are being delivered, providing the capacity to do so.

Meanwhile it was also learned that Emirates has signed a wide reaching MOU with Ecuador’s TAME airline, which will begin to uplift passengers and cargo originating from Emirates’ nonstop flights from Dubai into both New York and Sao Paulo, Brazil, and then fly them to Quito, Ecuador’s capital city. Buenos Aires and Los Angeles, two cities where both TAME and Emirates are flying to, may be added at some time in the future to widen the range of connections from the UAE into South America, via Ecuador.

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