Emirates destinations

Emirates Airline flies to 91 destinations in 55 countries on six continents from its primary hub in Dubai. [http://www.emirates.com/english/flash/route_map.aspx Emirates Route Map] ] It has a particularly strong presence in the Southeast Asian region, which together, connects Dubai with more international destinations in the region than any other Middle Eastern airline. The countries with the largest number of airports served by Emirates are India with 10 and the United Kingdom with 6.

Beyond the immediate region, the airline flies the Kangaroo Route. It flew 4.0% of all international traffic into and out of Australia in the year ended June 2006, fifth to Qantas, for a total of 2,324,530 passengers and accounting for 65% of the market on that segment.

While the airline does not maintain sizable hubs elsewhere, it has taken advantage of liberal bilateral aviation agreements between Dubai and Australia, and with Singapore, to offer more onward connections from Sydney and Dubai. On 1 September, 2005, for example, it launched six-times weekly flights between Bangkok and Dubai. China and India are major markets for the airline and has fuelled much of its growth in recent years, with flights to Beijing increased to twice daily beginning 1 June 2005, and flights to Bangalore increased to daily. Emirates is the leading carrier between India and the Middle East.It discontinued flying to Vietnam due to "security problems" in Ho Chi Minh City as of 10 May 1998.

The airline's strengths have also invited protectionist measures to keep it out of key foreign markets. In particular, it has been unsuccessful in gaining access on the transatlantic routes between London Heathrow Airport and the United States, and on the transpacific routes from Australia to the United States. The airline protested when Cathay Pacific was allowed on the transatlantic route in 2003. [cite web| publisher = Airline Industry Information | title=Singapore Airlines to protest decision to allow Cathay Pacific to fly transatlantic route| date = 3 December 2003 | url = http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0CWU/is_2003_Dec_8/ai_111028371 ] The Australian authorities deferred decisions to allow the airline on the route to the United States from Australia. [cite web| publisher = Channel NewsAsia | title=Australia rules out opening up Qantas' trans-Pacific route to rivals| date = 8 January 2007 | url = http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific_business/view/251240/1/.html ] Emirates has stated that it wants to dramatically expand service to Canada and establish a North American hub in New York City, but has complained about being shut out by Canada's protectionist policies. [ [http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/business/news/business/story.html?id=bc1c8cc1-6ba4-4a55-95a0-0eebe203ab92 Airlines’ The sky that is limited] , The Vancouver Sun, retrieved 7 April 2007] Emirates has been successful in obtaining unlimited German-U.S. rights, which it exercises with a daily Hamburg-New York Airbus A340-500 service. [ Airline Outlook, Aviation Week & Space Technology, August 20-27, 2007, p. 23 ] The German government denied Emirates' request for additional traffic rights to Germany in order to start services to Berlin and Stuttgart.

Due to high fuel prices, which as of July 2008 took up 41 percent of the airline's total costs, [Cite web |title=Emirates to boost cost saving targets as oil heats up |url=http://www.business24-7.ae/Articles/2008/7/Pages/07012008_b43d4848877d4adc89032a08a44537f5.aspx |publisher=Emirates Business 24/7 |last=Jain |first=Shweta |date=2008-07-01 |accessdate=2008-07-02] Emirates Airline cancelled plans to launch flights to Durban, South Africa in December 2008. [Cite web |title=Emirates axes Durban flights over fuel price |url=http://www.arabianbusiness.com/523110-ek-stops-flight-launch-to-durban-as-oil-shoots-up |work=Arabian Business|publisher=ITP Publishing Group|date=2008-06-26 |accessdate=2008-07-02] Shortly following this announcement, Emirates revealed that flights to Alexandria, Egypt would end on 10 September 2008, also due to high oil prices.Cite web |title=Emirates cuts Alexandria route |url=http://www.ameinfo.com/162104.html |publisher="AMEInfo" |date=2008-07-01 |accessdate=2008-07-02]

According to a report in "The Seattle Times", Emirates is planing to expand nonstop service globally from its hub in Dubai to Los Angeles International Airport, San Francisco International Airport, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, Miami International Airport, Logan International Airport, O'Hare International Airport, Philadelphia International Airport, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, and Washington Dulles International Airport. [ [http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003713409_emirates19.html Emirates airline CEO lets ambition fly free] ]

In September 2007, president, Tim Clark said that Emirates is planning on buying 10 more Boeing 747-8s to serve San Francisco, Los Angeles, and South American cities. He also said that Emirates is working on getting new flyover rights over Russia to minimise the length of the flights to North America's West Coast. [cite news| title = Emirates to take a big leap forward in fleet expansion | publisher = Gulf News| date = 7 September 2007| url = http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/09/08/10152179.html | accessdate = 2007-09-07]

Africa

East Africa

*Ethiopia
**Addis Ababa (Bole International Airport)
*Kenya
**Nairobi (Jomo Kenyatta International Airport)
*Mauritius
**Port Louis (Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam International Airport)
*Seychelles
**Mahé (Seychelles International Airport)
*Tanzania
**Dar es Salaam (Julius Nyerere International Airport)
*Uganda
**Entebbe (Entebbe International Airport)Reference:

North Africa

*Egypt
**Cairo (Cairo International Airport)
*Libya
**Tripoli (Tripoli International Airport)
*Morocco
**Casablanca (Mohammed V International Airport)
*Sudan
**Khartoum (Khartoum International Airport)
*Tunisia
**Tunis (Tunis-Carthage International Airport)Reference:

Southern Africa

*South Africa
**Cape Town (Cape Town International Airport)
**Johannesburg (OR Tambo International Airport) Reference:

West Africa

*Côte d'Ivoire
**Abidjan (Port Bouet Airport)
*Ghana
**Accra (Kotoka International Airport)
*Nigeria
**Lagos (Murtala Muhammed International Airport)Reference:

Asia

East Asia

*People's Republic of China
**Beijing (Beijing Capital International Airport)
**Guangzhou (Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport)
**Hong Kong (Hong Kong International Airport)
**Shanghai (Shanghai Pudong International Airport)
*Japan
**Nagoya (Chūbu Centrair International Airport)
**Osaka (Kansai International Airport)
*South Korea
**Seoul (Incheon International Airport)Reference:

Southeast Asia

*Indonesia
**Jakarta (Soekarno-Hatta International Airport)
*Malaysia
**Kuala Lumpur (Kuala Lumpur International Airport)
*Philippines
**Manila (Ninoy Aquino International Airport)
*Singapore
**Singapore (Singapore Changi Airport)
*Thailand
**Bangkok (Suvarnabhumi Airport)Reference:

South Asia

*Bangladesh
**Dhaka (Zia International Airport)
*India
**Ahmedabad (Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport)
**Bangalore (Bangalore International Airport)
**Chennai (Chennai International Airport)
**Delhi (Indira Gandhi International Airport)
**Hyderabad (Rajiv Gandhi International Airport)
**Kochi (Cochin International Airport)
**Kolkata (Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport)
**Kozhikode (Calicut International Airport)
**Mumbai (Chatrapati Shivaji International Airport)
**Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum International Airport)
*Pakistan
**Islamabad (Islamabad International Airport)
**Karachi (Jinnah International Airport)
**Lahore (Allama Iqbal International Airport)
**Peshawar (Peshawar International Airport)
*Maldives
**Malé (Malé International Airport)
*Sri Lanka
**Colombo (Bandaranaike International Airport)Reference:

Southwest Asia

*Bahrain
**Manama (Bahrain International Airport)
*Iran
**Tehran (Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport)
*Jordan
**Amman (Queen Alia International Airport)
*Kuwait
**Kuwait City (Kuwait International Airport)
*Lebanon
**Beirut (Beirut Rafic Hariri International Airport)
*Oman
**Muscat (Muscat International Airport)
*Qatar
**Doha (Doha International Airport)
*Saudi Arabia
**Dammam/Dhahran (King Fahd International Airport)
**Jeddah (King Abdulaziz International Airport)
**Riyadh (King Khalid International Airport)
*Syria
**Damascus (Damascus International Airport)
*United Arab Emirates
**Dubai (Dubai International Airport) Hub
*Yemen
**San‘a’ (Sana'a International Airport)Reference:

Europe

*Austria
**Vienna (Vienna International Airport)
*Cyprus
**Larnaca (Larnaca International Airport)
*France
**Nice (Côte d'Azur International Airport)
**Paris (Charles de Gaulle International Airport)
*Germany
**Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf International Airport)
**Frankfurt (Frankfurt Airport)
**Hamburg (Hamburg Airport)
**Munich (Munich Airport)
*Greece
**Athens (Athens International Airport)
*Italy
**Milan (Malpensa International Airport)
**Rome (Leonardo da Vinci Airport)
**Venice (Venice Marco Polo Airport)
*Malta
**Luqa (Malta International Airport)
*Russia
**Moscow (Domodedovo International Airport)
*Switzerland
**Zürich (Zürich Airport)
*Turkey
**Istanbul (Atatürk International Airport)
*United Kingdom
**Birmingham (Birmingham International Airport)
**Glasgow (Glasgow International Airport)
**London
***London Heathrow Airport
***London Gatwick Airport
**Manchester (Manchester Airport)
**Newcastle (Newcastle Airport)Reference:

North America

*Canada
**Toronto (Toronto Pearson International Airport)
*United States
**Houston (George Bush Intercontinental Airport)
**Los Angeles (Los Angeles International Airport) [begins October 26 2008] cite press release |url=http://www.emirates.com/us/english/destinations_offers/new_routes/los_angeles_and_san_francisco/los_angeles_and_san_francisco.aspx |publisher=Emirates |title=Emirates launches daily non-stop services from Los Angeles and San Francisco to Dubai |accessdate=2008-08-11]
**New York (John F. Kennedy International Airport)
**San Francisco (San Francisco International Airport) [begins December 15 2008] Reference:

Oceania

*Australia
**Brisbane (Brisbane Airport)
**Melbourne (Melbourne Airport)
**Perth (Perth Airport)
**Sydney (Sydney Airport)
*New Zealand
**Auckland (Auckland Airport)
**Christchurch (Christchurch International Airport)Reference:

South America

*Brazil
**São Paulo (São Paulo-Guarulhos International Airport)Reference:

Terminated destinations

Terminated destinations in Africa

*Comoros
**Moroni (Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport)Cite web |title=Image of old Emirates route map |url=http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q59/collection3/EmiratesRoutes.png|accessdate=2008-05-12]
*Egypt
**Alexandria (Borg El Arab Airport)

Terminated destinations in Asia

;Terminated destinations in East Asia
*China, People's Republic of
**Hong Kong (Kai Tak Airport) - Now closed, transferred operations to Hong Kong International Airport;Terminated destinations in South Asia
*India
**Bangalore (HAL Airport) - Now closed, transferred operations to Bengaluru International Airport;Terminated destinations in Southeast Asia
*Thailand
**Bangkok (Don Mueang International Airport) - Transferred operations to Suvarnabhumi Airport
*Vietnam
**Ho Chi Minh City (Tan Son Nhat International Airport);Terminated destinations in Southwest Asia
*Azerbaijan
**Baku (Heydar Aliyev International Airport)
*Iran
**Bandar Abbas (Bandar Abbas International Airport) [Cite web |title=Emirates Bandar Abbas Service From 1980s |url=http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/3976899/ |publisher=Airliners.net |date=2008-05-11 |accessdate=2008-05-12]
*United Arab Emirates
**Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi International Airport)

Terminated destinations in Europe

*Greece
**Athens (Ellinikon International Airport) - Now closed, transferred operations to Athens International Airport

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