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Emirates SkyCargo has taken delivery of a tenth Boeing 777 Freighter aircraft, ahead of the move of its freighter operations to Dubai World Central’s Al Maktoum International Airport in May 2014. The aircraft is capable of carrying 103 tonnes of cargo and its main cargo deck is the widest of any freighter aircraft at 3.7 metres.
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Emirates will launch its first flight to Afghanistan, between Dubai and Kabul's Khwaja Rawash Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan from 4 December. The route will be operated by an Airbus A340-500 departing Dubai daily at 09.55 and returning from Kabul at 15.30.
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Emirates is to launch services to Sialkot, its fifth destination in Pakistan, on 5 November. Flights will operate four times a week with an Airbus A330-200, offering up to 17 tonnes of cargo capacity. Sialkot is the capital of Sialkot District located in the north-east of the Punjab province in ...
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Emirates has found a successor to its long-serving cargo supremeo, Ram Menen, who retired from the Middle East carrier earlier this month. Nabil Sultan, whose career spans more than 20 years in commercial roles within Emirates, has been appointed the new divisional senior vice president, cargo. He was previously divisional ...
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Emirates is to replace the Airbus A340-300 on its second Dubai-Glasgow service with a larger-capacity Boeing-777-300ER aircraft from 1 January. The new aircraft boosts weekly cargo capacity by 70 tonnes
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An Australian court has fined Emirates $10 million for alleged price fixing of fuel and other surcharges. The Middle East carrier reached a settlement with the Federal Court in Sydney, becoming the tenth airline to do so. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is also due to start proceedings against Air ...
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Emirates is to resume passenger flights between Dubai and Tripoli on 29 October, for the first since the Libyan revolution 18 months ago. They will be operated by an Airbus A330-200 four days a week, offering 15 tonnes of cargo capacity per flight.
The carrier also reinstated passenger flights to Erbil ...
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Emirates will launch four weekly flights between its Dubai hub and Adelaide from 1 November, rising to a daily service from 1 February 2013. The current double-daily service to Perth will also increase to 19 weekly flights from 1 December, becoming a triple daily operation from 1 March next year.
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Emirates will operate a daily passenger service from its Dubai hub to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 4 June. Emirates SkyCargo will offer 240 tonnes of belly-hold capacity a when the 17-tonne capacity Airbus 330-200 starts operating on the route but, from 28 October, a Boeing 777-300ER takes over, ...
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