Emirates, the world?s largest international airline, has scaled up its operations to Newcastle with the introduction of a 5th weekly flight.
The additional service has been introduced to meet sustained demand for international travel with Emirates seeing a steady uptick in bookings over recent weeks. The most popular destinations from Newcastle following the easing of travel restrictions include Dubai, Bangkok, Phuket, The Maldives and Sydney.
Flight EK034 departs Newcastle at 21:10 arriving in Dubai at 07:25 the following day with flights leaving Newcastle on Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Newcastle continues to be served by Emirates? wide-body Boeing 777 aircraft, fitted in a two-class configuration split between Business and Economy.
By October, Emirates will serve the UK with 110 weekly flights across seven UK hubs including Heathrow, Gatwick, Stansted, Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle and Glasgow.
Richard Jewsbury, divisional vice-president, Emirates in the UK, commented: ?Scaling up operations to Newcastle will provide even better connectivity to the North East and we?re thrilled to be adding more capacity. Bookings to Dubai and beyond have been steadily growing and our forecasts expect this trend to continue over the peak summer period and beyond.?
