Emirates will restart service to Newcastle in the UK with four weekly flights from October 15, 2021. The route will be operated with a Boeing 777-300ER configured in two classes. By the end of October, the carrier will offer 77 weekly flights to the UK.
On Tuesday (August 24, 2021), Emirates announced that they will resume service to Newcastle from October 15, 2021 and boost service across Europe. The carrier will offer four weekly flights to Newcastle and the route will be serviced with a Boeing 777-300ER configured in two classes. By the end of October, Emirates will offer 77 weekly flights to the UK, including six daily flights to London Heathrow (with five A380 services), double-daily A380 flights to Manchester, 10 weekly flights to Birmingham, daily service to Glasgow and four weekly flights to Newcastle.
Emirates will also introduce extra flights and more capacity to over 10 European cities, including Birmingham, Barcelona, Brussels, Dublin, Hamburg, London, Lisbon, Madrid, Munich, Rome and Zurich. Many European gateways will be served with daily flights or more. The carrier is expanding frequencies to daily service to several German gateways such as Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Munich, offering over 50 weekly flights by October 31, 2021. Flights between Dubai and both Dusseldorf and Hamburg will also be upgraded to Emirates flagship A380 service.
Beyond Europe, Emirates will also restart flights to other destinations including Male and Colombo from September 1st, with Dubai-Male service increasing to four daily flights by mid-October. Additionally, flights to Muscat will increase to four weekly services from August 28th, and the Dubai-Sao Paulo route will increase to daily service starting October 5, 2021. Emirates has resumed 90 percent of their pre-pandemic network with service to over 120 destinations, offering seamless connections via Dubai to the Americas, Europe, Africa, the Middle East and the Asia Pacific.
Source: Emirates