Emirates ups service to Los Angeles

Dubai - The new service, flight EK217, will depart Dubai at 3:00pm and arrive in Los Angeles at 8:00pm.

Emirates on Wednesday said that it plans to launch a second daily service from Dubai International Airport (DXB) to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 1, 2016.
The second Los Angeles flight will be operated with an Emirates' Airbus A380-800ULR aircraft in a 3-class configuration with 14 private suites in First class, 76 seats in Business class and 401 seats in Economy class.
The new service, flight EK217, will depart Dubai at 3:00pm and arrive in Los Angeles at 8:00pm. The return flight, EK218, will depart Los Angeles at 10:30pm and arrive in Dubai approximately 16 hours later at 1:30am. The new service will supplement the current EK215 Airbus A380-800 flight departing Dubai at 8:55am and landing in Los Angeles at 1:55pm.
The existing return flight, EK216, departs LAX 4:45pm and arrives in Dubai 7:35pm the following day. The complementary flight times of Emirates' new second daily service will serve the growing customer demand for travel between Dubai and the western United States, as well as for those passengers connecting to Emirates' vast global network of onwards destinations.
"Our existing service provides $677 million in annual economic benefit to L.A. and the surrounding area, contributes over $270 million in annual spending by visitors, and helps to support nearly 6,000 US jobs," said Hubert Frach, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, West.
"So our additional service to LAX not only doubles our capacity to meet demand for our award winning service, but also increases our positive economic impact to the Los Angeles area."
- business@khaleejtimes.com
 
 

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