Emirates to fly to Glasgow

Emirates has announced plans for a new daily service to Glasgow International Airport from Dubai, starting on April 10, 2004. 

The new service will open onward access to an Emirates’ global route network that stretches across 71 destinations in 50 countries worldwide.

Scotland’s Transport Minister, Nicol Stephen, said: "The new service to Dubai is a major breakthrough for Scotland. It opens up access through Dubai to Australasia, the Indian Sub-Continent and the Far East - all prime markets for Scottish business and tourism.”

The news is a further expansion of Emirates’ UK operations. It will take the total number of Emirates’ services between the UK and Dubai to 11 each day - a weekly choice of 77 flights. The carrier already operates three times daily from both Heathrow and Gatwick and twice daily from Manchester and Birmingham* (*the second daily Birmingham service starts on 10 March, 2004).

The flights to Glasgow will be operated with an Airbus A330-200 configured in two classes with 34 Business and 251 Economy Class seats.

Emirates flight EK026 will depart daily from Glasgow at 2pm, arriving in Dubai at 0.30am the following day. The return flight, flight code EK025, will depart Dubai at 7.30am and arrive in Glasgow at 12.25pm the same day. All times are local.