Emirates To Offer Extra Flights To Paris

Emirates, the award-winning Dubai-based international airline, is introducing more services on the Paris/Dubai route. From 28th October, non-stop services from Paris go up from three to five each week. This means passengers from Singapore can now fly to Paris on Emirates five days a week, with only a short transit time in Dubai.

From Dubai, Emirates Airbus aircraft will leave on Sundays, Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 0800 to reach Paris at 1245. Southbound flights will leave Paris on the same days at 1430 to reach Dubai at 0015 local time.

As well as providing a better service for business travellers, the new flights will offer French holidaymakers more opportunities to take a break in the Gulf's premier vacation destination.

Airbus A330 aircraft with a choice of First, Business and Economy cabin service will fly the route, giving customers throughout the aircraft the chance to enjoy Emirates' highly popular cabin service and in-flight catering and entertainment.

The airline will continue its three-a-week services between Nice and Dubai, and the extra Paris/Dubai flights will also offer extra freight space for cargo shippers and forwarders.

Ghaith Al Ghaith, Emirates' Commercial Operations Director, said today: "Demand for our award-winning service means we need to offer more seats on our French flights.

"Our new frequencies will help meet the needs of business travellers, holidaymakers and firms sending goods by air, and mark a milestone in our progress towards daily departures to Dubai from Paris Charles de Gaulle."

Emirates, one of the world's fastest-growing airlines, serves an extensive network of cities in the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Far East and Australia via Dubai. Its fleet is the youngest of any major airline, with an average age just 32 months against an industry average of 168 months.

It plans to increase its fleet from 36 aircraft, including one freighter, to more than 100 by the end of the decade, and placed the launch order for seven 'state of the art' double-decker Airbus A380s as well as a fleet of six long-range Airbus A340-500s.