News: Dubai flights will be Newcastle's first ever scheduled long-haul route
Flights > News > # 1154 (18/01/2007)
Emirates is launching daily flights between Newcastle and Dubai later this year.
The Dubai-based airline’s new service, which takes off on September 1, will be the first ever scheduled long-haul flights to operate from Newcastle.
Emirates flight EK036 will leave Newcastle each day at 1.40pm, arriving into Dubai International Airport just after midnight (local time) the following day. The return flight, EK035, is scheduled to leave Dubai at 7.20am (local time) every day, arriving in Newcastle at just after midday.
The service will be operated by an Airbus A330-200 aircraft, with 27 business class and 251 Economy Class seats. Emirates already operates 91 non-stop flights each week from the UK to Dubai – five services daily from London Heathrow, three services per day from London Gatwick, double-daily flights from Birmingham and Manchester, and a daily connection from Glasgow.
Newcastle International airport’s chief executive, John Parkin, said: “We are delighted that Emirates has shown such a huge vote of confidence in the region and Newcastle International airport by introducing daily services to Dubai. Newcastle can now offer its customers direct services to one of the most important destinations in the world and an enormous choice of destinations beyond, on one of the world’s leading airlines.”
Emirates offer an onward route network from Dubai that includes destinations in Australia and New Zealand, South-East Asia, the Far East, Africa and the Indian subcontinent.
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