Emirates (airline)

**Emirates** is an airline based in the United Arab Emirates. They are a subsidiary of The Emirates Group. They are the seventh biggest airline in the world, by number of passengers. Emirates Airline is the largest major airline in the Middle East. It is an airline based in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. It runs more than 2400 passenger flights per week from its hub at Dubai International Airport Terminal 3, to 108 places in 60 countries. It goes to countries on six continents. Emirates is a part of The Emirates Group, which has more than 50,000 employees, and is owned fully by the Government of Dubai directly under the Investment Corporation of Dubai. Cargo activities are done by the Emirates Group's division.

Arsenal, The English Premier League (Barclay's Premier League) is sponsored by the Airline.

## Destinations

Emirates operate the following with cargo and passenger flights;
- **Africa**
Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Conakry, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Djibouti (cargo), Durban, Eldoret (cargo), Entebbe, Harare, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Lilongwe (cargo), Luanda, Lusaka, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tripoli, Tunis
- **Americas**
Boston, Buenos Aires, Campinas (cargo), Chicago (cargo), Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Newark, Orlando, Rio de Janeiro, San Francisco, São Paulo, Seattle, Toronto, Washington–Dulles.
- **Asia**

Ahmedabad, Almaty (cargo), Amman, Baghdad, Bahrain, Bangalore, Bangkok, Basra, Beijing, Beirut, Chennai, Chittagong (cargo), Clark, Cochin, Colombo, Dammam, Delhi, Dhahran, Dhaka, Dubai, Erbil, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jakarta, Jeddah, Kabul, Karachi, Kolkata, Kozhikode, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait City, Lahore, Maldives, Manila, Medina, Mumbai, Muscat, Osaka, Peshawar, Phuket, Riyadh, Sana'a, Seoul, Shanghai, Sialkot, Singapore, Taipei, Tehran, Tokyo, Thiruvanathapuram
- **Europe**
Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Gothenburg (cargo), Hamburg, Istanbul, Kyiv, Larnaca, Lisbon, London, Lyon, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Newcastle, Nice, Paris, Prague, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Stockholm, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zaragoza (cargo), Zurich
- **Oceania**
Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Christchurch, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney

## Current fleet

, the Emirates mainline fleet consists of the following widebody aircraft:

|rowspan="2"|Aircraft|rowspan="2"|In service|rowspan="2"|Orders|colspan="4"|Passengers|rowspan="2"|Notes|||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Airbus A350-900|—|50|colspan="4"|<abbr title="To be announced">TBA</abbr>|Deliveries planned to start from 2023.|||||||
|rowspan="6"|Airbus A380-800|rowspan="6"|117|rowspan="6"|5|14|76|399|489|rowspan="6"|Largest A380-800 operator|
|14|76|401|491|||||||||
|14|76|426|516|||||||||
|14|76|427|517|||||||||
|14|76|429|519|||||||||
|—|58|557|615|||||||||
|Boeing 777-200LR|10|—|—|38|264|302||||||
|rowspan="5"|Boeing 777-300ER|rowspan="5"|127|rowspan="5"|—|8|42|304|354|rowspan="5"|Largest B777-300ER operator|
|8|42|306|356|||||||||
|8|42|310|360|||||||||
|6|42|306|354|||||||||
|—|42|386|428|||||||||
|Boeing 777X|—|115|colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|<abbr title="To be announced">TBA</abbr>|Deliveries planned to start from 2021.|||||||
|Boeing 787-9|—|30|colspan="4" style="text-align:center;"|<abbr title="To be announced">TBA</abbr>|Deliveries planned to start from 2023.|||||||

### Executive aircraft

As of January 2020, the Emirates Executive fleet consists of the following aircraft:

|Aircraft|Fleet|Orders|Passengers|
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Airbus ACJ319|1|—|10 (suites) 5 (beds)|

## Infobox (airline)

- **airline**: Emirates
- **image**: Emirates logo.svg
- **image size**: 150
- **iata**: EK
- **icao**: UAE
- **callsign**: EMIRATES
- **founded**: 25 March 1985
- **commenced**: 25 October 1985
- **hubs**: Dubai International Airport
- **frequent flyer**: Emirates Skywards
- **fleet size**: 262
- **destinations**: 152
- **parent**: The Emirates Group
- **num employees**: 45,843 (31 March 2022)