Emirates adds fourth daily Sydney-Dubai Airbus A380 flight
By David Flynn, September 12 2017
Emirates will fly a fourth daily service between Sydney and Dubai from 25 March 2018 – and like its three siblings, the service will run on the Qantas partner's flagship Airbus A380.
The new addition to the schedule is EK416/417, and here's where the timings stand.
From 25 March to 30 March 2018, the inbound service EK416 will depart Dubai at 8.40pm and arrive into Sydney at 5.20pm the following day. Once daylight savings kicks out from 31 March 2018, the Sydney arrival time slides back to 4.30pm.
From 26 March to 31 March 2018, the outbound service EK417 will depart Sydney at 5.05pm and reach Dubai at 12.25am the following day. Again, the demise of daylight savings will see EK417 departing Sydney at 4.15pm starting 1 April.
Emirates says the new flight will provide passengers travelling from Europe and North Africa greater connectivity to Australia, as well as complementing Qantas’ rerouting of Sydney-London flights via Singapore instead of Dubai.
Those times roughly approximate the Sydney-Dubai roster for QF1, which is currently wheels-up from Sydney at 3.50pm to arrive into Dubai at 12.25am.
"Emirates’ new service will offer passengers an afternoon departure from Sydney and a convenient arrival in main European cities the following morning," the airline said in a statement.
"It also introduces a new option for passengers to depart London and main European cities in the morning with an afternoon arrival in Sydney the next day with a short connection in Dubai."
David Flynn is the Editor-in-Chief of Executive Traveller and a bit of a travel tragic with a weakness for good coffee, shopping and lychee martinis.
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As per henrus' comment upstream, the arrangement is almost certain to be that the new SYD-DXB (EK417) departing at 1705 will be flown by the aircraft on the DXB-BKK-SYD (EK418) arriving at 0900, and that the new DXB-SYD (EK416) arriving at 1720 will turn to form the SYD-BKK-DXB (EK419) departing at 1930.
It definitely helps that all four of their SYD flights will be on A380s; it also helps that the SYD-AKL-SYD sector is being taken off EK418/419 in favour of near-double-daily QF A330 metal.
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Absolutely, Watson.. This was exactly what I predicted when EK removed SYD-AKL-SYD in my previous posting. When QF1 is rerouted via SIN and will be pulled out completely from DXB, it made even more sense to introduce this 4th daily flight to grab QF's slot. For the flight DXB-SYD then changed to SYD-BKK-DXB means less time for EK being parked in the airport (1.5 hours). Same goes for DXB-BKK-SYD then becomes SYD-DXB (8 hours vs 10 hours previously). For the new DXB-SYD departing 20:40 hours will certainly cater for early European departures particularly for the major cities like London, Paris, Frankfurt. EK might adopt the same for DXB-MEL eventually. Having said that there may be a wait before EK introduces MEL 4th daily because QF9 although will be rerouted via Perth, the slot has been used by EK for BNE 3rd daily flight.
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Other cities you mention have more to offer than ADL.
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The Qantas offering is a sad and dim reflection of what it used to be, the wine list on QF is what you would be embarrassed to serve at a BBQ last nights flight was Juniper estate cab sav ($63 at cellar door and cheaper elsewhere) and certainly not a match for most airlines business class wines. Emirates had 2004 Cos D Estournel $400+?. Now that Neil Perry has ruined the food his team are destroying the wine list, cant help but wondering at times if he really works for star alliance.
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More choices for customers and a smart use of the JV I think!
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