Emirates Airline, the world's largest liner Airbus A380, made its first scheduled flight on the Dubai-Moscow route on December 1 (route code is EK 131) and landed at Domodedovo Airport.
Currently, Emirates Airline has the largest fleet of such aircraft, which has 27 aircraft, and 4 more will be added to the fleet by the end of this year. Thus, over the past 4 years since the start of operation, these airliners have already served 11.5 million passengers and covered 169 million km. “Moscow is a strategic area for our airline. The introduction of the A380 on this route will help meet the growing demand among passengers in this market,” said Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline. The double-decker Airbus A380 has 427 seats in the economy class and 76 seats in the business class. In the first class - 14 personal cabins. The upper deck is designed for leisure passengers of the first and business classes.
It is worth recalling that one of the two daily flights of Emirates Airline - EK 131 - leaves from Dubai at 17.50 and arrives in the Russian capital at 23.05. The return flight departs from Domodedovo Airport at 01.05 and lands in Dubai at 06.20. The second flight of the airline will be operated on Airbus A340 aircraft. He will fly from Dubai at 9:45, and from Moscow at 17:45. In the near future, this flight will be operated on Boeing 777 aircraft. Thus, the total number of seats in this direction will increase to 775 flights per day. The airline also updated the sides on daily flights to St. Petersburg, where more capacious Boeing 777-300s will now fly.
