Emirates adds capacity on Bangkok route

BANGKOK  Emirates will upgrade its fourth daily from a Boeing 777 to A380 aircraft on its Dubai-Bangkok route, effective 1 December.
The new two-class A380 service will operate daily as flight EK376 from Dubai to Bangkok and EK377 from Bangkok to Dubai. It was the last of the airline’s Bangkok services to still use a Boeing 777.
The up-gauge to Airbus 380 will increase seat capacity by 255 seats per flight and 3,570 seats per week to and from the Thai capital city.
The move will add more pressure on competitors on the route.
inside no 3Emirates divisional senior vice president, commercial operations East, Barry Brown, said Thailand was an important market for Emirates, and the A380 was extremely popular with travellers since the airline started the double-decker aircraft service to Thailand in 2009.
“The addition of this two-class A380 passenger service will give even more travellers the chance to experience this revolutionary aircraft first hand.”
Emirates’ two-class A380 has a capacity for 615 passengers across its business and economy cabins – accommodating 58 lie-flat seats in business class and 557 seats in economy class.

EK376 departs Dubai at 0330 and arrives in Suvarnabhumi International Airport at 1235 on the same day. This flight connects with services to European and African destinations, and is especially popular with northern European travellers from the UK and Scandinavia heading to Thailand’s capital city.
The return flight, EK377, a popular flight for residents of countries in the Gulf, departs Bangkok at 1600, offering a convenient departure time that suits hotel check-out times and arrives in Dubai the same day at 1955, a flying time of 6 hours and 55 minutes.
Emirates and other Gulf airlines are making massive inroads impacting on airlines that offer nonstop services to Europe. Despite the drawback of a stop and an change of plane, competitive fares and reductions in transfer times at Middle East hubs are attracting travellers who once opted for nonstop flights.
They also offer a wider selection of flights to secondary cities in Europe allowing passengers to avoid crowded gateway airports such as London Heathrow.
Emirates’ A380s serve 34 global destinations of which 11 are in the Far East: Auckland, Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Hong Kong, Melbourne, Perth, Seoul, Singapore, Shanghai and Sydney.

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