Emirates Airline is to increase its Dubai – Tokyo Narita link from a five times weekly to a daily schedule from November 1. The airline launched flights on the route on March 28, 2010 and currently uses a Boeing 777-300ER configured with eight private suites in First Class, 42 seats in Business Class and 304 Economy Class seats, as well as also 23-tonnes of belly-hold cargo space.
The flights are timed to meet with the airline’s expanding wave system at Dubai International Airport and will enable fast transfers to flights across its wider network. An estimated 28,000 O&D passengers travelled with Emirates on the route in the past year but around 91,000 flew in and out of Tokyo Narita from its wider global network.
The largest traffic flow is from Casablanca, Morocco, followed by Istanbul, Turkey; Nairobi, Kenya; Amman, Jordan and Tunis, Tunisia. There are also notable traffic flows from Italy and the United Kingdom with Emirates flights from each country proving popular with travellers.
“Japan is a vital market for Emirates and being able to increase the flights to a daily operation is a great testament to the partnership which has existed since we began operations to Japan, through Osaka, nine years ago,” said Richard Jewsbury, Senior Vice President, Commercial Operations, Far East & Australasia, Emirates Airline. “Demand on the route continues to remain strong since we launched last year.”
Since 2002, Emirates said it had carried over 1.3 million people and 60,000 tonnes of cargo on its flights to Japan. Dubai is an important hub for the re-export of Japanese manufactured products to the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia and the belly-hold cargo capacity will support Japanese exports of mechanical components, electronic goods and automobile parts to the UAE, and its import of gas and oil products.
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