Emirates to launch second daily flights to Houston and L.A. in major boost to U.S. services

The award-winning airline, which recorded a significant increase in revenue for the Americas in 2009-10, will soon offer over 15,000 seats on 98 return flights per week to the United States.
As from the 31st October, Emirates will start flying twice a day to both cities on Boeing 777 aircraft. The flights will provide the highest standards of passenger comfort.

Tim Clark, President of Emirates Airline said that: “Emirates has experienced very strong demand across all of its U.S. gateways this year, including very healthy premium and business traffic.”

These flights are set to provide further impetus to the U.A.E.'s strengthening trade relationship with the States, which saw US exports reach US$11.4billion this year. Since the airline launched its first flight to New York in 2004, the value of trade between the two nations has almost tripled, reaching US$12.7 billion in the 12 months to June 2010.

In fact, over 750 US firms have set up offices in Dubai and 400,000 American business and leisure travellers visited the Emirate last year, a 23 per cent increase from 2007-08.

Emirates currently flies nonstop to four U.S. cities: New York, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Emirates Airline flies daily between Dubai and Malta. Flight EK 108 leaves Malta at 15:40 and arrives in Dubai at 00:40 a.m. the following day, after a short stopover in Larnaca, Cyprus.