Emirates Announces Second Athens-Dubai Daily Flight for Summer 2023 Season

Emirates aircraft taking off from Athens International Airport.

Emirates on Tuesday announced that it will add a daily seasonal service from Dubai to Athens International Airport (AIA) to serve summer demand between June 1 and September 30.

The announcement is part of the airline’s network expansion across continents. In the coming months, established routes to Europe, Australia and Africa will be served with more Emirates flights, while in East Asia, more cities are seeing route restarts.

With regard to Europe, upcoming route enhancements include the addition of a seasonal daily service to Athens, Greece, and more flights to Amsterdam (from 14 to 19 weekly flights starting 02 April), Bologna (from 5 flights a week to a daily service starting 01 May), Budapest (from 5 flights a week to a daily service by 01 June), London (start of 2nd daily service to London Stansted on 01 May, which will take Emirates’ London operations to 11 daily flights – including 6 times daily to London Heathrow and 3 times daily to Gatwick) and Venice (from 5 to 6 flights a week from 26 March, increasing to a daily service from 01 June).

“Emirates continues to expand its global network and deploy its capacity to meet travel demand across the world,” Adnan Kazim, Emirates’ Chief Commercial Officer said.

Emirates has boosted operations by 31 percent (total ASKMs) since the start of its financial year and has further plans to ramp up seat capacity in its latest published northern summer schedule starting March 26.

“Our financial year started relatively quietly as we held back our ramp up until the planned northern runway rehabilitation program at Dubai International airport was completed in June. From July 2022 onwards, it’s been non-stop expansion,” he said.

In the past months, the airline has planned and executed the rapid growth of its network operations – reintroducing services to five cities; launching flights to one new destination (Tel Aviv), adding 251 weekly flights onto existing routes; and continuing the roll-out of service enhancements in the air and on the ground.

“Customer demand has been very strong, and our forward bookings are also robust,” Kazim said, adding that Emirates is working hard on several fronts – to bring back operating capacity as quickly as the ecosystem can manage, while also upgrading its fleet and product to ensure customers always enjoy the best possible Emirates experience.

So far, four of Emirates’ A380 aircraft have been completely refurbished with new cabin interiors and Premium Economy seats, and more is planned to enter service as the company’s US$2 billion cabin and service enhancement program picks up pace.

Moreover, Emirates continues to scale up its A380 operations with the reintroduction of the iconic double-decker across its network: Glasgow (from 26 March), Casablanca from (15 April), Beijing (from 01 May), Shanghai (from 04 June), Nice (from 1 June), Birmingham (from 1 July), Kuala Lumpur (from 01 August), and Taipei (from 01 August).