Emirates is expanding its services to London Heathrow with the addition of six weekly flights starting October 26.
Emirates is expanding its services to London Heathrow with the addition of six weekly flights starting October 26.
According Emirates the additional flights to Heathrow will operate as EK41 from Dubai, which will depart every Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday at 1340H. It will arrive at Heathrow at 1740H. Every Thursday, the same flight will depart Dubai at 1255H and arrive at Heathrow at 1655H.
Every Sunday, Monday, and Wednesday, the return flight will depart Heathrow at 2235H and arrive back in Dubay at 0935H the following day. The same flight will depart at 2120H every Tuesday, Thusrday, and Saturday and arrive at 0820H the next day.
Emirates currently operates six daily flights to Heathrow using Airbus A380 aircraft. The airline will use Boeing 777-300ER aircraft with 350 seats including First, Business, and Economy on the extra flights.
Emirates states that the evening departures from Heathrow will provide convenient onward connections via Dubai to cities such as Durban, Phuket, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Beijing, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and Jakarta. The outbound flights from Dubai are timed for connections such as Ahmedabad, Lahore, Maldives, Hyderabad and Chennai, Beijing and Shanghai in the Chinese mainland as well as several points within the Middle East including Bahrain, Dammam and Riyadh.
Combined, Emirates will operate a total of 90 weekly flights to London (Heathrow and Gatwick) by early next year. A fourth daily flight to London Gatwick using Airbus A350 aircraft will start on February 8, 2026.
By February 2026, Emirates will operate a total of 146 weekly flights the UK. The airline operates flights to three London-area hubs – Heathrow, Gatwick, and Stansted, in addition to Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.
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