Emirates increasing direct services to Australia
Emirates is increasing the number of direct flights to Australia with a second daily service to Melbourne starting Oct 30 this year. The airline said Thursday it is dropping the Kuala Lumpur leg on its daily Dubai-Kuala Lumpur-Melbourne service to launch the direct flight. It is not replacing the Kuala Lumpur flight, an Emirates spokesperson said, but will use an Airbus A380 on one of its 3 daily direct services to the Malaysian capital from October 30. The announcement comes 3 years into Emirates’ revenue sharing partnership with Qantas and 7 months after Emirates entered into a similar arrangement with Malaysian Airlines, which flies twice daily to Melbourne from Kuala Lumpur. Emirates president Tim Clark said June 2 that Australia was a “growth market” with opportunity to “load capacity” on the existing points. <br/>
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Emirates increasing direct services to Australia
Emirates is increasing the number of direct flights to Australia with a second daily service to Melbourne starting Oct 30 this year. The airline said Thursday it is dropping the Kuala Lumpur leg on its daily Dubai-Kuala Lumpur-Melbourne service to launch the direct flight. It is not replacing the Kuala Lumpur flight, an Emirates spokesperson said, but will use an Airbus A380 on one of its 3 daily direct services to the Malaysian capital from October 30. The announcement comes 3 years into Emirates’ revenue sharing partnership with Qantas and 7 months after Emirates entered into a similar arrangement with Malaysian Airlines, which flies twice daily to Melbourne from Kuala Lumpur. Emirates president Tim Clark said June 2 that Australia was a “growth market” with opportunity to “load capacity” on the existing points. <br/>
