Emirates Doubles A380 Flights Between Los Angeles And Dubai

Interesting! That's a lot more than the 7 departures and 450 seats out of my hometown airport...

Interesting! Looks like demand from LA is healthy.

I hear DFW is being replaced to a 777

@alexisonsmith - Say it isn't so! I was just on that flight and it was very full in biz and main cabin. F was light, but that was a plus.

I think this is over saturating the LA market to the Middle East despite the connections when considering that there is very little advantage for Angelenos to connect in Dubai or Doha. S.E. Asia and Australia are clearly well covered with much shorter segments on very good carriers. India is the one exception - but personally I would prefer to connect in Europe as a 16 hour flight into another connection is misery...even in Emirates First. The Big Three in the U.S. just need to work on their service, upgrade their fleets, and hunker down for a few years until the M.E. Big Three slowly bleed each other dry in saturating markets that are not going to sustain nearly 2,000 seats a day to the Middle East. Oh, wait, that's right...they are subsidized. 🙂 Never mind.

The thing about Emirates is that the 1am arrival likely isn't meant for those arriving in Dubai - you saw how many flights Depart at 2 and 3, and it's meant to connect to those flights. Emirates built its empire on connecting traffic, and I doubt it wants to change that strategy anytime soon.

@alexisonsmith it looks that way. http://www.star-telegram.com/news/business/aviation/sky-talk-blog/article53118525.html

Thanks for the heads up about DFW. My wife and I were scheduled for award travel in F in August on the a380, now I see it is the 777. Bummer, I wanted to try the shower/bar. I suppose there is nothing I can do.

Off topic about schedule:

Lucky, you said that Emirates has a "daily" flight between DXB and LAX as of now, but looking at the schedule, the A380 arrives in Dubai over 24 hours after it departs Dubai, and how I know it, that would make the flight 3x/4x weekly unless the schedule differed for every day. Correct me, if needed.

Anonymous- you realize they don't use the same aircraft for the route right?
So when the LAX-DXB is in the air bound for Dubai, another aircraft is already enroute to LAX for the next day.
EK has 72 A380s. aircrafts don't fly the same route. An A380 arriving from JFK for example, doesn't go back to JFK. It might go to SYD, etc.

@alexisonsmith @Dan Diversky : I have an EK flight out of DFW April 1st; booked it because it was on the A380..after reading your comment I double checked and now it's on the 777 🙁
Only took the flight because it was the A380...does anyone know when the A380 out of Houston stops?
I've checked on http://www.emirates.com/us/english/flying/our_fleet/emirates_a380/emirates_schedule/houston-dubai.aspx but the schedule isn't valid for my departure dates

@Jon According to airlineroute.net, the A380 at DFW is being replaced with the 777-300ER from Feb 1-Aug 31, 2016 and then returning to DFW. Bummer you will just miss it.

No surprise that Texas is losing the 380's with the price of oil right now...

Lucky, small correction: EK 215 currently departs DXB at 8:30 (not 8:55) and arrives LAX at 12:45 (not 1:55), which means getting up even earlier at the crack of dawn (which I hate). I'm on that flight in a couple of weeks and just checked my itinerary on EK's website.

I am flying out EK 218 from LAX to DXB on October 28th, 2016. My booking email states that the aircraft is the Airbus A380, however when I go to manage my booking on Emirates website it states that it is a Boeing 777.

Does anyone know which one is correct?

Thanks!

Looks like Emirates has "downgraded" flight 218 to the 777. Darn.

Hi Ben, any chance you can confirm with EK that they have in fact downgraded the second daily flight from DXB-LAX from the A380 to a 777-300ER beginning October 1st? I can't seem to get a straight answer out of them. Thanks!