Emirates’ US Growth Continues — Second Daily Boston Flight Announced

I wished one of the two flights from Boston to Dubai was an Emirates A380 airbus. I used to take A380 from JFK before services started from Boston. Since there is a huge population in the Boston and surrounding areas who travel to asia via Dubai I would suggest Emirates start an Airbus A380 from Boston to Dubai as soon as possible.

British Airways has stopped flying from London to Uganda (Africa). There is a large Ugandan community in Boston and the flights from Boston to Uganda are always packed. KLM and Delta is popular but Emirates is going to give them a run for their money. We haven't flown yet because before we had to go to JFK to get on Emirates but with two daily routes that gives us more options. Also the European airlines are starting to do what the US carriers are doing and charging you for everything including seat selection. If Emirates stays true to their service those flights will fill up.

I fly to Dubai and Emirates Airlines should be ashamed of itself for how little they pay their the "imported help". In fact, Dubai should be ashamed of itself as well. They pay the "imported help" a pittance for the work that they do. It's nearly slave labor. They even go so far as to take the passports away from those that come to work there so they cannot leave before their contract is up, even if they wanted to go back home. ANYONE who flies on Emirates is a traitor to the United States and the U.S. carriers who are the backbone to our travel network. Fly Delta to Dubai from Atlanta....or United from Washington DC. See for yourself that the story that ABC News did on the "Dark Side of Dubai's Boomtown" is true. Don't be an idiot. Wake up an smell the same raping of the the American's as the Middle East enacted with pushing the oil prices to the price of $147 per barrel, helping push the Western World into recession. Finally when our economy started to recover (partly by an oil boom here in the U.S.), OPEC stated they would keep production high even as the price fell to the point that half of the rigs in the U.S. had to be shut down. OPEC tried to crack our domestic oil industry and half way succeeded. Now the raping of the U.S. airlines....stealing U.S. passenger traffic and routing it through Dubai to Europe and beyond. If you support it, Lucky Ben, you will be a traitor to your own country. Please speak out and protect your homeland from another rape.

At Logan Airport Emirates is using jetBlue's codesharing to create a de facto hub for itself, and the Massachusetts Port Authority is upgrading Logan Airport's infrastructure to make this arrangement work more smoothly. Not only is the airport beginning the process of rebuilding the jetways of its international terminal to accomodate the A380, it's also going to build a direct, completely enclosed walkway between that terminal and the neighboring Terminal C, where jetBlue's gates are. When this is completed it will be possible for Emirates passengers to deplane and clear Customs in Terminal E and then walk to Terminal C to catch connecting flights without ever going outside of the secured portion of the airport (& thus not having to be rescreened by TSA before catching connecting flights in Terminal C). When Emirates began arriving at Logan Airport jetBlue responded by increasing its number of flights between Boston and Detroit in anticipation of increased passenger load.

Lesson in geography for all: South East Asia = Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Myanmar (Burma), Philippines South Asia = India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives I believe the words South East Asia and South Asia has been used interchangeably in an inaccurate manner.