World-recognised Emirates has today revised its cargo schedule to include Los Angeles and Tehran, meaning in total, it will offer 90% more cargo routes than passenger routes. This demonstrates the worldwide shift to cargo services as passenger demand plummets amid the coronavirus pandemic.
In mid-May, Emirates announced plans to resume regularly scheduled passenger flights to nine destinations, including London Heathrow, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney and Melbourne. This came following a temporary suspension of most passenger services in mid-March.
Emirates Boeing 777-300ER pictured on approach into Singapore. Photo by Benjamin Liew | AeroNewsX
Emirates has now further increased its cargo network with the launch of flights to Los Angeles and Tehran. Emirates now has 657 flights per week with passenger aircraft carrying freight and 69 weekly services with full freighter planes. In total, the airline now has 74 routes planned with passenger-freighter aircraft, 24 with full-freighter planes, and 17 served by both.
The carrier's revised cargo network is detailed below.
Cargo routes served by passenger aircraft
South America:
Sao Paulo
North America:
Los Angeles
Mexico City
New York
Toronto
Washington D.C.
Europe:
Barcelona
Brussels
Copenhagen
Dublin
Istanbul
Manchester
Paris
Vienna
Zurich
Middle East:
Amman
Bahrain
Dammam
Erbil
Jeddah
Muscat
Riyadh
Tehran
Africa:
Casablanca
Cairo
Conakry
Dakar
Eldoret
Entebbe
Johannesburg
Khartoum
Lagos
Lilongwe
Nairobi
Asia:
Bangkok
Bengaluru
Chennai
Delhi
Dhaka
Hanoi
Hyderabad
Jakarta
Karachi
Kochi
Kuala Lumpur
Lahore
Osaka
Saigon
Seoul
Taipei
Thiruvananthapuram
Tokyo
Oceania:
Auckland
Brisbane
Christchurch
Melbourne
Perth
Cargo routes served by full-freighter aircraft
North America:
Aguadilla
Colombus
Houston
South America: None
Europe:
Maastricht
Munich
Oslo
Middle East: None
Africa: None
Asia:
Guangzhou
Oceania: None
Cargo routes served by both full-freighter and passenger aircraft
North America:
Chicago
South America:
Quito
Europe:
Amsterdam
Frankfurt
London
Madrid
Moscow
Middle East:
Dubai
Africa: None
Asia:
Ahmedabad
Beijing
Colombo
Hong Kong
Mumbai
Shanghai
Singapore
Oceania:
Sydney
In other news, Emirates President, Tim Clark, has predicted it will take up to four years before Emirates' full network is back in service. The comments, which came in a webcast interview with aviation consultant John Strickland, come as the airline announces a number of redundancies as it struggles against the coronavirus pandemic.
“I think probably by the year 2022/23, 2023/24 we will see things coming back to some degree of normality and Emirates will be operating its network as it was and hopefully as successfully as it was,” explained Tim Clark.
Clark will be stepping down as Emirates President later this month and will instead act as an advisor to the airline.
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