Emirates on Sunday March 12 2017 started daily passenger service between Newark Liberty International Airport and Dubai International Airport, via Athens International Airport.
Newark becomes Emirates’ 12th U.S. gateway, and is the second serving the greater Tri-State Area, complementing Emirates’ existing four daily flights from Dubai and John F. Kennedy International Airport. Passengers embarking from Newark and Dubai will have the option to disembark in Athens or continue to their final destinations.
"Emirates' direct, year-round operations on the Athens-New York route is a spectacular development for the Athens’ market, enhancing its connectivity and presenting the traveling public with new travel options on Emirates' excellent product. At the same time, Athens’ strong traffic volumes to/from the US, underpinned by the vibrant Greek-American community, signify the potential and the success of the route. We wish to our airline-partner all the best to this ground-breaking endeavor", said Dr. Yiannis Paraschis, CEO, Athens International Airport.
Emirates will serve the route with a wide-body Boeing 777-300ER powered by General Electric GE90 engines, offering eight seats in First class, 42 seats in Business class and 304 seats in Economy class, as well as 19 tons of belly-hold cargo capacity.
Emirates daily flight EK209 will depart Dubai at 10:50 a.m. local time, arriving in Athens at 2:25 p.m. before departing again at 4:40 p.m. and arriving into Newark at 10:00 p.m. on the same day. Emirates daily flight EK210 will depart Newark at 11:45 p.m., arriving in Athens the next day at 3:05 p.m. EK210 will depart from Athens at 5:10 p.m. and continue onward to Dubai, arriving at 11:50 p.m., facilitating convenient connections to more than 50 Emirates destinations in India, the Far East and Australia.
Last week Delta issued a press release about a letter that sent to US President Donald Trump from 25 members of Congress from the New York/New Jersey area. The letter asked Trump to take action to enforce America’s Open Skies agreement with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Qatar. The press release says, “The Partnership for Open and Fair Skies has documented over $50 billion in subsidies that the UAE and Qatar have funneled to their state-owned airlines – Emirates, Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways – as part of a scheme to dominate global aviation, to the detriment of fair-playing U.S. carriers and hundreds of thousands of American workers and in clear violation of their Open Skies agreements with the United States.”
Delta states that this is cheating and it makes impossible for fair-playing American businesses to compete. And every time a route is cancelled due to unfair Gulf carrier expansion, 1,500 hard-working American jobs are lost.
