Dubai
Emirates said on Monday it would be cutting down briefly its flights to New York next month, as part of its operational review.
As a part of the move, Emirates said one of its three daily non-stop flights (EK 207/208) serving the New York (JFK) — Dubai (DXB) route will be “cancelled” from June 4, 2017 to June 30, 2017, and that the flight will be reintroduced on July 1, 2017.
An Emirates spokesperson told Gulf News in an emailed statement that the airline will continue to serve its customers on this route with 14 non-stop weekly flights during this period to JFK and seven weekly flights to Newark.
“This decision was made as part of our routine operational review, to ensure that our capacity is deployed to best serve customer demand across our global network,” the spokesperson said.
The move comes shortly after Emirates took a commercial decision about reducing its flights to the US following the imposition of electronics ban coupled with visa restrictions resulting into weakened travel demand.
The airline said in April that starting this month it would be reducing flights to five of the 12 US cities it currently serves, including Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Seattle, Boston and Los Angeles.
