If there may be an airport on the market that has close ties to the Airbus A380, it’s, after all, Dubai International (DXB). The UAE hub sees dozens of Emirates superjumbos coming and going day by day, however it is just not the one carrier to fly the quadjet there. Indeed, British Airways has now prolonged its Dubai A380 flights to next winter.
Adding to the schedule
Based on figures made available by Cirium, an aviation analytics company, data as of last week showed that British Airways was planning to stop using the Airbus A380 on its route from London Heathrow (LHR) to Dubai at the tip of March. This is able to have coincided, kind of, with the beginning of the brand new IATA summer season.
Nevertheless, the positioning now shows that the UK flag carrier and oneworld founding member has added the four-engine behemoth back to the London-Dubai schedule for among the winter season. Indeed, Cirium now lists a day by day rotation from Heathrow to Dubai and back from November 1st, 2024 through to January thirty first, 2025.
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With seven Heathrow – Dubai rotations every week scheduled with the A380 from November to January, BA will offer a weekly capability of three,283 seats with the jet during this era. Cirium shows that December 2023 and January 2024 also offered this frequency, although November 2023 was slightly higher (as much as nine every week).
Further details
By way of the timings of those recently added flights, the outbound service (numbered as flight BA107) will depart London Heathrow Airport at 12:45 local time. While this represents a comparatively leisurely departure without having to reach on the airport on the first light, it’s going to get into Dubai relatively late as compared.
Indeed, with a scheduled block time of seven hours, arrival into the UAE is planned (accounting for the time difference) for 23:45. Meanwhile, the return leg (numbered as flight BA106) has a for much longer block time, and is scheduled to cover the three,420 miles (5,504 km / 2,972 NM) between Dubai and West London in eight hours and five minutes. It’s going to depart at 02:10, and land at 06:15.
The World’s Busiest Airbus A380 Route: London Heathrow To Dubai International
Two carriers deploy the superjumbo on this busy corridor.
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Based on aeroLOPA, BA configures its A380s in a four-class configuration, with a capability of 469 passengers. This figure comprises 303 World Traveller (economy) seats, 55 in World Traveller Plus (premium economy), 97 Club World (business class) flatbeds, and just 14 of the UK flag carrier’s exclusive First Class suites.
Dwarfed by Emirates’ A380 operations
In fact, with only a handful of A380s in its fleet, British Airways operations with the sort will all the time be relatively limited on any route. In stark contrast, Cirium’s data shows that UAE flag carrier Emirates currently has a whopping six day by day rotations between Heathrow and Dubai scheduled with the superjumbo scheduled between November and January, offering around 90,000 seats a month each way.
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