Emirates adds to Cairo services

Four new flights will increase the number of frequencies to three each day

Emirates have confirmed a passenger died on board a Munich-bound flight on Tuesday. Marwan Naamani / AFP

Emirates will increase capacity on its services to Egypt from October 29 with the launch of four additional scheduled flights every week to Cairo.

The four new flights will increase the number of frequencies between the two cities to three each day, and take the total number of weekly Emirates flights serving Cairo to 21.

“Emirates is committed to offering customers more flights choices, which will enable them to seamlessly connect to points across the Middle East, Asia, Americas, Africa and Australia ... while experiencing the most comfortable and entertaining experience in the sky,” said Orhan Abbas, Emirates’ senior vice president of commercial operations for Africa. “We will continue to invest in Egypt, empowering the local economy and helping it expand its business and tourism presence.”

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Similar to the current service between the two cities, the new flights will be operated by a 360-seat Boeing 777-300ER in a three-class configuration featuring eight private suites, 42 business class and 310 economy class seats; adding 1,440 seats each way per week on the route as well as 23 tonnes of additional capacity for cargo per flight.

The additional Dubai – Cairo flight EK 925 will leave Dubai at 2050hrs and will arrive in Cairo at 2305hrs. The return flight, EK926, will depart Cairo at 0045hrs and arrives in Dubai at 0615hrs.

Customers can take advantage of the extra Emirates baggage allowance of up to 30kg in economy, 40kg in business and 50kg in first class.

Emirates said on  Monday it had come out top in the YouGov BrandIndex 2017 UAE Brand Health Rankings, which is based on the daily consumer perception of more than 500 brands in the UAE.

Emirates started operations to Cairo in April 1986 with three flights a week. Operations have steadily grown with increases in both frequency and capacity between Cairo and Dubai to match customer demand. Today, Emirates operates 17 weekly flights between Cairo and Dubai. Globally, the airline employs more than 2,000 Egyptian nationals in a variety of roles across the Emirates Group, including over 800 cabin crew.