Emirates will introduce a new service between Dubai and New York via Hamburg on 29 October this year. This service increases Emirates’ flights to New York to three times a day, and increases capacity on its recently-launched Dubai to Hamburg service.

Emirates launched services to John F. Kennedy airport in New York in June 2004 and boosted its services to twice daily in November last year. The airline also launched a daily service to Hamburg in March of this year. Both routes have proved extremely popular and there is such a high demand for Emirates’ services to JFK that the airline is now able to offer increased flights to North America with this new service between Dubai and JFK via Hamburg.

Emirates will operate its Boeing 777-300ER aircraft in three-class configuration on the Dubai-Hamburg-New York route, with 12 seats in first, 42 in business and 310 in economy.

His Highness Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline and Group, said: “We already offer non-stop services to Hamburg and New York but demand has been so high that we are happy to be able to increase our services to JFK and offer greater capacity to Hamburg.”

The flight, EK205 will depart from Dubai International Airport at 8.55am, arriving in Hamburg at 12.55pm, before flying onward to New York at 2.40 pm, landing at 5pm at JFK local time.

The return flight, EK206, will depart New York at 11.15pm, arriving in Hamburg at 12.35pm the next day. The flight onward to Dubai will depart Hamburg at 2.15pm and arrive in Dubai at 11.25pm.

Emirates flies to Malta four times a week from Dubai via Larnaca, Cyprus, on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Sunday on A330-200.