Emirates boost capacity to St Petersburg
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In a bid to increase its presence across Russia, Emirates announced its intent to upgrade the aircraft servicing St Petersburg route.
The route will now be served with a Boeing 777-300ER, thereby increasing capacity. Six weekly EK175/176 flights, from Dubai to St Petersburg, will be operated with an Emirates Boeing 777-300ER from 25 October 2015, instead of an Airbus 330-200. The up-gauge will be applied to a seventh flight per week on the 1 December 2015.
The addition of a new aircraft will witness a 50% increase in capacity. The new aircraft will also introduce the Emirates first class suite, 42 business class seats and 310 economy class seats.
“Since 2011, when Emirates launched flights to and from St Petersburg, we have carried over 500,000 passengers on the route. Counting these figures alongside our double-daily flights to Moscow, takes the total to over 3.6million passengers,” said Thierry Aucoc, Emirates’ senior vice president, commercial operations – Europe and Russian Federation.
Emirates’ flight EK175 departs Dubai International Airport at 09:20 and arrives in St Petersburg at 14:35. The outbound flight EK176 departs from St Petersburg at 16:35 and arrives in Dubai at 23:45.
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