Emirates connects Abuja
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Emirates has launched services to Abuja in Nigeria. This is Emirates’ 26th destination in Africa and its 144th worldwide.
The inaugural flight EK785 landed at Abuja’s Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport. Services to Lagos were launched just over 10 years ago.
“This new daily flight will meet and further stimulate a vibrant market demand between the two cities. Our leisure and business passengers from Nigeria can now better connect to the Middle East, Europe, the United States and Asia via Dubai,” said Adil Al Ghaith, Emirates vice president commercial operations, Northern and Western Africa.
“With a fast growing economy, Nigeria is a key market for Emirates. We started operations to Nigeria on 2 January 2004, with four flights a week from Dubai to Lagos. Since then, our operations have steadily grown with increases in both frequency and capacity between Lagos and Dubai. Today, we have a total of more than 12,200 seats a week, which will further stimulate business and leisure travel, as well as trade,” he added.
The new route is served by an Airbus A340-300 which offers 267 seats in a three-class configuration – 12 first class, 42 business class and 213 economy class seats.
Emirates flight EK785 departs Dubai daily at 10:50 hrs and arrives in Abuja at 15:10 hrs. The return flight, EK 786 departs Abuja at 19:35 hrs and arrives in Dubai at 05:50 hrs the next morning.
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