Emirates A380 at Delhi

[himmat01]

Emirates A380 at Delhi on it's first commercial flight to Delhi. It was here for the inauguration of Terminal 3.

[Abbas Ali]

Nice photo Himmat - looks like Delhi was enjoying Monsoon rain at that time.

Is Emirates planning to operate Airbus A380 on regular basis between India and Dubai ?

What aircraft types are operated by Indian carriers for flights between India and Dubai ?

Abbas

[irfanjaffry]

It was a special one-off flight to mark the inauguration of terminal at Delhi airport as well as the completion of 25 years of service between Dubai and India.

[Abbas Ali]

^ Thank you Irfan for the info.

Abbas

[tabrez]

have emirates plan to send a a380 to pakistan? (Karachi or Lahore)

[himmat01]

Nice photo Himmat - looks like Delhi was enjoying Monsoon rain at that time.

Is Emirates planning to operate Airbus A380 on regular basis between India and Dubai ?

What aircraft types are operated by Indian carriers for flights between India and Dubai ?

Abbas

Thanks for your kind comments... We are enjoying the monsoon rains these days. I almost missed the Airbus A380 on that day because of the sudden change in the wind. I drove like crazy from the 29 side of the rwy to the 11 side, only to miss the touch down by a second. Good thing was that the road was parallel to the rwy.

Emirates can offer regular A380 flights to India only after the revision of bilateral agreement which at the moment restricts the a/c size to B744.

Emirates operates 184 weekly flights to India to around 10 destinations.

It operates almost all the a/c in its fleet to India except the Airbus A380.

[Abbas Ali]

^ Thank you Himmat for details.

Abbas

[H Khan]

Emirates will not be operating A-380 to any of the south asian countries according to their officials.

This specific flight actually performed a go-around because the captain of the airliner which which had landed prior to EK A-380 had made the comment that 'the run was wet and braking was sluggish.' The Captain of EK A-380 decided to go-around and give more time for the rain water to disperse from the runway.

[riz]

quite a view ... delhi is fortunate enuf to witness the ugly big machine.

[Pineapple]

Can you post pics of new terminal 3 also?

[himmat01]

Can you post pics of new terminal 3 also?

Here are two picture, I took on May 22nd.






Some pictures from the official website of the airport.

http://www.newdelhiairport.in/photo-gallery.aspx

[himmat01]

Complete list of Emirates flights to India. I wanted to post this in my earlier reply to Abbas but was unable to get the figures at that time.

1)
DXB - BOM::: 35 weekly

EK 500/501: daily B77W (with suites)
EK 502/503: 3 weekly B772 + 4 weekly B77W(suites)
EK 504/505 3 weekly B772 + 4 weekly B77W(suites)
EK 506/507: daily A332
EK 508/509: daily A345 till 30th Jun and then to daily A332

* 6th. daily coming soon. Master plan is to have 10 daily flights.

All are 3 class operations

2)
DXB - DEL::: 28 weekly

EK 510/511 6 weekly B772 + 1B77W(suites) (down from 2 to 1 B77W)
EK 512/513 B77W (with suites)
EK 514/515 A332
EK 516/517 A332

All are 3 class operations

3)
DXB - HYD::: 21 weekly

EK 524/525 : 4 B772 + 1 A332 (both 3 class)
EK 526/527 : A332 (5 weekly 3 class + 2 weekly 2 class)
EK 528/529 : A332 (4 weekly 3 class + 3 weekly 2 class)

17/21 are 3 class operations.

4)
DXB - MAA::: 21 weekly

EK 542/543: 5 weekly 3 class + 2 weekly 2 class
EK 544/545: 5 weekly 3 class + 2 weekly 2 class
EK 546/547: 4 weekly A332 + 3weekly B772 ( 2 class)

10/21 are 3 class operations.

5)
DXB - BLR::: 20 weekly

EK 564/565: A332 ( 5 weekly 2 class + 2 weekly 3 class)
EK 566/567: A332 ( 6 weekly 2 class)
EK 568/569: A332 (3 class)

9/20 are 3 class operations.

6)
DXB - COK::: 14 weekly

EK 530/532: daily B772 (2 class till june 3010) will change to 5 weekly B772 (2class) + 1 weekly B77W (3 class) + 1 weekly A332 (3class)
EK 532/533: 4 weekly A332 + 3 class B772 ( 2 class)

All 2 class operations except the B77W.

7)
DXB - CCU::: 12 weekly

A332 12 weekly

All 2 class operations


DXB - TRV::: 12 weekly

A332

All 2 class operations

9)
DXB - CCJ::: 11 weekly

6 weekly B772 + 5 weekly A332

All are 2 class operations.

10)
DXB - AMD::: 10 weekly

A332 10 weekly

All 2 class operations

Details courtesy: Avbuff from AI.net.

[Abbas Ali]

^ Thank you Himmat for details. That's a huge number of flights with Emirates widebody aircraft operated between Dubai and major cities of India.

Is it also possible to know total number of flights operated by Indian carriers to/from Dubai and types of aircraft operated by them ?

Many of those Emirates flights must be transporting significantly large number of passengers between India and other cities of the world via airline's hub airport in Dubai.

Surely there must be passenger load justifying this number of Emirates flights and passengers must be happy about the availability of this number of flights offering competitive fares. Passengers gain benefits from healthy competition between airlines.

But are leading international carriers of India i.e. Air India and Jet Airways okay with this number of flights operated by Emirates or do they express some sort of concern against this number of flights operated by Emirates ?

Abbas

[himmat01]

^^^
All details courtesy:AVBUFF

As requested, details of flights between Indian cities and Dubai.

DXB is connected to 17 cities in India and the list is:

LKO, ATQ, DEL, JAI, CCU, AMD, BOM, PNQ, HYD, BLR, GOI, IXE, MAA, TRZ, CCJ, COK, TRV

EK = Emirates ( 184 flights per week)
AIX = Air India Express ( 58 flights per week)
AI = Air India (14 flights per week)
IC = Air India operating under Indian Airlines code (39 weekly flights)
IT = Kingfisher Airlines (21 weekly flights)
9W = Jet Airways (35 weekly flights)
Z5 = GMG airlines (2 weekly flights)

So currently DXB and India have 353 flights per week.

(1) Ahmedabad; Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel International Airport (AMD)

EK: 10 weekly A332

(2) Amritsar; Raja Sansi International Airport (ATQ)

AIX: 7 weekly B738

(3) Bangalore International Airport, Devanhalli (BLR)

EK: 20 weekly A332
IT: 7 weekly A321

(4) Chennai; Anna International Airport (MAA)

EK: currently 21 weekly ( 9 weekly A332 + 7 weekly B772 +4 weekly B773 + 1 weekly B77W)
9W: 7 weekly B738
IC: 7 weekly A321

(5) Kolkata; Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose International Airport (CCU)

EK: 12 weekly A332

(6) Delhi; Indira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)

EK: 28 weekly (14 weekly A332 + 8 B77W + 6 B772)
AI: 7 weekly A321
IC: 7 weekly A321 continuing to JAI
9W: 7 weekly B738
IT: 7 weekly A320
Z5: 2 weekly MD 83

(7) Jaipur, Sanganeer International Airport (JAI)

AIX: 3 weekly B738

( Lucknow, Amausi International Airport (LKO)

AIX: 4 weekly B738

(9) Goa, Dabolim International Airport (GOI)

IC: 4 weekly A319

(10) Hyderabad, Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (HYD)

EK: 21 weekly (17 weekly A332 + 4 weekly B772)
IC: 7 weekly A321
AIX: 3 weekly B738 continuing to MAA
9W: 7 weekly B738

(11) Kochi, Cochin International Airport Ltd (Nedumbassery) (COK)

EK: 14 weekly ( 5 weekly A332 + 8 weekly B772 + 1 weekly B77W)
AIX: 7 weekly B738

(12) Kozhikode, Kozhikode International Airport, Karipur (CCJ)

EK: 11 weekly ( 5 weekly A332 + 6 weekly B772)
AIX: 7 weekly B738
IC: 7 weekly A320

(13) Mangalore, Bajpe International Airport (IXE)

AIX: 10 weekly B738 (2 of the flights continuing to CCJ)

(14) Mumbai, Chattrapati Shivaji International Airport (BOM)

EK: 35 weekly ( 14 weekly A332 + 6 weekly B772 + 15 weekly B77W)
AI: 7 weekly A321
IC: 7 weekly A321
9W: 14 weekly B738
IT: 7 weekly A320

(15) Pune Interntional Airport, Lohegaon (PNQ)

AIX: 3 weekly B738 continuing to BOM

(16) Thiruvananthapuram, International Airport (TRV)

EK: 12 weekly A332
AIX: 7 weekly B738

(17) Trichurapally, International Airport (TRZ)

AIX: 7 weekly B738

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Seats/Frequencies offered by EK : 53,000 approx/184 flights pw
Seats/Frequencies offered by Indian carriers: 26,300 approx/167 flights pw
Seats/Frequencies offered by Z5 : 190 approx approx/2 flights pw

[himmat01]

Surely there must be passenger load justifying this number of Emirates flights and passengers must be happy about the availability of this number of flights offering competitive fares. Passengers gain benefits from healthy competition between airlines.

But are leading international carriers of India i.e. Air India and Jet Airways okay with this number of flights operated by Emirates or do they express some sort of concern against this number of flights operated by Emirates ?

Most passangers on EK flights are bound for places other than DXB. We some times joke that EK is an international airline of India. On the other hand, most passengers on Indian carriers to DXB and other places in Gulf are O&D types. EK makes a killing on the routes where there are no direct flights between India and the destination. Some people even fly EK to SYD,MEL and AKL.

Airlines in India are not okay with the mindless expansion of Gulf airlines to India. EK is just the tip of the iceberg. ET and QR are also expanding rapidly. Airlines have a problem with the Indian Government's policy of permitting only the airlines with operations of 5 years and a fleet of 20 aircrafts to fly abroad. On the other hand startups like FlybyDubai and NAS Air are allowed easy access to the Indian market.