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Dubai: With the first phase of flight operations from Emirates Terminal 3 at Dubai International proceeding as planned, Emirates is ready to launch the next phase from the new terminal on Tuesday at 2pm.
After launching flights to countries on its GCC and Americas network in the first phase from the new terminal, the second phase involves Emirates launching flights to the rest of the Middle East and Africa, increasing operations to 99 flights a day, 37 per cent of all the airline's flights.
All flight numbers in the 200, 700, 800, 900 series and any extra flights on these routes will now depart and arrive at Emirates Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport.
The first Emirates flights in phase two are: EK903 to Amman and EK913 to Damascus departing at 2pm.
The first flight to arrive at Emirates Terminal 3 will be EK912 from Damascus at 2.50pm.
In the first five days of operations, Emirates Terminal 3 handled 86 flight departures, 87 arrivals and 36,000 passengers. More than 47,300 pieces of luggage have been handled by the baggage system, which is the largest and of underground systems in the world.
More than 4,000 customers have enjoyed the facilities at the Emirates First and Business Class Lounges, while the Marhaba Lounge welcomed more than 250 passengers.
"Emirates maintained schedule integrity, the baggage systems proved robust, passenger services were exemplary and we have received excellent feedback from our passengers," Emirates President Tim Clark said.
"We could not have asked for a better opening week and we hope to move our entire operations to Emirates Terminal 3 by December this year."
Flights to Europe will take off in the third phase, escalating operations to 168 daily flights or 60 per cent of all Emirates services.
The fourth and final phase will include flights to the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and Australasia, taking the total operations to 269 flights a day.
Schedule: Destinations
From Tuesday, Emirates will fly to 32 online destinations from Emirates Terminal 3.
- GCC/Middle East: Amman, Bahrain, Beirut, Damascus, Dhahran, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat, Riyadh, Sana'a and Tehran.
- Africa: Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Entebbe, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tripoli and Tunisia.
- Americas: New York, Houston, Sao Paulo and Toronto. Emirates will launch services to Los Angeles from October 26 and San Francisco from December 15.
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