Very first Miami-Dubai flight touches down at MIA

The 1st immediate flight involving Dubai and Miami arrived at Miami Worldwide Airport on Thursday.

The arrival marks Emirates’ start of 4 weekly flights involving the two cities. The business canceled the exact service from Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport previous yr.

Travellers on the new route of about 15-16 several hours in the air will vacation on Emirates’ Boeing 777 jets, which attribute 8 private suites in initially class, and function on Sundays, Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays.

Even larger cargo possibilities and much more worldwide connections lured the United Arab Emirates airline to Miami, explained Essa Ahmad, Emirates divisional vice president for the U.S. and Canada.

“We’ve viewed that there is an economic viability on this route…the prospect of expanding the business enterprise is considerably larger,” explained Ahmad. “It tends to make much better perception to go out of Miami.”

Thursday’s flight was the 1st Emirates flight to Miami in the airline’s heritage and the to start with-ever immediate flight amongst the two cities. Pilots waved U.S. and U.A.E. flags out the cockpit home windows as the airplane pulled into its Miami gate next a water cannon salute from green Miami-Dade Fire Rescue vans.

Emirates presently operates 4 weekly passenger flights among Orlando Intercontinental Airport and Dubai, in addition to provider to 11 other U.S. airports.

Miami International Airport is the fifth largest cargo airport in the nation, calculated by landed bodyweight, according to the FAA. Cargo infrastructure permits airways that work passenger flights from the airport to just take on cargo enterprise, way too, which is an extra perk, reported Chris Mangos, director of promoting for the Miami-Dade Aviation Section. Emirates commenced cargo-only flights from MIA in October 2020.

Florida is the sixth-largest exporting condition to the U.A.E., according to a 2020 report by the country’s Washington, D.C., embassy. That calendar year, computer system digital product or service manufacturing and equipment manufacturing ended up the most significant exporting sectors, the report located.

Present bookings on the new MIA route are mostly made up of people likely on getaway or traveling to household and friends, stated Ahmad. Company vacation bookings are starting up to decide on up, but still lag at this point in the COVID-19 pandemic.

Emirates is the fourth airline to announce its start from MIA in the previous calendar year, following Southwest Airways, JetBlue and Spirit Airways, which formerly operated completely from Fort Lauderdale in South Florida.

“We are grateful another airport has dropped Emirates for our attain,” said Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava.