To be included among the most frequently served routes this month, an airport pair needed at least 93 scheduled one-way flights in August. Eleven pairs met this threshold. Notably close were Etihad’s Abu Dhabi–London Heathrow route with up to three daily flights and Qatar Airways’ Doha–Bangkok Suvarnabhumi route with as many as three daily departures.
Among the busiest A380 routes:
- Dubai to London Heathrow has six daily Emirates flights.
- Dubai to Bangkok Suvarnabhumi sees four daily Emirates services.
- Singapore to Sydney is operated three to four times per day by Singapore Airlines and Qantas.
- Other high-frequency routes include Dubai connections with Cairo, Jeddah (with special high-capacity configurations on select dates), London Gatwick (where frequencies will increase further in February 2026), Manchester, New York JFK (one flight via Milan Malpensa), Paris CDG and Sydney—all primarily operated by Emirates.
- The Singapore–London Heathrow corridor features two Singapore Airlines flights plus a daily Qantas service that continues or originates from Sydney.
Emirates has used the A380 on its Dubai–Heathrow link since 2008 and now operates six such departures each day—its highest regular frequency using the type. In comparison, Qatar Airways will operate up to ten daily services between Doha and Heathrow this winter season; this rises to twelve when British Airways’ partnership is considered.
Emirates last used a non-A380 aircraft—a Boeing 777-300ER—on its Heathrow route in October of the previous year. At that time it had seven total daily passenger services between Dubai and London’s main airport. The airline has stated that operations at Heathrow generate more profit than all its Indian Subcontinent destinations combined. Last year about sixty percent of passengers connecting through Dubai flew onward from major cities including Sydney and Melbourne.
Compared with August last year, only one airport pair dropped out of the most-served list: Seoul Incheon–Los Angeles. Previously offered four times a day jointly by Asiana and Korean Air using only A380s—with a total of 124 monthly departures—the route now sees just 64 A380 flights split unevenly between both carriers alongside other widebody types like the Airbus A350-900 and Boeing models. This shift led to an eleven percent decrease in average seats per Los Angeles-bound flight compared with last year.
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