Emirates sets record with up to 13 daily Dubai-London flights for winter season

Heathrow will have seven daily flights except on Fridays when there will be six. Most of these are scheduled with A380s and some with Boeing 777-300ERs. Stansted remains at two daily services using the Boeing 777-300ER.

On February 8 specifically, all three airports will see full schedules except for Fridays when one less flight operates. The departure banks from Dubai are structured around early morning and afternoon waves that connect with inbound long-haul arrivals and facilitate onward connections to destinations such as Bangkok, Johannesburg, Melbourne, and Sydney.

Emirates began passenger operations at Stansted in June 2018 and expanded to double-daily service within a year. After suspending flights during the pandemic, it resumed operations in August 2022 and doubled frequencies again in May of the following year. In 2024, UK Civil Aviation Data shows that Emirates carried approximately 436,224 passengers through Stansted out of about 525,892 available seats—a load factor of roughly 83%. Booking data indicates that most travelers (63%) used Stansted as a connecting point for further travel worldwide; popular onward destinations included Bangkok, Colombo, Male, Brisbane, and Melbourne.

This expansion highlights growing competition among Gulf carriers for transcontinental traffic between Europe and Asia via their respective hubs.