Emirates continues strong growth trajectory

Emirates has plenty to celebrate as 2012 draws to a close and a New Year dawns.
Numerous major milestones were achieved over the past 12 months across the global network.
Emirates continued on its strong growth trajectory adding 15 new destinations to the network since January 2012, bringing new countries, cultures and experiences for customers to explore.
The list of new points began with Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires in January 2012 and continued with Dublin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Seattle, Lusaka, Harare, Ho Chi Minh City, Barcelona, Lisbon, Erbil, Washington DC and Adelaide.
To conclude the year, services to Lyon and Phuket began in December 2012.
The launch of Emirates’ Facebook in late March attracted 300,000 fans in just three weeks. Within only a few more weeks, it was the number one airline on Facebook in the MENA region.
Two months later, the page reached half a million fans and within just seven months of launching in the social media space,
Emirates reached one million fans and is currently ranked one of the highest engaged airline Facebook pages.
The growth of Emirates’ A380 fleet and routes expansion is unparalleled.
On December 10, the airline added an A380 service to London Heathrow which makes all five daily flights serviced by A380s; on December 1 Singapore and Moscow were added, joining the A380 to Melbourne on November 1. From January 1, the introduction of a double daily A380 service for flights to New York and Paris will begin.
The New Year will also see Emirates’ position as the industry-leading A380 operator reinforced with the opening at Dubai International Airport of the world’s first purpose-built A380 concourse in January 2013.
Part of the strategic plan by Dubai Airports to support Emirates’ ambitious growth, the new concourse will also bolster Dubai’s ambition to become the largest international air hub in the world by 2018.