Tickets with Emirates are mostly worth buying directly from the carrier's website.
Emirates may not be part of any multinational alliance, but they do work with many airlines around the world, so you can also buy a combination ticket with Emirates and transfer to another carrier.
When to buy tickets and prices
Emirates is one of the relatively expensive airlines and bargain promotions don't come along very often.
It's particularly worth buying flights with Emirates if you have a fixed date for your trip and are not flexible on time. In fact, Emirates offer such a wide range of destinations, and often fly to multiple times a day, that their flight deals are often the quickest available.
In particular, it's worth buying tickets with Emirates when travelling between Europe/North/South America and Asia or Australia.
Fare classes
Emirates offers economy, business and first class.
Especially first class on Airbus A380 aircraft is an extraordinary experience. Emirates, along with rival Etihad Airways for example, is one of the only airlines in the world to have a shower for first class passengers directly on board the aircraft.
However, Emirates has an infinitely greater number of aircraft with showers than Etihad Airways (116 to 6).
The different classes are further divided into different fare groups, which vary by, for example, the number of baggage allowances, the ability to change tickets or the number of frequent flyer miles credited per flight.
Destinations and route map
The airline operates all its flights from its main base at the airport Dubai DXB.
Emirates serves over 130 destinations on all continents. The airline currently flies to the following airports:
- Africa - Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Algiers, Antananarivo, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Conakry, Dakar, Dar es Salaam, Durban, Entebbe, Harare, Johannesburg, Lagos, Luanda, Lusaka, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tunis
- Asia - Ahmedabad, Amman, Bahrain, Bangkok BKK, Bengaluru, Beijing PEK, Cebu, Chennai, Clark, Colombo, Dammam, Delhi, Denpasar Bali, Dhaka, Doha, Guangzhou, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Hong Kong, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Jakarta, Jeddah, Karachi, Kochi, Kolkata, Kuala Lumpur, Kuwait, Lahore, Male, Manila, Medina, Mumbai, Muscat, Osaka KIX, Peshawar, Phnom Penh, Phuket, Riyadh, Shanghai PVG, Sialkot, Singapore, Seoul ICN, Taipei, Tehran, Thiruvananthapuram, Tokyo HND, Tokyo NRT
- Australia and Oceania - Adelaide, Auckland, Brisbane, Christchurch, Melbourne, Perth, Sydney
- Europe - Amsterdam, Athens, Barcelona, Birmimgham, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Hamburg, Istanbul, Larnaca, Lisbon, London LHR, London LGW, London STN, Lyon, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Milan MXP, Munich, Newcastle, Nice, Oslo, Paris CDG, Prague, Rome FCO, Stockholm ARN, Venice, Vienna, Warsaw, Zurich
- North America - Boston, Chicago ORD, Dallas DFW, Houston IAH, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Miami, Montreal, Newark, New York JFK, Orlando, San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, Washington IAD
- South America - Bogota, Buenos Aires EZE, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo GRU
For routes to smaller cities in the Middle East not served directly by Emirates, the airline partners with Flydubai.
For an interactive map of all routes, visit routemap.emirates.com.
