Emirates will operate its flights EK408 and EK409 as non-stop services from Dubai to Melbourne from October 30, 2016, offering business travellers another direct flight option to the capital of the Australian state of Victoria.
The current service from Dubai to Melbourne operates via Kuala Lumpur in both directions. These flight changes will save passengers approximately 2.5 hours in travel time in each direction. Operated with a B777-300ER aircraft, EK408 will depart Dubai at 03:00 and arrive in Melbourne at 23:20. The return flight, EK409, will leave Melbourne at 06:00 and land in Dubai at 13:05.
Emirates offers a total of four daily flights from Dubai to Melbourne with codeshare partner Qantas, including three services operated on an A380 aircraft and one flight on a B777-300ER. With this change, these four daily services will include two daily non-stop flights to Melbourne from Dubai on Emirates and one flight on Qantas aircraft, as well as one daily Emirates flight that operates via Singapore.
Together, Emirates and Qantas operate 91 flights per week to Australia from Dubai. Of these 91 flights, 77 of these are Emirates services, which operate to and from Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney, including six daily A380 flights. www.emirates.com
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