Dubai-based carrier Emirates will ramp up services to Seoul beginning next month.
Starting 19 February 2024, it will add three additional weekly flights on that route to South Korea.
The new flights will operate as EK324/ EK325 on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The airline’s Boeing 777-300ER aircraft will be deployed for the new services.
EK324 will depart Dubai at 4.45am, landing in Seoul Incheon International Airport at 6.05pm.
The return flight EK325 will depart Seoul at 10pm, arriving in Dubai at 3.15am the following day.
Emirates said that the enhanced services will increase the capacity on flights between Dubai and Seoul by more than 1,000 additional seats per week.
Through the three weekly Boeing 777 flights, Emirates will also provide 45 tonnes of additional cargo capacity between Dubai and Seoul.
The airline launched services to Seoul in 2005 and currently operates a daily Airbus A380 service from Dubai.
With the additional services, the airline will serve Seoul with 10 weekly flights operated by a mix of its A380 and B777-300ER aircraft.
Emirates recently placed US$58 billion worth of new orders with Boeing and Airbus for a total of 310 widebody aircraft.
This included an order for an 90 Boeing 777-9s, 777-8s, and five 787s, worth US$52 billion and 15 additional Airbus A350-900s worth US$6 billion.
In November, the Emirates Group announced its best-ever six-month financial result. It reported a 2023-24 half-year net profit of US$2.7 billion, a 138 per cent increase over the US$ 1.2 billion it reported in the corresponding period last year.