Emirates Makes A380 & 777 Changes

Emirates is gearing up for a busy 2026 and, with that, is making changes to its schedules for the Boeing 777 and Airbus A380 aircraft across the Northern Summer season.

Specifically, the airline has filed schedule changes for its 2-class Airbus A380. This high-capacity aircraft, with over 600 passengers, is being deployed across markets worldwide.

Amman and Madinah will welcome the two-class superjumbo in the coming months, the airline having scheduled Amman services to commence on 14 April 2026 as EK904/905, with this deployment to cease on 31 May 2026.

Then, between 14 May 2026 and 21 May 2026, on EK809/810 across Tuesdays and Fridays; meanwhile, on EK807/808 between 18 May 2026 and 21 May 2026, on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday.

As for the airlines’ 2-class A380 operations, they will deploy the aircraft to markets around the world, whether to Europe or Asia, or even locally in the Middle East.

Utilising its home base in Dubai, the carrier will offer the specific configuration on services to Birmingham, Bangkok, Copenhagen, Denpasar, Düsseldorf, London Gatwick, Manchester, Mauritius, Prague and Taipei Taoyuan.

Emirates Switches Seattle Flights

In addition to the A380 plans being firmed up, the Dubai-based carrier confirmed in a schedule update that it will make changes to its Dubai-Seattle route.

Scheduled for the Northern Summer 2026 season and thus commencing on 29 March 2026, the airline will no longer see the Boeing 777-300ER deployed on this route with the First Class product.

The carrier will instead deploy the lower-capacity 777-200LR, and this daily flight will no longer offer first class through to Seattle once this change takes effect, as flagged by Aeroroutes.

Flight EK229 is scheduled to depart Dubai International at 0955 with a 1325 arrival into Seattle. The return flight departs Seattle at 1715, with a lengthy flight and touchdown at 1830, all times local.