Emirates to resume international passenger flights

May 13, 2020

Emirates is resuming passenger flights to nine destinations in North America, Europe and Australia.

The United Arab Emirates-based carrier’s chief operations officer said the airline is complying with safety measures pertaining to the novel coronavirus as it moves toward a return to regular flights.

“We have implemented additional measures at the airport in coordination with the relevant authorities in respect to social distancing and sanitization,” Adel Al Redha said in a press release today.

Starting on May 21, Emirates will fly to London, Frankfurt, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Chicago, Toronto, Sydney and Melbourne. It will also offer travel from the United Kingdom to Australia via Dubai, the release said.

Emirates, based in the major international transit hub Dubai, stopped almost all of its flights in March amid the coronavirus lockdown in the country. It continued to offer repatriation flights. There has since been an easing of movement restrictions in Dubai.