Emirates to fly A good380 superjumbo to Bahrain in one-off celebration

Emirates will fly its superjumbo to Bahrain to celebrate the kingdom's 49th National Day.

The Dubai airline will operate the one-off A380 flight to Bahrain on Tuesday, December 15. Emirates says it really is because of higher passenger demand during the approaching national day, which is on Wednesday, December 16.

Flight EK839 will depart Dubai AIRPORT TERMINAL just after 4pm in Tuesday. The one-and-a-half hour flight will operate as EK840 from Bahrain to Dubai, landing in the UAE at 8pm. Economy class fares for the flight begin from Dh810, one-way.

Passengers flying into Bahrain must have a Covid-19 test on arrival. Travellers must then self-isolate until they receive their negative results. Anyone residing in Bahrain for a lot more than 10 days will have to have a second test. Children under 6 need not be tested.

Travellers flying to Dubai from Bahrain have the choice to take a complimentary Covid-19 PCR test on arrival, or they are able to choose to take the test up to 96 hours before their flight departure time.

Emirates features been flying to neighbouring Bahrain for a lot more than 20 years and has transported a lot more than six million passengers between your two destinations. During this time, the airline features deployed its A380 on only six occasions. These flights had been plying during busy Eid travel and leisure periods, on Bahrain’s National Day in 2017, and as section of the Bahrain air show.

After temporarily halting a lot of its signature A380 services as a result of Covid-19 pandemic, Emirates recently reinstated almost all of its luxury offerings, like the on-plank lounge and in-flight shower spa. New safety precautions have been launched to the services to help ensure passenger safety.

Emirates is slowly resuming its passenger network around the world, including on its A good380 jumbo jets. The double-decker aircraft currently flies to Cairo, Amman, Paris, London, Guangzhou, Manchester and Moscow. It has also been employed as a mini-freighter on some cargo charter businesses across Emirates' network.

As the world's biggest customer of the Airbus A380, the Dubai airline welcomed its 116th double-decker on December 4 and has two more A380s scheduled for delivery later this month, among which is fitted with the airline's long-awaited premium economy offering.