Emirates, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) airline has increased its flights into the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos to daily.
The airline, which before the novel disease COVID-19 pandemic was flying to Lagos twice daily, but reduced such to only four times weekly on reopening of international flight services by the Federal Government, recently.
The airline has also had running battle with the Nigerian Government when the government suspended it from operating into the country due to implementation of reciprocity policy.
A statement from the airline’s media consultant in Nigeria said that the daily flight commenced on Sunday, November 1, 2020.
The statement hinted that the expanded schedule of daily services would offer air travellers enhanced connectivity for Nigerian customers to Emirates’ growing destination network via Dubai of close to 100 destinations.
Emirates operate its modern Boeing 777-300ERs between Lagos and Dubai.
EK 783 departs Dubai at 10:30, arriving in Lagos at 15:40. The return flight, EK 784, departs Lagos at 18:10, arriving in Dubai at 04:15 the next day.
It said that its clients in Nigeria could stopover or travel to Dubai as the city has re-opened for international business and leisure visitors.
Dubai is one of the world’s first cities to obtain Safe Travels stamp from the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) – which endorses Dubai’s comprehensive and effective measures to ensure guest health and safety.
