Emirates begins daily service to Newark via Athens in March

Emirates has announced that it will launch a new daily service from Dubai to Newark Liberty International Airport, via the Greek capital of Athens, from March 12.
The new route complements Emirates’ existing four daily flights between Dubai and New York’s JFK airport by offering global travellers “another convenient access point” to the popular New York metropolitan area, the airlines has said in a statement.
Emirates’ new Dubai-Athens-Newark flight will also provide a year-round non-stop daily service between the US and Greece – a service that has not existed since 2012.
The airline will operate a Boeing 777-300ER on the route, offering eight seats in First, 42 seats in Business and 304 seats in Economy class, as well as 19 tonnes of belly-hold cargo
capacity.
Sir Tim Clark, president of Emirates Airline, said: “The Greek government and Athens International Airport approached Emirates some time ago to consider serving the route between Athens and New York. After careful review, Emirates concluded that extending one of our Dubai-Athens flights to Newark would be commercially and operationally feasible. We would like to thank the authorities and our partners in both the US and Greece for their support of the new route.”
Elena Kountoura, minister of tourism in Greece, added: “I would like to thank Emirates for having positively considered our request to launch a new Emirates itinerary connecting Dubai with New York via Athens all year round.”
Besides serving the large Greek-American population in the New York City metropolitan area, the availability of one-stop same-plane service to Dubai will offer a “convenient alternative” to travellers headed towards the Middle East, West Asia and Africa, the statement notes.
Flight EK209 will depart Dubai at 10.50am, arriving in Athens at 2.25pm before departing again at 4.40pm and arriving in Newark at 10pm on the same day. The return flight, EK210, will depart Newark at 11.45pm, arriving in Athens the next day at 3.05pm. EK210 will depart once again from Athens at 5.10pm, bound for Dubai, where it will arrive at 11.50pm.