The UAE’s national airline Emirates will launch a fourth daily service from Dubai International Airport to John F Kennedy International Airport (JFK) in New York from March 8, 2015.

The new service, EK 207 will depart Dubai at 2.50pm and arrive in JFK at 8.35pm (all local time). The return flight, EK 208 will depart JFK at 4.30pm and arrive in Dubai at 1.15pm, the following day.

“This new service will allow passengers the convenience of an afternoon departure from both Dubai and New York, to complement the existing morning and evening departures of our existing three services”, said Emirates’ Hubert Frach, divisional senior vice-president (Commercial Operations, West).

“New York is one of our busiest and most popular routes in the US. Adding this fourth service will give our passengers even more choice of connectivity when flying from any part of our global network, in particular the Far East and South Asia. Once in the US, our partnership with JetBlue adds even more seamless connectivity onto their network of 65 destinations from JFK.”

Passengers from New York will be able to enjoy convenient connections on to destinations such as Johannesburg, Nairobi, India and many cities on Emirates’ Middle East network with connection times under four hours.

Thanks to Emirates’ code-share agreement with JetBlue Airways (B6) the new fourth daily service will allow good connectivity with JetBlue flights to points across the US and Caribbean.

At JFK, JetBlue operates from its Terminal 5, while Emirates operates from the adjacent Terminal 4, allowing for fast and easy connections between flights.

“As New York’s Hometown Airline, we are delighted to see Emirates continue to expand at our main base of operations with this fourth daily service,” said Scott Laurence, JetBlue’s senior vice president of airline planning. “Emirates is a valuable partner for JetBlue, providing our shared customers with high standards of service across an incredible network.”

The fourth JFK service will be operated with one of Emirates’ fleet of A380 aircraft featuring some 14 first class private suites, 76 business class lie-flat beds and 399 economy class seats on the main deck.

Emirates first flew to New York in June 2004 and since then has flown more than 4.5mn passengers on the route. It currently operates two other non-stop services between DXB and JFK operated by A380 aircraft, and one service, which routes via Milan, operated by a US-built Boeing 777.