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 Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:12 am Post subject: Emirates adds Chicago O’Hare, ninth US gateway |
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http://gulfbusiness.com/2014/02/emirates-start-chicago-flights-august/#.UwrgX0ko6M9
Emirates To Start Chicago Flights In August
The windy city will shortly will be served by all three Gulf carriers and becomes Emirates' ninth US gateway
Emirates continues to expand its US network, announcing it will start daily flights to Chicago O’Hare International Airport from August 5.
Flights will be operated on a three-class Boeing 777-200LR aircraft, with EK235 departing Dubai International Airport at 0945 and arriving in Chicago at 1525 local time. The return flight, EK236, will depart O’Hare at 2035 hours, arriving in Dubai at 1910 the next day.
Chicago becomes Emirates’ ninth gateway in the country and flights will start to Boston shortly (March 10).
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justbala
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| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 12:17 pm Post subject: |
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Gosh.. 5 hours on the ground in ORD - Madame BBB is sure to have one of her hissy fits!!  Dont they know how to run airlines?! Look at Air Bundbay - they drop passengers via parachutes and pick up the outbound ones via one of those Star Trke "Beam Me Up Scotty" thingies - combined with air to air refueling their aircrafts are 24*7 up in the sky!! 
On to serious stuff - what would be the impact of this on the AI flight?! Last time I flew on AI, a lot of passengers were connecting from BLR and HYD (where the flight originates) |
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iah87
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| Posted: Mon Feb 24, 2014 11:44 pm Post subject: |
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QR and EY already fly from ORD, so I am not sure of the additional impact of this flight. AI is doing quite well with heavy competition, this flight may not impact AI much, especially when they join Star Alliance and ORD is a Star Hub.
Both QR and EY will feel the pain rather than AI or other European airlines. |
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avbuff
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| Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:45 pm Post subject: |
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The competition will be more to ORD now.
I foresee all EK, EY, QR and AI doing well at ORD. AI has a 82-83 percent year round occupancy on the flight to ORD. This excludes the Staff and mantri babu combo. |
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abhijith16
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| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2014 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| iah87 wrote: | QR and EY already fly from ORD, so I am not sure of the additional impact of this flight. AI is doing quite well with heavy competition, this flight may not impact AI much, especially when they join Star Alliance and ORD is a Star Hub.
Both QR and EY will feel the pain rather than AI or other European airlines. |
Both QR and EY gain good feed with AA.
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