Dubai-London travel: Airline announces daily flight operations from 2024

Dubai-London travel: Airline announces daily flight operations from 2024

Published: Mon 6 Nov 2023, 7:21 PM Last updated: Mon 6 Nov 2023, 7:31 PM

British carrier Virgin Atlantic, which resumed its flights between London Heathrow and Dubai last week, on Monday said it would ramp up to a daily service next year to cash in on growing demand for leisure tourism between the two cities.

It launched a seasonal winter service on October 30, operating four flights a week and plans to increase it to daily service from October 2024 to March 2025.

Owned by billionaire Richard Branson, Virgin Atlantic last operated flights to Dubai in March 2019.

London-Dubai is one of the busiest air routes and was ranked the fourth busiest global air route in 2022 with over 2.697 million seats, according to OAG data. It was also the second busiest route for Dubai Airport after Jeddah.

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As aviation continues to recover at an exponential pace, airlines are launching new routes. Air India, Air Canada, Cyprus Airways, Maldives-based Beond and many other airlines have added Dubai to their growing list of new destinations as the emirate strengthens its position as a global aviation hub.

The UK airline on Monday said it “aims