Emirates airline expects return to full capacity by summer 2021

Emirates airline expects return to full capacity by summer 2021

Dubai-based Emirates airline is expecting to be back to full capacity by the summer of next year, according to the carrier's chief operating officer Adel al Redha.

“I think we can easily say that by summer 2021, we will be serving 100 percent of our network destinations – that means 143 destinations will be served by summer '21,” al Redha told CNBC. 

Emirates is gradually reopening routes around the world after the Covid-19-enforced lockdowns and movement restrictions earlier in the year saw the airline's passenger fleet grounded as part of government measures to contain the spread of coronavirus.

The carrier, which is currently operating to over 50 percent of its pre-Covid routes, is set to resume passenger flights to Warsaw from next month, by which time its network will have increased to 75 cities