According to a short news report published on the AME Info web site, Emirates is to shift one of its Airbus A380 super-jumbo jets onto one of its twice-daily flights between Dubai and Bangkok. The change takes effect on 1 June 2009, at the start of the summer travel season in the gulf, when many residents escape the searing heat to more pleasant destinations like Thailand (yes, believe it or not, Thailand is a nicer place to be than Dubai in August). The A380 is being redeployed off the airline’s New York JFK route. They didn’t say why, but it’s probably due to much lower demand thanks to the economic crisis.
I may be mistaken, but I think this will mark the first regularly scheduled A380 flights to Bangkok. The airport is supposedly ready for them, but it will be interesting to see how the first few flights go.
