umbaiites recently woke up to yellow cabbies, like the ones in New York, plying city roads. Not a case of teleportation, a la Star Trek. It was simply Emirates� way of announcing its latest route. The Dubai-based airline launched its flights into North America on June 1, 2004, with New York city as the first destination.

This route has a non-stop flight from Dubai to New York on the latest Emirates Airbus A340-500 aircrafts. The daily outbound flight will depart Dubai at 8.00 am (Dubai time) everyday and land at the JFK Airport in New York at 2.00 pm (New York time) on the same day, with the return flight departing New York at 11.30 pm and arriving at Dubai at 8.20 pm the following day. ... more