Emirates Airlines will resume passenger service between Dubai and Nigeria on December 5, 2021,
the airline of the (UAE) confirmed this on Thursday.
The restart of services comes ten months after the carrier halted flights to Nigeria due to a diplomatic spat over COVID-19 agreements between the two countries.
“Emirates will resume passenger operations between Dubai and Nigeria on December 5, 2021, offering customers greater connectivity to and through Dubai,” the airline announced.
“The world’s largest international airline will run daily flights to and from its Nigerian gateways, giving Nigerians easy access to Dubai, which remains a popular vacation and business destination.” Travelers will also be able to connect safely to Emirates’ global network of over 120 destinations via Dubai.
“Emirates will use EK 785 and 786 to fly to Abuja. EK 785 will leave Dubai at 11:00 a.m. and arrive in Abuja at 15:40 a.m. EK 786, the return flight, would leave Abuja at 1900 hrs and arrive in Dubai at 0435 hrs the next day. Emirates flight EK 783 departs Dubai at 1030 a.m. and arrives in Lagos at 1540 a.m. The return flight, EK 784, will leave Lagos at 1810 hours and arrive in Dubai at 0415 hours the following day. All flights are available to book on emirates.com, through OTAs, and travel agents. Throughout the epidemic, Emirates has aided its customers in traveling safely and confidently by implementing industry-leading health and safety precautions at every stage of the journey, assisting communities in reuniting faster, and supporting economic recovery.
“The airline has also worked hard to give up-to-date, comprehensive travel information to its customers, as well as speeding up processes on the ground with digital verification for Covid-19 via the IATA Travel Pass, touchless check-in, and biometrics processing,” says the statement.