Emirates plans to launch a new daily service from Dubai to Auckland via the island of Bali, Indonesia, starting from June 14, 2018.
The new service will offer global travellers a total of 3 daily services to New Zealand, complementing Emirates’ existing non-stop daily service between Dubai and Auckland and its current daily A380 service between Dubai and Christchurch via Sydney. Travellers will also enjoy a choice of three daily services between Dubai to Bali in the summer*, as the new flight adds to Emirates’ two existing daily services which are currently operated by a Boeing 777 300-ER in a two-class configuration.
Emirates’ new Dubai-Bali-Auckland flight will provide the only year-round non-stop daily service between Auckland and Bali, giving passengers an opportunity to visit and/or stopover in one of the most popular islands in Indonesia. The airline will operate a 777-300ER on the route, offering 8 seats in First, 42 seats in Business and 304 seats in Economy class, as well as 20 tonnes of belly-hold cargo capacity.
President of Emirates Airline, Sir Tim Clark, said the airline was confident that their year-round service between Auckland and Bali will be well received by customers, not only in New Zealand and Indonesia, but also from their global network particularly from markets like the UK, Europe and the Middle East.”
With its spectacular mountains and picturesque beaches, Bali is considered to be a world leading tourist destination, welcoming more than 4.5 million foreign tourist arrivals in 2016, including over 40,500 New Zealanders. Emirates’ new service will add to Bali’s global connectivity, further stimulating the island’s economic and tourism growth.
Flight details and connections to Emirates’ global network and beyond
Apart from the opportunity for a stopover in Bali, the new service will provide excellent connections to/from London and other major European cities. The southbound flight, EK 450, will depart Dubai at 6:55am, arriving at Denpasar (Bali) at 8:20pm local time, before flying on to Auckland at 10pm, arriving in at 10:00am the following day
Northbound, the new service will depart Auckland as flight EK 451 at the convenient time of 12:40pm, arriving in Denpasar at 5:55pm local time. It will depart Denpasar at 7:50pm, arriving in Dubai just after midnight at 00:45am, connecting to flights to many of the points beyond on the extensive Emirates and flydubai partnership network.