Emirates has announced it is commencing a daily service to Orlando, Florida from 1st September 2015.
The route will be served by a Boeing 777-200LR with eight First Class suites, 42 Business Class lie-flat beds and 216 Economy Class seats.
Emirates flight EK 219 will depart Dubai International Terminal 3 at 03:50 hours local time and arrive at Orlando International Airport Terminal B at 11.40 hours local time, a flying time of 15hrs50mins. The return flight, EK 220 will depart Orlando International at 14:20 hours and arrive into Dubai at 12:30 the following day, a 14hr10min flight.
US visitors continue to visit Dubai in their thousands. In 2014 over 500,000 US citizens stayed in Dubai to conduct business and explore the emirate's array of leisure opportunities.
Emirates' flight, the first direct service from Florida to Dubai, will connect well with many of the airline's services to and from the Middle East, South Asia, the Far East and Africa, giving passengers from those regions seamless connectivity to the "Sunshine State" as Florida is known.
Emirates customers can also connect onto many destinations in the US, the Caribbean and South America through the airline's codeshare partner JetBlue's regional hub in Orlando, which serves 24 cities including San Juan in Puerto Rico; Bogota, Colombia and Nassau, The Bahamas.