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Please use
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Information:
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ForeignPolicy

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Good causes:

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Regional Info:

BKK Magazine
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Back in the UK:
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There are many other links on my AOB blog page.

 

Tai's Travels - Year 6

This page records the fourth year of Tai's travels with Emirates Airline, starting from 1 December 2009, starting with a month of standby flying in December 2009.

 The most recent flight is shown first. The map is of countries visited on a layover or a turnaround flight. Note year 3 is already up to 75 trips in the ten months to the end of September.
Links

Tai's Travels Year One -  69 trips
Tai's Travels Year Two -  69 trips
Tai's travels Year Three - 87 trips
Tai's travels Year Four
79 trips
Tai's travels Year Five - 72 trips

Tai's Blog - adventures of an EK jet-setter. Many more pictures.
Emirates Airline - the company's web site
Dubai Airport - the airport's own web site - good arrival/departure information


Tai's Travels - the picture gallery. Pictures from her travels with Emirates are here:

Africa
Europe
Asia and Australia
Americas

Tai's well known passengers

 

 

Expand … Emirates' Tim Clark.Tim Clark
President of Emirates Airline

(twice!)

Gordon Ramsay - F word chef and TV person

boomtown ratBob Geldof - Boomtown Rat - and hunger campaigner.

Muhammad Yunus - founder of Grameen Bank, and 2006 winner of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

Sheikh Rashed Bin Mohammed Al Maktoum

Deepika Padukone - Bollywood actress

Hrithik Roshan - grumpy Bollywood actor with family.    

Flight
No.

New
City No.

Destination

Date

Flight Numbers

Layover Nights

Notes and Pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

400

 

Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires

28 February to 2 March 2012

247/248

4 days away, 2 nights layover

 

399

 

Venice

22-23 February 2012

135/136

Two days away, one night layover

 

398

95 and 96

Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires

15-18 February 2012

247/248

4 days away, 2 nights layover

 

397

 

Tehran

11 February 2012

975/976

Overnight turnaround

 

396

 

Venice

7-8 February 2012

135/136

Two days away, one night layover

 

395

 

Venice

3-4 February 2012

135/136

Two days away, one night layover

 

394

 

New York

27-29 January 2012

203/204

Three nights away, one night layover.

393

94

Medinah

21 January 2012

807/808

Overnight turnaround

 

392

93

Dublin

16-17 January 2012

161/162

Two days away, one night layover

308

 

Beijing

12-14 January 2012

308/309

2 nights away, 1 night layover

390

 

Bahrain and Doha

9 January 2012

837/838
843/844

Double turnaround

 

389

 

Kuwait

8 January 2012

855/856

Turnaround

 

388

 

Mumbai

4-5 January 2012

500/501

Overnight turnaround

 

387

 

Tunis

1-2 January 2012

747/748

Two days away, one night layover

 

386

 

Kuwait

30 December 2011

859/860

Turnaround

 

385

92

Milan

24 - 25 December 2011

93/94

Two days away, one night layover

384

 

Bangkok

20 - 22 December 2011

374/375

Two nights away, one night layover

 

383

 

Amsterdam

17 - 18 December 2011

147/148

Two days away, one night layover

382

 

Delhi

14 December 2011

516/517

Turnaround

 

381

 

Sanaa

13 December 2011

961/962

Turnaround

 

380

 

Damman

11 December 2011

821/822

Turnaround

 

379

 

Mauritius

8 - 10 December 2011

3705/3706

Two days away, one night layover

378

 

Guangzhou

4 - 6 December 2011

362/363

Two nights away, one night layover

377

 

Beirut

3 December 2011

957/958

Turnaround

 

Emirates has 102 passenger destinations (excluding Dubai) now all served from Emirates Terminal 3 at Dubai. New destinations have been visited as follows.

49 cities visited for the first time in year 1 in Blue.
14 cities visited for the first time in year 2 in Green.
14 cities visited for the first time in year 3 in Orange
11cities visited for the first time in year 4 in Purple
 
2 cities visited in year 5 in Grey
 5 cities visited in year 6 in Black

15 still to visit in Red

110 in total by end 2012 (excluding Dubai)

South Asia [17 destinations]: Ahmedabad, Mumbai (Bombay), Bangalore, Chennai (Madras),  Cochin (Kochi), Colombo, Delhi, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Male, Peshawar, Thiruvananthapuram, Kolkatta and Kozhikode.

Asia and Australasia [19 destinations]: Auckland, Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Christchurch, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Melbourne, Nagoya, Osaka, Perth, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo.

Europe [29 destinations]: Amsterdam, Athens, Birmingham, Copenhagen, Dublin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Hamburg, Istanbul, Larnaca, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Madrid, Malta, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Newcastle, Nice, Paris, Prague, St Petersburg, Rome, Vienna, Zurich and Venice.

GCC/Middle East [15 destinations]
: Amman, Bahrain, Basra, Baghdad, Beirut, Damascus, Dhahran (Damman), Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat, Riyadh, Sana’a, Tehran, Medinah.

Africa [21destinations]
: Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Dakar, Durban, Entebbe, Harare, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Lusaka, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tripoli, Tunis and Luanda (Laounde).

Americas [9 destinations]: Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, San Francisco and Toronto

Emirates Destinations:

South Asia                   17
Asia Pacific                 19
Europe                        29
GCC/Middle Easy         15
Africa                         21
Americas                      9

Total                         110

Cargo Only to: Toledo, Taipei, Kabul, Gothenburg, Almaty, Bagram, Eldoret, Zaragoza, Campinas (Brazil), Lilongwe. 10 destinations.

Total EK                     120. Agreed to Emirates web site.

New destinations coming in 2012: Seattle (1 March), Ho Chi Mihn City (4 June)