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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
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Tai's well known passengers |
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Tim
Clark
President of Emirates Airline
(twice!) |
Gordon
Ramsay - F word chef and TV person |
Bob
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. |
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Flight
No. |
New
City No. |
Destination
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Date |
Flight Numbers |
Layover Nights |
Notes and Pictures |
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400 |
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Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires |
28 February to 2 March 2012 |
247/248 |
4 days away, 2 nights layover |
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399 |
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Venice |
22-23 February 2012 |
135/136 |
Two days away, one night layover |
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398 |
95 and 96 |
Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires |
15-18 February 2012 |
247/248 |
4 days away, 2 nights layover |
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397 |
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Tehran |
11 February 2012 |
975/976 |
Overnight turnaround |
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396 |
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Venice |
7-8 February 2012 |
135/136 |
Two days away, one night layover |
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395 |
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Venice |
3-4 February 2012 |
135/136 |
Two days away, one night layover |
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394 |
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New York |
27-29 January 2012 |
203/204 |
Three nights away, one night layover. |
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393 |
94 |
Medinah |
21 January 2012 |
807/808 |
Overnight turnaround |
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392 |
93 |
Dublin |
16-17 January 2012 |
161/162 |
Two days away, one night layover |
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308 |
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Beijing |
12-14 January 2012 |
308/309 |
2 nights away, 1 night layover |
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390 |
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Bahrain and Doha |
9 January 2012 |
837/838
843/844 |
Double turnaround |
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389 |
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Kuwait |
8 January 2012 |
855/856 |
Turnaround |
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388 |
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Mumbai |
4-5 January 2012 |
500/501 |
Overnight turnaround |
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387 |
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Tunis |
1-2 January 2012 |
747/748 |
Two days away, one night layover |
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386 |
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Kuwait |
30 December 2011 |
859/860 |
Turnaround |
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385 |
92 |
Milan |
24 - 25 December 2011 |
93/94 |
Two days away, one night layover |
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384 |
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Bangkok |
20 - 22 December 2011 |
374/375 |
Two nights away, one night layover |
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383 |
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Amsterdam |
17 - 18 December 2011 |
147/148 |
Two days away, one night layover |
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382 |
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Delhi |
14 December 2011 |
516/517 |
Turnaround |
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381 |
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Sanaa |
13 December 2011 |
961/962 |
Turnaround |
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380 |
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Damman |
11 December 2011 |
821/822 |
Turnaround |
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379 |
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Mauritius |
8 - 10 December 2011 |
3705/3706 |
Two days away, one night layover |
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378 |
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Guangzhou |
4 - 6 December 2011 |
362/363 |
Two nights away, one night layover |
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377 |
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Beirut |
3 December 2011 |
957/958 |
Turnaround |
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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)
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