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Tai's Travels - Year 3

This page records the third (and current) year of Tai's travels with Emirates Airline, starting from 1 December 2008

. The most recent flight is shown first. The map is of countries visited on a layover or a turnaround flight.

Links
Tai's Travel's Year One
Tai's Blog - adventures of an EK jet-setter. Many more pictures.
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Dubai Airport - the airport's own web site - good arrival/departure information


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Flight
No.

New
City No.

Destination

Date

Flight Numbers

Layover Nights

Notes and Pictures

             

157

 

Nice

31 January- 1 February 2009

77/78

2 days away - 1 night layover

 

156

 

Bangkok

27-28 January 2009

372/373

2 days away - 1 night layover

 

155

 

Birmingham

21-22 January 2009

39/40

3 nights away - 2 nights layover

 

154

66

Calcutta

18- 19 January 2009

572/573

Short - 14 hour - layover

 

153

 

Karachi

16 January

606/607

 

 

152

 

Munich

11-13  January 2009

51/52

2 nights away - 1 night layover

 

151

 

Doha

10 January 2009

843/844

 

 

150

 

Karachi

8 January 2009

606/607

 

 

149

 

Bangalore

6 January 2009

564/565

Overnight  - arly morning - long turn

 

148

65

Hamburg

2-3 January 2009

59/60

2 days away - 1 night layover

 

147

 

Delhi

30 December 2008

516/517

 

 

146

64

Guangzhou

26-28 December 2008

362/3

2 nights away - 1 night layover

 

145

 

Bahrain

24 December 2008

835/836

Overnight turnaround

 

144

 

Mumbai

21 December 2008

506/507

 

 

143

 

Beirut

19 December 2008

957/958

 

 

142

 

Delhi

15 December 2008

510/511

 

 

141

 

Bangkok

11-12 December 2008

372/373

2 days away - 1 night layover

Swapped in return for days off.

140   London Gatwick 3-4 December 208 15/16 2 days away - 1 night layover Called out from standby

139

 

Hyderabad

1 December 2008

528/529

Turnaround

BKK closure meant loss of SIN/BNE flight and instead on airport standby.

Emirates has 90 passenger destinations (excluding Dubai) now all served from Emirates Terminal 3 at Dubai. Destinations in red have not yet been visited.

49 visited in year 1 in Blue.
14 visited in year 2 in Green.
Cities visited in year 3 in Brown
25 still to visit in Red

91 in total !

Indian Subcontinent [17 destinations]: Ahmedabad, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Cochin, Colombo, Delhi, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Male, Peshawar, Thiruvananthapuram, Kolkatta and Kozhikode.

East Asia and Australasia [18 destinations]: Auckland, Bangkok, Beijing, Brisbane, Christchurch, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Jakarta, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, Melbourne, Nagoya, Osaka, Perth, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Sydney.

Europe [22 destinations]: Athens, Birmingham, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Glasgow, Hamburg, Istanbul, Larnaca, London Gatwick, London Heathrow, Malta, Manchester, Milan, Moscow, Munich, Newcastle, Nice, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Zurich and Venice.

GCC/Middle East [13 destinations]: Amman, Bahrain, Beirut, Damascus, Dhahran, Doha, Jeddah, Kuwait, Muscat, Riyadh, Sana’a and Tehran.

Africa [16 destinations]: Abidjan, Accra, Addis Ababa, Cairo, Cape Town, Casablanca, Dar es Salaam, Entebbe, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lagos, Mauritius, Nairobi, Seychelles, Tripoli and Tunis.

Americas [5 destinations]: Houston, Los Angeles, New York, Sao Paulo, San Francisco and Toronto.