Emirates Cuts Massive 16% Of June Flights: See The 47 Most Affected Routes

Each week, airlines from around the world submit schedule changes to Cirium Diio, OAG, and other platforms. In the latest update, Emirates slashed 16% of flights planned for June. Given that it’s nearly the end of May, that is a substantial reduction in very little time. It is on top of what had already been removed for that summer month.

Emirates now has 14% fewer services than in June 2025. Fellow Gulf carrier Qatar Airways has 19% fewer flights year-over-year. In complete contrast, Etihad Airways has scheduled 8% more activity. It will be fascinating to see how the so-called Middle East Big Three airlines change July schedules.

Emirates Removes 16% Of June Flights

Last week, Emirates had scheduled 7,116 departures from its Dubai International Airport (DXB) hub in June (double for both ways). In the latest update, 6,007 outbound services are now available. The daily offering has fallen from 237 departures to just 200. That’s a substantial drop of 16%, which is nearly one in six of the services previously scheduled.

37 fewer daily departures are now available, which might not seem like a drastic reduction in itself. But given Emirates’ exclusively widebody fleet of Airbus A350-900s, A380s, Boeing 777-200LRs, and 777-300ERs, the picture is quite different for seats for sale. 480,000 departing seats have been cut in a week, which is a drop of 16,000 for each day in June.

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47 Airports Have 17% Or Fewer Services In June

Recall that Emirates has slashed 16% of flights in June. This could be because increases planned for that month have been shelved or that the frequencies available in May will be scaled back. Schedule analysis shows that 47 airports — 34% of the airline’s total passenger network — will have a bigger drop than that in the examined month. They are shown above and listed in the following table.

Two routes will have zero Emirates flights in June; they’ll be covered in the following section. The most impacted still-operational link is the short hop from DXB to Kuwait, with more than three-quarters of the planned flights removed. Its offering has fallen from the previously scheduled four to five daily services to just one. But here’s why context is critical. Currently, Emirates has no flights to Kuwait, as they remain suspended. Thus, while most of the services won’t go ahead as there’d be far too much capacity right now, the airline still plans to operate daily — more than at present.

The list even includes London Heathrow (LHR), which is Emirates’ most-served destination. Five daily departures will now exist, down from six daily flights in May — the same frequency that was also planned for next month. EK31 to the UK’s busiest airport and EK32 back to the Middle East have been removed.

Emirates’ two other London airports are also affected. The fourth daily service to London Gatwick Airport (LGW) has been postponed until July at the earliest (three daily services will remain available in June). The second daily flight to London Stansted Airport (STN) has also been pushed back to July at least (it’ll remain daily). Expect more changes.

Continent Or Region	Route From DXB (% Change In June Flights: This Week Vs. Last Week)^
Africa	Antananarivo* (-60%), Dar es Salaam (-17%), Johannesburg (-25%), Luanda (-41%), Mauritius (-33%), Nairobi (-33%), Seychelles** (-30%)
Asia-Pacific	Adelaide (-20%), Auckland (-27%), Bangkok (-18%), Beijing Capital (-50%), Brisbane (-50%), Ho Chi Minh City (-50%), Hong Kong (-20%), Karachi (-20%), Kuala Lumpur (-33%), Malé (-50%), Melbourne (-20%), Peshawar (-43%), Singapore (-25%), Sialkot (-29%), Sydney (-20%), Taipei (-20%)
Europe	Amsterdam (-48%), Athens (-18%), Barcelona (-33%), Birmingham (-50%), Bologna (-30%), Düsseldorf (-50%), Geneva (-20%), Hamburg (-20%), LGW (-25%), LHR (-17%), Lyon (-17%), Milan (-33%), Moscow Domodedovo (-33%), Newcastle (-30%), St. Petersburg (-53%), STN (-50%), Vienna (-50%)
Middle East	Amman (-50%), Bahrain (-36%), Kuwait (-76%), Muscat (-21%)
North America	Orlando (-32%)
South America	Buenos Aires** (-30%), Rio de Janeiro (-30%)
	^ Reductions of 17% or more only; rounded. * Served via the Seychelles. ** Served via Rio

Two Routes Will Now Have Zero Flights In June

Two routes — DXB to Algiers and the tag-on from Malé to Colombo and vice versa — remain suspended. Regular flights to Algiers were last available on February 28, which was when the war broke out between the US/Israel and Iran. Oddly, Flightradar24 indicates that two round-trip services also existed in mid-March. Since then, no flights have been available.

The plan called for this route, which covers 2,742 nautical miles (5,078 km), to return on June 2. A five-weekly service on 354-seat, first-class-equipped, four class Boeing 777-300ERs was scheduled. But no more. For now, flights to the Algerian capital are due to recommence on July 1, but that could easily be pushed back again.

Then there’s the Maldives. This route runs DXB-Malé-Colombo-Malé-DXB, with fifth freedom rights available. The latest information is that the first-class-equipped, three-class, 360-seat 777-300ER-operated service will return on July 1. It’ll coexist with three daily standalone flights from DXB to both Colombo and Malé. It remains to be seen if the tag-on service does take off again then.

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