Emirates to start flying Orlando-Dubai sector on September 1

UAE based Emirates will make Orlando its tenth destination in the United States, launching nonstop service to its Dubai hub on September 1, reports said.

Emirates will fly one daily round-trip flight on the route using 266-seat Boeing 777-200LR aircraft. The planes are configured with eight first-class "suites," 42 lie-flat business-class seats and 216 seats in coach.

Emirates will be the first airline to offer regularly scheduled passenger service between Orlando to the Persian Gulf region. Orlando, of course, is one of the top tourist destinations for foreign visitors to the United States.

"This is a landmark new route for Orlando that for the first time offers our customers non-stop service to the high-growth Middle East region with convenient connections to India, China, Africa, and Southeast Asia," Phil Brown, Executive Director of the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority that runs Orlando International Airport, says in a statement.

Emirates president Tim Clark lauded Orlando as a destination, calling it "one of the world's premier leisure and conference destinations, a dynamic business center and a destination which Emirates has long wished to serve."