The likes of Emirates and Etihad are expanding globally but they are now paying more attention closer to home, too.
Emirates has announced daily Boeing 777-200LR operations from Dubai to Panama City, starting next February. The new service will become the world’s longest non-stop flight at 17 hours, 35 minutes westbound. The late Maurice Flanagan, who set up Emirates with Tim Clark 30 years ago, claimed that long-range Boeing 777-200LRs enabled the United Arab Emirates’ international airline to fly non-stop to anywhere except the south Pacific’s Galapagos Islands. (PHOTO Alex Steffler)
