EK moves a JFK service to EWR

[Quickstatus]

Emirates adds Dubai – Newark nonstop service from June 2018

As usual the headline is not the news but lower down the article.

EK stops flying to JFK instead going to EWR with the 777 after recent near disaster with EK207


Recently EK also stopped trans Tasman flights

PIlot shortage within A380 group? Or nothing to see here except EK management trying to reduce risk by removing JFK visual approach?

 

[Must...Fly!]

I think you'll find this is more related to scheduling and trying to pick up more traffic from EWR (hello United...).

Their three daily services in to JFK (two direct, one via MXP) remain A380s.

 

[Pleb Status]

I think the thread title needs to be seriously modified....

 

[Quickstatus]

Yes only EK207/208 cancelled

 

[juddles]

I think the thread title needs to be seriously modified....

Yes, I saw the thread title and was astounded - then reading I understood the far less amazing reality.

Shame on you Quickstatus

 

[Strategic Aviation]

PIlot shortage within A380 group?

Uh Oh Emirates Cutting Pilot Staffing On Some Longhaul Flights Due To Pilot Shortage - One Mile at a Time

Emirates has a pilot shortage at the moment, which is causing the airline to park planes at Dubai World Central and also to cut routes. Emirates pilots are leaving the airline to work at other airlines (especially in China) that offer more attractive compensation packages. There’s a global pilot shortage at the moment, and other airlines offer more pay and allow commuter contracts, while Emirates requires all of their pilots to live in Dubai.

Emirates claims they have quite a few cadet pilots in the pipeline and that this pilot shortage will be solved within a few months, though it sure seems to me like that’s not the case. Unless they change something, they’re going to keep losing pilots. Rather than trying to make things better for pilots, Emirates has just done something that has really ticked off a lot of pilots.

Emirates is reducing staffing (and thereby rest) for pilots on some ultra longhaul flights. As reported by pilots on PPRuNe, as of July 1, 2018, Emirates is reducing the pilot staffing on select ultra longhaul flights from four pilots to three pilots. Specifically, flights between Dubai and Boston, New York, Sydney, Melbourne, Rio de Janeiro, and Sao Paulo, will go from having four pilots to having three pilots.

Some pilots are in disbelief at this move. Emirates pilots already consistently report fatigue issues, given how many hours they fly, their short layovers, and the fact that they often have flights departing in the middle of the night. For example, Dubai to New York is blocked at 14 hours, so pilots could have to work that flight in the middle of the night, then have only a 24 hour layover in New York (where they’re spending a lot of time in traffic), and then have to fly back, all with reduced rest nowadays. Previously each pilot may have gotten six hours of rest on the flight, while that’s now reduced to four hours (or less).

 

[Quickstatus]

Time to avoid that airline I think

 

[moa999]

They still have annual hour limits that are pretty similar to most other airlines afaik.

And with long sectors like those mentioned, I'd expect it means EK pilots fly less sectors than many others.

 

[serfty]

I think the thread title ["EK stops flying to JFK"] needs to be seriously modified....

Yes only EK207/208 cancelled

Yes, I saw the thread title and was astounded - then reading I understood the far less amazing reality.
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Fixed it for you ...