Golf carrier Emirates Airlines will reactivate flights between London and Dubai on Tuesday. These are currently on hold as the UK government is joining the landing of passenger flights that took off in the United Arab Emirates prohibited. It will stay that way, because Emirates will fly to the British capital on a ferry, i.e. without passengers, and then back to Dubai with travelers on board.

The carrier also chooses the same approach on the Manchester route. The flight ban is not circumvented, because the UK expressly bans passenger flights that have taken off in the UAE. The opposite direction, e.g. London Heathrow-Dubai, is allowed. The decision to undertake such long ferry flights may also be related to the fact that the golf carrier is very strong in the freight business and Belly Cargo is a not insignificant source of income on these routes.

All other Emirates routes between Dubai and the United Kingdom will continue to be operated as pure freight connections, unless they are completely paused. Long-haul Boeing 777 jets will initially be used on one-way flights from London. Most recently Emirates flew on this route, which is one of the most profitable in the route network, occasionally again with the Airbus A380.