Emirates is ready to launch daily widebody services to Berlin and Stuttgart, but the routes remain subject to approval from Germany’s Federal Ministry of Transport.
The carrier says the operation would add more than EUR 100 million a year in spending across operating costs, staff, airport charges and fuel, while extending one-stop access from both cities to 50 destinations. Emirates also cites more than 280 tonnes of weekly belly-hold cargo capacity on the Boeing 777-300ER, with freight potential in pharmaceuticals, machinery, electrical equipment and transport technology.
The airline is leaning on a 2012 German Aerospace Centre study that estimated daily services to both cities could generate close to 1,000 direct and indirect jobs. Approval would give Emirates a larger German footprint; refusal would leave the expansion on hold.