Originally Posted by
NERD
Take it with a grain of salt, but on airlinedorks.net they are saying ATL-DXB on the chopping block.
I'm in Dubai right now, just talked to the Leather shop guy, he heard the same thing from a F/A who heard it from Richard Anderson at a meeting.
All the extra flights Emirates has added to every major US city and the extra 400 miles each way due to avoiding all the ISIS No Fly zones isn't helping the yields, no doubt.
In March it only operates 5 days a week but the rumor was, that was so they could add the wifi mods.