The Emirates company announced yesterday that on July 2 it will recover one of its most unique air bets: the flight between Dubai and Mexico City with an intermediate stopover in Barcelona. This is so because the Benito Juárez International Airport is 2,250 meters above sea level, a situation that makes the air there less dense and affects the operation of aircraft, especially in the case of long-haul flights. These large aircraft cannot go to the maximum of their capacity, hence the need for an intermediate stopover that Emirates decided to be the Catalan capital.
After almost two years of preparation in which Aeromexico was very belligerent because it is an airline of a third state operating between Spain and Mexico, the line was released in December 2019 thanks to the granting of the fifth freedom, an exceptional right whose The application has to be justified by the executives of the North American and Spanish countries and their civil aviation departments.
Emirates opened the flight between Dubai and Mexico City with a stopover in El Prat in December 2019
Who also returns to Barcelona on July 2 is Aeroméxico, to fly the same line, although in this case going back and forth to El Prat from its hub in terminal 2 of the Mexico City airport. This airline, which is 49% owned by the American Delta Airlines, was expected to resume operations in El Prat in June, although it finally decided to delay its return by a month, something that will make its re-run coincide with that of the Dubai company.
In this way, Barcelona recovers twice its flights to Mexico, which will be operated by Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft in the American case and with the Boeing 777-200LR model by the Arab operator, which flies on its Dubai-Barcelona-Dubai flights with the 300 model of the 777 and also with the A380, which are recovering as demand increases.
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In addition to the passenger operation, the return of Mexican flights is positive in terms of cargo, as both aircraft have generous cargo hold space and, in fact, Emirates has continued to operate a series of exclusively cargo flights between the capitals. of Catalonia and Mexico for a good part of 2020 carrying all kinds of products, with a special weight from the health and pharmaceutical sector.
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