Emirates to fly daily cargo-only passenger flights to 7 Indian cities from March 31

March 30, 2020: On Sunday, Emirates SkyCargo announced its updated freighter frequencies which include daily cargo-only passenger flights to Mumbai, Delhi, Bengaluru, Kochi, Hyderabad, Chennai and Trivandrum from their hub in Dubai International Airport (DXB).

Meanwhile, Mumbai and Ahmedabad will also receive weekly twice full freighters of SkyCargo routed as Dubai World Central (DWC) - Shanghai Pudong International Airport (PVG) - Mumbai International Airport (BOM) - Dubai World Central (DWC) and Dubai World Central (DWC) – Ahmadabad (AMD) - Dubai World Central (DWC) respectively.

This comes after Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) permitted foreign airlines to use their passenger aircraft as freighters to Indian destinations. Emirates will be deploying its Boeing 777 passenger flights to India with 30 tonnes to cargo capacity in the belly space.