If you live in the New York area, getting to Greece or the United Arab Emirates just got easier. Starting March 12th, Emirates will commence service to Newark, new Jersey, which is their 12th US destination. This addition will compliment the four flights from JFK, three nonstops and one via Milan.
An Emirates 777-300ER landing at London Heathrow.
Newark to Dubai will not be operated nonstop, rather, Emirates will be commencing a new fifth-freedom route via Athens, Greece. This is similar in set-up to the Dubai-Milan-JFK fifth freedom route. What is a fifth freedom you ask? Put simply, it allows airlines to carry passengers from one’s own country to a second country, and from that country to a third country. Freedoms are really cool, and this youtube video is a great primer on them.
Newark to Dubai, via Athens. Map courtesy of gcmap.com
This new route will be operated by Emirates’ 777-300ER, which has a few different seating variations, but expect 8 first class seats, 42 business class seats, and roughly 350 economy seats. Per airlineroute.net, the schedule is as follows:
EK209 DXB1050 – 1530ATH1730 – 2200EWR 77W D
EK210 EWR2345 – 1600+1ATH1800+1 – 2340+1DXB 77W D
As airlineroute.net also points out, this is the first time New York and Athens have been connected with year-round nonstop since 2012. Currently United and Delta operate summer seasonal service from Newark and JFK, respectively. Sadly, you won’t get to try out the only shower in the sky, as that feature is only found on Emirates’ A380s.
(READ MORE: Â Emirates A380 First Class review Dubai to New York)
It’ll be interesting to see how United and Delta respond, as Delta has been an outspoke critic of Emirates’ expansion to the United States.
Are you excited to see another nonstop option open up in the US-Greece market? Let us know below!
Header image courtesy of Adrian Pingstone.
This site is part of an affiliate sales network and receives compensation for sending traffic to partner sites, such as thepointsguy.com. This may impact how and where links appear on this site. Responses are not provided or commissioned by the bank advertiser. Some or all of the card offers that appear on the website are from advertisers and that compensation may impact on how and where card products appear on the site. Any opinions expressed in this post are my own, and have not been reviewed, approved, or endorsed by my advertising partners and I do not include all card companies, or all available card offers. Terms apply to American Express benefits and offers and other offers and benefits listed on this page. Enrollment may be required for select American Express benefits and offers. Visit americanexpress.com to learn more. Other links on this page may also pay me a commission - as always, thanks for your support if you use them
User Generated Content Disclosure: Points With a Crew encourages constructive discussions, comments, and questions. Responses are not provided by or commissioned by any bank advertisers. These responses have not been reviewed, approved, or endorsed by the bank advertiser. It is not the responsibility of the bank advertiser to respond to comments.
Dan Miller travels with his wife and 6 (SIX!) children. He loves to help families travel for free / cheap, especially larger families. If you are looking for help, drop him an email at 
This is certainly great for the consumer flyer. This is a badly needed route.
I agree, especially that it is year round 🙂 I checked some ticket prices, pretty reasonable actually.
This is cool, I might try it.
Clicked on this link just to ask that you spare us the click-bait titles. If you don’t have enough respect for me, your reader, to tell me WHO has a 50% promo code (that was pitiful) or WHICH city Emirates is adding, then I don’t respect you enough to click and give you some revenue. Well, I guess, I guess this one click, but no more!