Emirates Doubles Airbus A380 Flights On This Major Long-Haul Route: See Flights Now

Published Aug 17, 2026, 7:00 AM EDT James lives and breathes route development. Educated in Air Transport Management at Loughborough University and Cranfield University, James has a PhD in airline strategy. James was Market Opportunity Analyst at London Luton Airport and Chief Analyst at anna.aero. He taught airline strategy and economics to undergraduate and postgraduate students for five years and has worked closely with multiple carriers on route and market intelligence projects. He is based near London, UK. Everyone knows that Emirates is overwhelmingly the world's largest Airbus A380 operator. Ch-aviation shows that it has 116 superjumbos in multiple configurations. Despite various suspended routes and other changes, the Gulf carrier will operate 64% of the world's A380 services this year. The double-decker is deployed from Dubai International Airport (DXB) to 53 destinations globally. The list includes a one-off service to Jakarta, with the type chartered by various European football clubs earlier this month as part of a pre-season tour. In an unrelated development, Emirates has now confirmed that it'll double A380 flights to another Indonesian destination. Emirates Doubles A380 Services To Bali/Denpasar Credit: Flickr Some context is needed. While Emirates currently deploys the type twice-daily to Bali's Ngurah Rai International Airport (DPS), the frequency will halve to a daily offering in late October. The plan was for a daily operation to exist through the upcoming northern aviation winter and through next summer. As summer 2027 is so far away, what was scheduled was likely to have been only the temporary or placeholder schedule. The schedule has now been firmed up. Emirates' update to Cirium Diio on the weekend shows that it'll now operate the A380 two times daily from March 28, 2027, onwards. That is when northern carriers switch to summer schedules based on IATA slot seasons. This is a notable development, as the airline only flew the type twice daily briefly in 2024 and not at all in 2025. The ongoing war in Iran meant that the equipment did not operate at that frequency for all the current summer season. Of course, the latest plan depends on the war and other factors. A380 Frequency DXB To DPS; Local Times* DPS To DXB; Local Times** Daily 3:25 AM-4:35 PM 12:35 AM-5:35 AM (replacing the 777-300ER) Daily 9:10 AM-10:25 PM (replacing the 777-300ER) 7:45 PM-12:50 AM+1 * Known as of August 17, and subject to change ** Known as of August 17, and subject to change Loading map… Drag to explore Emirates To DPS The airline has flown to the ever-popular Bali for more than 11 years. The first flight took place in June 2015, with the Boeing Boeing 777-300ER deployed until June 2023. That was when the A380 first appeared, with the two types operating simultaneously through July 2026. That was when the superjumbo took over the route completely, with the Triple Seven returning in October and operating alongside the double-decker through March 2027. Then it'll be back to an all-A380 operation. Booking data for the 12 months to July 2026 shows that more than 530,000 round-trip passengers connected in DXB to reach DPS. Predictably, the majority of the traffic (more than three-quarters) flew to/from Europe. The Middle East was second (9%), followed by North America (7%) and Africa (6%). Other areas accounted for the remainder of the volume. The most popular so-called sixth freedom city level markets were London to/from DPS via DXB. Emirates captured approximately a fifth of the large London-DPS-London market. The carrier transported the second-highest number of passengers, after Singapore Airlines. The rest of Emirates' top 15 markets were Amsterdam, Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow, Warsaw, Manchester, Düsseldorf, Jeddah, Istanbul, Miami, Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, and Copenhagen. The New Configuration Will Be Used On Both Flights To DPS Credit: Flickr Emirates currently has nine different A380 layouts. Most of them have 14 seats in first class and 76 seats in business. The primary differences relate to whether premium economy is available, with this class to be rolled out on all frames in due course, along with the number of seats in economy. In some cases, the total capacity difference is miniscule. Then there are the aircraft that are far less premium. Until recently, this only concerned the two-class, 615-seaters. This configuration has no first class seats and only 58 in business, nearly a quarter fewer than is available on more premium layouts. A whopping 557 seats in economy are available, which is more than the total capacity of the other layouts. Things are changing. Earlier this year, the 569-seater rolled out, which will eventually replace the 615-seater. In 2027, all A380 flights to DPS will be on the 569-seater, which will become Emirates' and the world's new highest-capacity superjumbo. This layout has 76 seats in business (the same as the others) and 56 seats in premium economy (which all other A380 layouts will eventually have). These changes result from a big drop in economy capacity: from 557 seats to 'just' 437. Interestingly, the highest-capacity configuration with first class has only a slightly smaller economy cabin.