Emirates takes off with non-stop flights from Dubai to Montreal

Emirates operated its inaugural non-stop flight from Dubai to Montreal on Wednesday morning.

Flight EK 243 departed from Dubai International’s Terminal 3 at 3.45am, scheduled to land in Montreal 13.5 hours later.

The aircraft was carrying senior members of the Emirates team, including Adnan Kazim, chief commercial officer, and Salem Obaidalla, senior vice president of commercial operations for the Americas.

Montreal is Emirates’s second destination in Canada, after Toronto, to which the airline has been flying for 16 years. It’s also only the second city in the North American country to receive direct flights with Emirates.

The Boeing 777-300 aircraft servicing the route will have first class, business class and economy class cabins, with capacity for up to 354 passengers.