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Dubai International Airport will close one of its two runways on 1st May for heavy maintenance and resurfacing work to take place.
The closure will last for 80 days, and will mean the airport’s carriers – in particular based airline Emirates – will have to reduce frequencies and make other changes in order to cope with the restrictions in place.
Emirates has also confirmed that it will ground 20 aircraft during the period, including all of its Airbus A340-500s, some A330-200s, and some Boeing 777s.
The airline recently relocated its dedicated freight operations to the new Dubai World Central Airport.
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