Airline
Emirates EK
United Arab Emirates · No global alliance · founded 1985
Codes
- IATA designator
- EK
- ICAO designator
- UAE
- Home country
- United Arab Emirates
- Alliance
- No global alliance
The two-character IATA designator EK is what appears in a flight number — EK 123 — and on your itinerary. The three-letter ICAO code UAE is used by air traffic control and in flight plans. A third, numeric code forms the first three digits of every e-ticket issued on this airline's stock.
Hubs
Where the airline concentrates its operations. The first is its primary base.
The airline you book may not be the one you fly
A flight number beginning EK means Emirates sold the ticket. On a codeshare, the aircraft and crew may belong to a different airline entirely — look for "operated by" on the itinerary. You check in with the operating carrier, in their terminal, usually under their baggage rules.
No global alliance
Emirates is not a member of Star Alliance, Oneworld or SkyTeam, and instead works through bilateral partnerships. That affects lounge access and mileage earning, and means through-checked baggage is not a given.
Check with the airline
Baggage allowances, fare rules, schedules and check-in requirements come from the airline and change. Nothing on this page is a schedule or a booking.
How this data is maintained
Airline codes, hubs and alliance membership here are curated by hand rather than taken from a dataset, because no public-domain source covers them with the licence this site needs. They are corrected on report.