Dubai’s flagship carrier, Emirates, will resume its passenger flights to Nigeria from Dec. 05.
The daily flights will connect the airline to the Africa’s largest populated country’s two major cities namely capital Abuja and business city Lagos.
Emirates will operate to Abuja with EK 785 and 786. EK 785 will depart Dubai at 11:00 arriving in Abuja at 15:40. The return flight, EK 786, will take off from Abuja at 19:00, arriving in Dubai at 04:35hrs the next day.
To Lagos, the carrier will operate flight EK 783 that will depart Dubai at 10:30, arriving in Lagos at 15:40. The return flight EK 784 will depart Lagos at 18:10, arriving in Dubai at 04:15 the next day.
Travelers from Nigeria bound for Dubai must produce a negative Covid-19 PCR test certificate for a test taken no more than 72 hours before departure.
Once in the Emirati city, the passengers will also then have to take another Covid-19 PCR test on arrival at Dubai International Airport, free of charge.