Emirates Airlines: Analyzing Geography & Operations on Dubai-SFO Route

This presentation provides a detailed analysis of Emirates Airlines' Dubai to San Francisco route, focusing on the impact of physical geography, operational challenges, meteorological considerations, and geopolitical factors. It identifies the route as primarily business-oriented, influenced by the strong trade relations between Dubai and the USA. The presentation explores operational factors such as crew scheduling and flight time restrictions, alongside meteorological factors like earthquakes and severe storms in San Francisco. It justifies the selection of Dubai International Airport and San Francisco International Airport due to their high traffic and strategic importance for cargo shipments. Furthermore, it examines how specialist cargo and the choice of aircraft, specifically Airbus A220 and A380, affect the route's profitability. The study concludes by highlighting the multifaceted factors influencing the Dubai to San Francisco route, including geographical elements, operational challenges, and economic considerations.

AVIATION TRAVEL
GEOGRAPHY ASSESSMENT
1GROUP PRESENTATION
(EMIRATES AIRLINES)

TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Impact of physical geography on the Dubai to San Francisco route
• Identification of the route
• Operational factors may present a challenge for the operating route
• Meteorological factors that needs to be considered
• Reason for choosing the airport
• Geo political reasons for operating Dubai to San Francisco route
• Impact of specialist cargo on the profitability of the route
• How does the choice of aircraft affect the profitability of the route?
• Conclusion
• References

INTRODUCTION
• Geography can be defined with respect to two branches, namely physical geography and human geography.
• The current presentation is based on the physical geography. The physical geography can be explained as the study
which includes natural elements of the earth such as atmosphere , biosphere, hydrosphere and lastly, geosphere.
• The presentation is based on the study of Emirates Airlines and the selected route is Dubai to San Francisco.
• The presentation discuss about the impact of physical geography on the route, the challenges on that route , the
meteorological factors that needs to be considered and many more aspects in relation to the selected route.

IMPACT OF PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY ON THE DUBAI TO SAN FRANCISCO ROUTE
• There are several factors that falls under the category of physical geography that affects the
Dubai to San Francisco Route. They are:
• Occurrence of natural hazards
• The land of Dubai is mountainous and barren and has huge lands covered with desert areas.
• Therefore, natural hazards which includes haze, sand storms and dust storms are quite
common in that country (Brigden, 2018.).
• Climate
• The climate that exists within a particular route also affects the air travel. It has been
determined the hotter the climate the less the number of travellers.
• Airlines also restricts the number of passengers on the flight the climate between the
specified route is hot.

IDENTIFICATION OF THE ROUTE
• The Dubai to San Francisco is primarily a business route, though are a number
of great places for the tourists to visit.
• The San Francisco is one of the leading cities in the United States of America
and is a home to a number of budding and highly influential business leaders and
entrepreneurs (Sarjala, 2019.).
• Most of the travellers who travels on the route of Dubai to San Francisco travels
due to the business purpose.

OPERATIONAL FACTORS MAY PRESENT A CHALLENGE ON OPERATING THE
ROUTE
• There are several operational factors which can be considered as challenges for the
Emirates Airlines for operating on Dubai to San Francisco route. They are:
• Crew Scheduling
• It refers to the scheduling of crew members that will be available within a specified
route. However, the Emirates Airlines faces issues with the process of crew
scheduling for the route of Dubai to San Francisco. This is so, because there are
certain kind of legalities that needs to abided by the airlines before deciding
the crew members.
• The crew members that are going to present within the flight gets selected on
the basis of their qualifications, if they will be able to manage the complexities
within that particular aircraft or not.

CONTINUED
• Flight time restrictions
• The Airlines that operates on the route of Dubai to San Francisco needs to abide by the maximum duty hours of the workforce employed within their airlines.
• While selecting the crew for a specific flight operating on the route of Dubai to San Francisco, the Emirates Airlines also needs to take care of the duty hours of the cabin
crew.
• According to rules, the duty hours of no flight crew shall exceed a timeframe of :
• 55 hours within one week, however, it can be raised in case of unintentional delays.
• 95 hours within 2 continuous weeks (Li, and et.al 2022).
• 190 hours in 4 continuous weeks.
• 2000 hours in 12 consecutive weeks.

METEOROLOGICAL FACTORS THAT NEEDS TO BE CONSIDERED
• Most of the times, the climate of the San Francisco is Mediterranean including the
cool summers. However, there are a number of meteorological factors which
needs to be considered for the route of Dubai to San Francisco, they are:
• Earthquakes
• The land of San Francisco is highly prone to the likelihood of earthquakes with a
magnitude of 6.7 or higher (Tatli, and et.al 2022).
• Severe Storms and floods
• The land of San Francisco faces severe weather conditions which can give rise to
severe storms and floods within the geographical boundaries of San Francisco.

REASON FOR CHOOSING THE AIRPORT
• The chosen airports for the route of Dubai to San Francisco is Dubai International
Airport (DXB/OMDB) and San Francisco International Airport (SFO).
• The reasons behind choosing these two airports are mentioned below:
• The Dubai international airport (DXB/OMDB) is one of the world's busiest airport
in terms of international traffic.
• As this airport faces huge traffic, it is better for the Emirates Airlines as they can
easily find a number of international passengers who wants to travel to San
Francisco from Dubai.

GEO POLITICAL REASONS FOR OPERATING DUBAI TO SAN FRANSCISCO ROUTE
• It has been identified that Dubai and United States of America
has friendly trade relations and promotes the working with each
other for the purpose of carrying out business operations.
• The trade surplus of United States of America with respect to
Dubai was recorded to be $15.6 billion in the year 2019.
• The Dubai is one of the leading trading partners of USA with a
trade exchange of around $24.3 billions of trade(Hwang, Jasa,
and Martins, 2019).

IMPACT OF SPECIALIST CARGO ON THE PROFITABILITY OF THE DUBAI TO SAN
FRANCISCO ROUTE
• It has been determined that the Dubai International Airport(DXB/OMDB )
is one of the leading airports of Dubai that is used for the purpose of
exporting the products through specialist Cargo throughout the world.
• Similarly, the San Francisco International airport (SFO) also serves as a
platform for the Cargo shipment flights.

HOW DOES THE CHOICE OF AIRCRAFT AFFECT ROUTE PROFITABILITY?
• The choice of aircraft plays an essential role in enhancing the route profitability. Some of
the Air crafts with their benefits have been mentioned below:
• Airbus A220
• The Aircraft A220 is a spacious plane and has all the features that makes it a modern
aircraft. Because of the spaciousness, the airlines have the opportunity to book the flight
for a comparatively high number of customers in a single trip(Faury, Cheaitou, and
Givry, 2020. ).
• Airbus A380
• The use of airbus A380 is also profitable for the company as it is high in demand. It
provides its customers with 3 class configurations