Emirates (Dubai) has announced the commencement of a daily service to Orlando, Florida as of September 1, 2015 and Bamako, Mali in October.  In November Bologna will be added. As well, Emirates plans to launch services to Panama City, beginning February 1, 2016 and will also operate four new flights between Dubai and Phuket from December 1, 2015.

The Panama city service will be the longest nonstop flight in the world (17 hours 35 minutes in the westbound direction) and will be Emirates’ first gateway destination in Central America.

Emirates customers can also connect seamlessly onto many destinations in the US, the Caribbean and South America through the airline’s codeshare partner JetBlue’s regional hub in Orlando, which serves 24 cities including San Juan in Puerto Rico; Bogota, Colombia and Nassau, The Bahamas.