Passengers travelling to Melbourne, Australia will now have another direct flight option with Emirates announcing that flights EK408 and EK409 will begin operating as non-stop services from Dubai from October 30th, 2016.

Operated by an Emirates B777-300ER aircraft, EK408 will depart from Dubai at 03:00 and arrive in Melbourne at 23:20.

The return flight, EK409, will leave Melbourne at 06:00 and land in Dubai at 13:05.

The current service from Dubai to Melbourne operates via Kuala Lumpur in both directions.

These flight changes will save passengers approximately two and half hours in travel time in each direction when travelling between Dubai and Melbourne on these services.