Emirates will be introducing a fourth daily flight between Dubai and Johannesburg from October 26, lifting to seven the number of daily flights to South Africa.

The addition boosts Emirates’ total number of scheduled flights between the two countries to 49 a week, reaffirming its position as one of the largest flight operators to South Africa.

In addition to Johannesburg, Emirates also services the popular cities of Cape Town and Durban. Linking South Africa with Emir-ates’ global network, the seven daily flights demonstrate the importance of the South African market for the airline.

Emirates and South African Airways will extend their code-share partnership to include the brand-new service between Dubai and Johannesburg – currently South African Airways code-shares on all Emirates flights to and from South Africa.

The expansion of the code-share agreement reflects the successful and long-standing partnership between the two carriers.

The Emirates experience across all cabins includes meals prepared by gourmet chefs, award-winning service from the airline’s multi-national cabin crew, as well as Ice, the airline’s in-flight entertainment system with almost 1,800 channels including films, television programmes, games, audio books and music.

The airline’s footprint in 2014 will grow and include launches into Chicago (August 5), Oslo (September 2), Brussels (September 5) and Budapest (October 27) after Taipei and Boston, launched earlier this year.

Emirates serves 143 destin-ations around the globe with a young, technologically-advanced fleet of over 220 wide-bodied aircraft equipped with industry-leading features.

It also has the largest fleet of Airbus A380s, with the 50th A380 added to the fleet this month.

Emirates operates daily scheduled flights from Malta to Dubai using a Boeing 777 aircraft.