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Aug 03, 2021 (newstodate): Emirates has celebrated its 10th anniversary of passenger services on the route connecting Dubai and Copenhagen.
   The opening flight was performed on August 1, 2011, but the route was actually in the planning long before that; Emirates first mulled plans to launch flights on the route from October 2005, later setting October 3, 2006, as the launch date with four weekly A330-200 flights, increasing to daily operations from October 29, 2006.  
   These plans were, however, repeatedly shelved for various reasons, including shortage of capacity.
   After its debut on March 3, 2013, at Copenhagen Airport as a weekly en-route technical stop at the airport on the new route between Dubai and Chicago, Emirates SkyCargo also made Copenhagen Airport its Scandinavian freighter hub from July 1, 2014, operating 11 weekly freighter rotations at Copenhagen by May 2015.  
   Back then, the airport also saw an increase in Emirates SkyCargo en-route calls on flights between Dubai and the USA, in periods bringing the total of monthly flights up to 55.
   Today, Emirates SkyCargo operates two weekly Boeing 777-300ER passenger belly freighters on Fridays and Sundays between Copenhagen and Dubai, each carrying more than 40 tonnes or 150 cb.m. of cargo.
   During the last 10 years, Emirates claims to have lifted some 105,000 tonnes of cargo out of Denmark, with one-third of the Danish exports generated in Western Denmark and trucked from Billund Airport, with pharma shipments weighing heavily together with other temperature-sensitive commodities and ships spares.
   Handling Emirates at Copenhagen Airport since January 2021 is Menzies, replacing Aviator that had been handling Emirates since the airline made its first flights at Copenhagen Airport.
   In Scandinavia, Scanpartners serves as GSSA for Emirates SkyCargo, while WFS serves as its cargo handling provider at Copenhagen Airport since November 5, 2019.