In January Emirates announced that it was restarting operations to Seattle, Dallas/Fort Worth, and San Francisco, in February it announced that its Athens-Newark route would return in June, two days ago it announced that it was restarting its Orlando route, and now the airline has confirmed that a favorite 5th freedom route is also coming back.

On 1 June 2021, Emirates will restart daily service between Milan Malpensa and New York JFK on the following schedule: EK205 MXP 16:10 – 19:00 JFK (Daily). EK206 JFK 22:20 – 12:15+1 day MXP (Daily). The route between Milan and New York JFK is actually just an extension of the airline’s route between Dubai and Milan.