Emirates announced Tuesday that it will suspend flights to nine U.S. airports due to “operational concerns associated with the planned deployment of 5G mobile network services in the U.S.,” something that some carriers have warned will lead to “catastrophic” effects.
According to a statement from the Emirati airline, flights to Boston, Chicago, Dallas Fort Worth, Houston, Miami, Newark, Orlando, San Francisco and Seattle airports will be suspended from January 19 until further notice.
It also indicated that customers holding tickets with final destination to any of the aforementioned airports “will not be accepted at the point of origin”.
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However, Emirates assured that flights to New York, Los Angeles and Washington DC “continue to operate as scheduled.”
“We are working closely with aircraft manufacturers and relevant authorities to alleviate operational concerns, and we look forward to resuming our U.S. services as soon as possible,” the company said in the note.
Yesterday, major U.S. airlines asked the U.S. government to block the transmission of 5G signals in a 3.2-kilometer radius around airport runways before the technology goes live tomorrow, January 19.
The companies warned that the new 3.7 to 3.8 gigahertz (GHz) frequency bands, the so-called C-band spectrum, which will give networks greater geographic reach and faster signals, may cause many aircraft safety systems to become “unusable.”
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