Job Purpose

Flight Operations is the heartbeat of Emirates aviation excellence, bringing together our talented pilots and dedicated support team to ensure a seamless flying experience. Our mission is to operate Emirates aircraft with the utmost safety and efficiency by safeguarding flight safety, building and nurturing talent, navigating regulations, crafting exceptional flight plans, analyzing performance, evaluating airports, and mastering navigation. At Flight Operations, we're dedicated to making every flight a safe, efficient, and well-orchestrated journey.

As a Licensed Flight Dispatcher with Emirates, you will be responsible for exercising operational control and supervision of Emirates flights in accordance with GCAA regulations, ensuring safety and regulatory compliance. You will also serve as a critical link between flight crews, ground operations, and third-party service providers to support efficient and coordinated flight operations.



Job Outline:

• Analyze and determine routes and flight altitudes for each Emirates flight, based on economical (such as
• Overflight Permission charges), meteorological, safety, legal and comrequirements. This includes, analyzing and negotiating 'User Preferred Routes' on a tactical basis with the relevant Air Traffic Control (ATC) organizations. Calculate and manage fuel requirements for each Emirates flight, based on economical, meteorological and safety standards.
• Ensure selection of take-off- destination- enroute- fuel- and Extended Twin Operations (ETOPS) alternate
• airports for each Emirates flight as per legal and company requirements. Conduct ETOPS diversion and ETP strategy analysis for each ETOPS flight as per air law and company requirements.
• Calculate take-off and landing performance as well as regulated weights for each Emirates flight as per legal requirements. Quantify effect on commercial payload and liaise with Ops Control, EK Skycargo and
• load control. This includes the assessment and calculation of performance penalties due to meteorological
• and technical reasons. To minimize commercial impact on Emirates flights. Based on all above, to optimize
• commercial payload capability for each Emirates flight by adapting route, speed and altitude parameters
• within the legal framework.
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• Collate and sign the Flight Release as per legal and company requirements for each Emirates flight. Prepare and file ATC flight plan for each Emirates flight and ensure that Flight Release, Computer Flight Plan and all briefing documentation is provided to the operating crew in time for briefing at Dubai and all outstations.
• Manage and avoid potential delays by negotiating airport and airway slots with the respective government
• agencies worldwide.
• Monitor flights until safe touchdown and ensure that these remain inside a safe envelope in regards to weather, technical problems, airport availability, traffic flow and security threats.
• If a flight is in danger of deviating from said safe envelope, to safeguard the operation by developing an alternative plan of action. Communicate and liaise with air traffic control, engineering, station staff and flight
• crew in order to recover the situation. Support flight crew during decision making or trouble shooting processes.
• Support Dispatch Duty Manager during disruption events.
• Periodically perform quality checks on General Handling Agent (GHA) briefing and dispatch services at outstations as part of Route Familiarization Flights.