Boston Logan Airport establishes new links to the Middle East by luring Emirates to start service

Boston Logan Airport's recent spree of attracting new international service continues as direct flights to Dubai are scheduled to come online in Mar-2014. Emirates Airline is to begin new service that will offer connections throughout its expanding network that covers the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Asia and Australasia.

The service caps off an interesting round of new and key international destinations from Boston. JAL during 2012 introduced direct flights to Tokyo Narita followed by Copa's launch of direct flights to Latin America's key connection point in Panama. Emirates' new service to Dubai will be followed by the introduction of flights to Istanbul by Turkish Airlines in May-2014.

Emirates' service to Boston further solidifies its leading-carrier status among the three big Gulf Airlines to the United States. But as has been the case for the last couple of years, its competitors Etihad and Qatar plan to catch up as Etihad has previously stated it plans to table new North American destinations and Qatar has listed Boston as a potential new market in the US.

Given the quickly changing competitive dynamics those three carriers are ushering into the global market place, there is sure to be an interesting response from Emirates' rivals to these latest moves in North America. Hopefully this will be in the marketplace rather than in the corridors of Congress.