AS6168 — EK-GROUP-AS Emirates Airline

AS6168 announces 4 IPv4 prefixes covering 1,280 addresses and 0 IPv6 prefixes.

About this network

EK-GROUP-AS is the autonomous system of Emirates Airline, the Dubai-based carrier and its parent Emirates Group. EK is the airline's IATA code.

What it's used for

• Corporate network space for the airline group: internal systems, booking and operations infrastructure, and its public-facing services.
• A small routed footprint of about five /24s, mostly carved from UAE provider space, which is what an enterprise multi-homing inside its home market tends to look like.

Notable

• This is an airline's corporate AS, not an ISP or hosting network. The addresses back a single company's own operations.
• The RIPE object is maintained under an ERX-era maintainer, so the ASN passed through the historical ARIN-to-RIPE transfer of legacy resources rather than being freshly allocated in Europe.

Interesting

• Large airlines are among the few non-tech enterprises that reliably run their own AS. Reservation, crew and flight-ops systems are unusually intolerant of network outages, which makes multi-homing worth the operational cost.

This description is AI-generated, best-effort context — not authoritative, and provided without any guarantee of accuracy.

Announced prefixes

• 151.253.180.0/23
• 194.170.246.0/24
• 195.229.47.0/24
• 213.42.110.0/24

Upstream networks

• AS5384 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC

Adjacent networks

• AS5384 EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC

Routing security

• RPKI: 5 valid, 0 invalid and 0 not-found announcements; 6 ROAs.
• ASPA: none published.
• IRR: 100% of announcements registered; 5 route objects.
• Listed in as-sets: AS-BTELEKOM, AS-EMIX, AS-ITXBR.