Autonomous system
AS6168 EK-GROUP-AS Emirates Airline
Unclassified RIPE
IPv4 addresses
1.28K
4 prefixes
IPv6 prefixes
0
counted as prefixes, not addresses
Countries
1
mostly EU
Flagged prefixes
0
none
Summary
Emirates Airline
enterprise legacy
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.
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Address space
Summary
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EU | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- RIPE
- Handle
AS6168- Registry name
- EK-GROUP-AS
- Registrant
- ERX-AS6168-MNT
- Registered
- 2002-08-21
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Status
- active
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
Threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere