Autonomous system
AS6168 EK-GROUP-AS Emirates Airline
Unclassified APNIC
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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Interconnection
Peering at a glance
Internet exchanges
No exchange port on file. Many exchanges publish no participant list, so this is not proof of absence.
Transit providers
1 upstream, 0 downstream and 1 adjacent networks observed; most-used upstreams first.
| AS | Network | Paths seen |
|---|---|---|
| AS5384 | EMIRATES TELECOMMUNICATIONS GROUP COMPANY (ETISALAT GROUP) PJSC | 5 |
Exchange presence is recorded rather than inferred: the directory collected by Packet Clearing House (https://www.pch.net/ixp/data) on 2026-10-27, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. Transit is inferred from observed BGP paths, never declared by either party.
Address space
Summary
IPv4 4 prefixes · 1.28K addresses IPv6 0 prefixes
| Country | Name | Prefixes |
|---|---|---|
| EU | 4 |
Registry
Allocation record
- Registry
- APNIC
- Handle
AS6168- Registry name
- EK-GROUP-AS
- Registrant
- ERX-AS6168-MNT
- Registered
- 2002-08-21
- Last changed
- 2017-11-15
- Allocation
- allocated
Routing security
RPKI and IRR
- RPKI
- 100% valid · 5 valid, 0 with no ROA
- ROAs
- 6 authorising AS6168
- ASPA
- no ASPA record
- IRR
- 100% registered · 5 of 5 announcements
- Route objects
- 5 naming AS6168
Reputation
Classification and threat
Unclassified Not in the curated lists. Most of the ~80,000 allocated ASNs are not.
Spamhaus DROP
Not on ASN-DROP The network as a whole is not listed.
No DROP prefixes None of its announced space is on the DROP prefix list.
Spamhaus DROP ("Don't Route Or Peer") lists space and networks run by, or hijacked for, spam and cybercrime operations: 447 networks and 1,852 prefixes, as published 2026-10-27. A short, high-confidence list, so a match is worth taking seriously, and absence from it says little on its own.
FBI IC3
No IC3 indicators Nothing from the FBI IC3 feed.
IC3 threat data is alpha. Absence of an indicator is not evidence of good behaviour, only of absence from this one feed.
Elsewhere