Emirates ramps up operations to London Gatwick with a third daily A380 service
Emirates, the world’s largest international airline, has ramped up its operations from Gatwick Airport with the addition of a third daily A380 flight. The airline continues to scale up its UK operations to meet sustained demand ahead of the holiday rush. The additional frequency will offer enhanced capacity with more than 1,000 seats from Gatwick […]
Emirates to fly A380 to Bangkok
Emirates has announced that its flagship A380 service will return to Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport from November 28. The daily A380 flights will operate as EK372/373, adding much-needed capacity and frequency to its flights to Bangkok, in response to the uptick in travel demand that the airline is witnessing. The deployment of the double-decker aircraft will […]
Emirates expands A380 fleet
Emirates will receive three more A380 aircraft from Airbus this year with its last unit on order scheduled to join its fleet in November, bringing forward the original delivery timeline from June 2022. These deliveries will bring Emirates’ total fleet of A380s to 118 units in November, including six aircraft equipped with Premium Economy seats […]
Emirates welcomes its first of three A380s
Emirates has welcomed MSN A6-EVL, its 116th A380 as the first of three A380s to join its fleet in 2020. The airline is also scheduled to receive two more A380 aircraft later this month, one of which will feature its long-awaited signature Premium Economy product. The first aircraft arrived in Dubai in the early hours […]
A380 funds: ‘part-out’ of returned aircraft offers investors some relief as Emirates retires planes
Emirates Airline is retiring its fleet of A380 passenger jets, for which the Dubai-based carrier was Airbus’ biggest customer. Gloomy as the news is for investors in closed-end A380 funds, they can still expect to make a return on their investment. Recent developments, with Emirates following the lead of Air France and Singapore Airlines in […]
ANA unveils Japan’s first Airbus A380
All Nippon Airways (ANA) has received its first Airbus A380 has rolled out of the Airbus Paintshop in Hamburg, Germany. The new aircarft is Japan’s first Airbus A380 and sports a Hawaiian green sea turtle, known as “Honu” in the Hawaiian language, which symbolises good luck and prosperity. Each of ANA’s three Airbus A380s will […]
Airbus: nearly 35,000 aircraft required in the next 20 years
The latest Airbus’ Global Market Forecast 2017-2036 has found 34,170 passenger and 730 freighter aircraft worth a combined total of $5.3 trillion will be needed in the next 20 years. Over 70 per cent of new units are single aisle with 60 per cent for growth and 40 per cent for replacement of less fuel efficient […]
Qatar keeps improving and innovating with 21% growth
Qatar Airways Cargo has seen freight tonne kilometres increase by 21 per cent so far in 2016 and is working on continuing to improve and innovate services for customers, chief cargo officer Ulrich Ogiermann tells Air Cargo Week (ACW) staff writer James Muir. It has seen the launch of a number of new services, both […]
A380 schedule tweaks made by Emirates
Emirates is to deploy a third daily Airbus A380 from Dubai International Airport to Manchester Airport and has also adjusted its A380 schedule into Birmingham Airport from Dubai. As of 1 January 2017 into Manchester the carrier the third A380 will replace a Boeing 777-300ER. An A380 has a payload of around eight tonnes of cargo. […]
FIA16: Airbus forecasts 33,000 new aircraft needed over 20 years
In the next 20 years (2016-2035) there will be a need for over 33,000 new aircraft above 100 seats (32,425 passenger & 645 freighters greater than 10 tonnes) worth $5.2 trillion, according to Airbus’ Global Market Forecast. Released at the Farnborough International Airshow today, Airbus forecasts in the widebody market a trend towards higher capacity aircraft and […]