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On 29 December 2016, the first Emirates Rolls-Royce-powered A380 landed at Dubai Airport. On 18 January 2018, Emirates signed a memorandum of understanding to acquire additional Airbus A380 aircraft. The commitment was for 20 A380s, with an option for 16 more; deliveries were to start in 2020. The aircraft were valued at US$16 billion. [46] [47]
The Airbus A380 is a very large wide-body airliner, developed and produced by Airbus. It is the world's largest passenger airliner and the only full-length double-deck jet airliner. Airbus studies started in 1988, and the project was announced in 1990 to challenge the dominance of the Boeing 747 in the long-haul market. The then-designated A3XX ...
On 29 January 2017, an Emirates Airbus A380 was diverted to RNZAF Base Ohakea due to a Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 blocking the main runway at Auckland International Airport because of a landing gear malfunction. The Emirates A380 was refuelled by RNZAF fuel tankers and departed for Auckland. This was the first time an A380 has landed at Ohakea.
Emirates is the largest Airbus A380 operator Singapore Airlines was the first operator of the Airbus A380 All Nippon Airways was the last new customer of the Airbus A380. The following is a list of airlines that currently or formally operate the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft.
In 2007, Emirates ordered 15 A380-800s, bringing the total ordered to 58. [39] According to Emirates, the aircraft would allow the airline to maximize its use of scarce takeoff and landing slots at crowded airports such as London Heathrow Airport. In 2005, the first A380-800 in full Emirates livery was displayed at the Dubai Airshow. [40]
Airspeed AS.48 - Night-fighter design abandoned after all work lost in bombing raid [19] [20] Airspeed AS.49 - Proposed development of Airspeed Queen Wasp to Specification T.24/40, not built; Airspeed AS.50 Queen Wasp; Airspeed AS.51 Horsa MkI; Airspeed AS.54 - Specification TX.3/43; Airspeed AS.55
An Emirates Airbus A380 suffered a "technical fault" when one of its tires ruptured. There were no injures reported, the airline said. Plane crazy: Emirates aircraft flies from Dubai to Australia ...
Currently, twenty-two Airbus A380 aircraft in the Emirates fleet have the new premium economy class cabin. These seats are also set to be retrofitted on the airline's older Boeing 777-300ERs and Airbus A380s as part of a retrofit program of US$2 billion that began at the end of 2022; by the end of the program, 67 Airbus A380s and 53 Boeing 777s ...