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A row of Emirates Boeing 777s at Dubai International Airport. Emirates [a] is one of the two flag carrier airlines of the United Arab Emirates (the other being Etihad Airways) and is currently the largest airline in the Middle East. The airline's fleet is composed of three wide-bodied aircraft families, the Airbus A350, Airbus A380, and Boeing 777.
The most successful variant is the 777-300ER with 799 aircraft delivered and over 844 orders to date. [7] Emirates operates the largest 777 fleet with 148 aircraft. [7] FedEx Express operates the largest fleet of the 777F cargo aircraft. As of April 2024, 2,268 Boeing 777s, of all variants, have been ordered and 1,729 have been delivered. [8]
Emirates operates a mixed fleet of Airbus and Boeing wide-body aircraft and is one of the few airlines to operate an all-wide-body aircraft fleet (excluding Emirates Executive). [9] As of August 2024 [update] , Emirates is the world's largest Airbus A380 operator with 123 aircraft in service. [ 10 ]
The following is a list of current and former operators of the Airbus A380, the world's largest passenger aircraft. Emirates , one of the two flag carriers of the United Arab Emirates , is the largest operator as of December 2024 [update] , with 116 aircraft in their fleet.
First South American operator Aerostan: 2 2 AeroUnion: 7 3 Afriqiyah Airways: 2 Air Afrique: 4 4 Ceased operations in 2002 Air Algérie: 1 2 A300B1 leased from Trans European Airways A300B4 leased from Lufthansa: Air Atlanta Icelandic: 9 Air France: 11 14 Launch customer of the A300 Air Hong Kong: 1 13 5 Air India: 5 Air Inter: 16 6 Merged into ...
The A330 was developed in parallel with the A340, which shared many common airframe components, but differed in number of engines. Both airliners incorporated fly-by-wire flight control technology, first introduced on an Airbus aircraft with the A320 , as well as the A320's six-display glass cockpit . [ 1 ]
Emirates United Arab Emirates: 1 Deliveries began in November 2024 Ethiopian Airlines Ethiopia: 20 2 22 A350-1000 orders were converted from A350-900. First operator in Africa. Etihad Airways United Arab Emirates: 5
The practice of government ownership of airlines, particularly flag carrier airlines, occurs in many countries. The following is a list of both airlines currently owned by a government, and former government-owned airlines.