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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.
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 ]
Emirates started offering round-the-world services from autumn 1993, after a partnership was established with US Airways. [5] It previously had co-operation agreements with Cyprus Airways. [5] By 1995, the airline expanded the fleet to six Airbus A300s and eight Airbus A310s and built the network up to cover 37 destinations in 30 countries.
By the winter of 1991, the Emirates fleet was grounded for several days, as the liberation of Kuwait begun. Operations resumed weeks later. The airline saw the arrival of another Airbus A300-600R, taking its fleet to nine, Emirates ordered seven Boeing 777s, with an option for seven more, in a US$645.5 million deal in the same year. As the ...
Emirates is the largest airline operating at the airport, with an all-wide-body fleet of over 200 Airbus and Boeing aircraft based at Dubai, providing scheduled services to the Middle East, Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia and New Zealand.
Aviation and logistics is an important sector of Dubai's economy, Emirates Airlines and Dubai Airports Company account for 26% of the country's GDP (2011). Dubai has an "open skies" policy that allows any airlines to open service there.
OSLO (Reuters) -A tram derailed and crashed into a store in central Oslo on Tuesday, injuring the driver and at least three other people, Norwegian police said. The blue tram of the Oslo transport ...
The site was first used as a cricket ground in 1857, when the Manchester Cricket Club moved onto the meadows of the de Trafford estate. [9] Despite the construction of a large pavilion (for the amateurs—the professionals used a shed at the opposite end of the ground), Old Trafford's first years were rocky: accessible only along a footpath from the railway station, the ground was situated out ...