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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 has had no narrow-body aircraft in its mainline fleet since 1995. In July 2014, Emirates finalized an order for 150 Boeing 777X aircraft (this number was later reduced, see below), consisting of 35 777-8s and 115 777-9s, [98] and was expected to become the launch operator for the 777X in mid-2020. [99]
In the end of 2003, Emirates ordered 71 aircraft at a cost of $19 billion. In the financial year ending March 2003, Emirates carried 8.5 million passengers, an increase of 26%, and the airline posted an increase in profits of 94 per cent to Dhs907 million from Dhs468 million from the previous year.
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, with 116 aircraft in their fleet.
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]
The Emirates hub is the largest airline hub in the Middle East; Emirates handles 51% of all passenger traffic and accounts for approximately 42% of all aircraft movements at the airport. [ 15 ] [ 16 ] Dubai Airport is also the base for low-cost carrier flydubai which handles 13% of passenger traffic and 25% of aircraft movements at DXB. [ 17 ]
Aircraft do not necessarily follow the great-circle distance, but may opt for a longer route due to weather, traffic, to utilise a jet stream, or to refuel. Commercial flights are often categorized into long-, medium- or short-haul by commercial airlines based on flight length, although there is no international standard definition.
Versions of the A330 have a range of 7,400 to 13,430 kilometres (4,000 to 7,250 nautical miles), and can accommodate up to 335 passengers in a two-class layout, or carry 70 tonnes (150,000 pounds) of cargo. The origin of the A330 dates to the 1970s as one of several conceived derivatives of Airbus's first airliner, the A300.