Dont know about the aforementioned, but this is probably the job the Dermot Mannion left Aer Lingus for. Always have been strong rumours that he never fully left Emirates, and that the EI job was work experience! Any thoughts anyone?

hi all, found this today, date: 14 May

"British Airways and Emirates will take delivery of an improved version of the Airbus A380 from 2012 offering a slightly better payload/range performance through a modest increase in maximum take-off weight."

could it mean that against rumours, they don't consider B 747-8i to be an option, but they remain by A380? or? :)

source: British Airways and Emirates will be first for new longer-range A380

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Quote:

"Dont know about the aforementioned, but this is probably the job the Dermot Mannion left Aer Lingus for. Always have been strong rumours that he never fully left Emirates, and that the EI job was work experience! Any thoughts anyone?"

With all due respect to him, I'd have to say that after the complete dog's breakfast he made of EI's DXB route, I'd have to wonder if EK would want him back. Good luck to him anyway, but the way that route was handled made me question whether he learned anything at EK.

Like Emirates overall.:ok: But sent wife on hols Monday. Due to arrive at Dubai in Terminal 3 according to her ticket. EK 372 to Bangkok designated as a A380.
Seat booked etc. On checking in at Manchester flight had reverted to a 777 so no seats available where I wanted.
Had printed out new map of terminal 3 to make things easy for her. On arrival in Dubai parked up at terminal 1 and apparently Emirates/Dubai staff not really interested in helping to find her way to Terminal 3.:ugh:
Please Emirates a bit of help for customers, it is your job after all.

A380 to Beijing
 

flight global are reporting that Beijing will become a new EK A380
destination from 01/08/2010.

The part of the report I which stuck out is the 519 config and not
489 or 487 whatever it is now.

I checked the EK site and seat guru but nothing coming up with 519
config although I didn't look too hard on the EK UK site.

With Manchester rumoured from September is this likely to be a
519 seat aircraft and I assume that this is still a three class config
as the last rumour was that the two class config was on hold.

Pete

I think its going to start at the beginning of August as the EK306 around 4am and returning around midnight. The DXB - PEK route is fairly busy with 5 different airlines operating it and the loads of the four that i`ve travelled on have always been very full. Emirates are, as you would expect the most expensive by a long way but why reduce the price if you are getting the loads!

380 configs
 

Found the answer on another forum re the 380 configs.

Apparently there are already three 517 seat aircraft operating
to Saudi and LHR amongst other shorter routes. They are in
14/76/427 config with the LD's flown on the longer flights such
as Australia and Toronto.

Three of the next five 380's will be HD's per the same source but no mention of which type is destined for Manchester. I would assume it
will the 517 seat aircraft and the same thread mentions a possible announcement in April.

Heathrow is down for double daily A380 by 1/7/2010.

Pete

Metro man. LHR-SYD nonstop operated once by QF B744 as a ferry flight. It appears LHR-PER or LHR-DRW nonstops may become a reality within 3-5 years. History suggests some punters prefer 'long' flights.

A380 Operational Reliability
 

The operational reliability of Emirates seven in service A380's is 90-95% which is not good enough said Tim Clark, Emirates Airlines President.
He also says 'And when we fix snags, we find new ones. I am trying to be kind to Airbus but they have to solve the problems'

Source: Airliner World - May 2010

A380
 

They are in it for the "long-haul" (pun intended) with the A380. Isn't there another 50 coming? :eek: Problems have to be ironed out pretty quickly.

I just wonder where EK will put all these A380s? ;) Looking forward to seeing it daily at MAN from September.........

Yes but didn't they just post a profit of +$900million for 2009 a hell of a lot more than others world wide?

It doesn't justify $11.5billion worth of investment but at least they're moving in the right direction.

Does anyone know if these are replacements thus keeping the fleet size the same or are they increasing the fleet?

Dubai itself may have been nearly broke a few months ago, but that was because of Dubai World and other investments of the emirate itself. It was bailed out by Abu Dhabi.

EK itself, while it saw a profit drop during the downturn, has swung solidly back to profit this year and expects an even larger profit next year. It can make this investment without recourse to its shareholder (which is just as well, really ...)

JetPhotos.Net Photo » A6-EDF (CN: 007) Emirates Airbus A380-861 by John Fitzpatrick

While the volume of the order is certainly a surprise (as well as the fact that it did not include an expected order for A333s to replace the ageing 332s), DXB is now a well established hub. DXB handles over 40m ppa and of course, the new airport is equipped to handle three times that amount (let alone the new T4 at DXB).

I think it will have a significant effect on Europe (particularly UK) - Aus/NZ travel, but its effect will be felt in other markets, such as SA, India and SE Asia. The next question is, how will the other "enfants terribles" - QR and EY - react to this? Can we expect more large orders from them?

A total of 90 A380's in service, wow!! Where will they fly them to? There will be a lot of airports worldwide that will need to spend money upgrading their facilitits in order to handle these aircraft.

I guess by the time they are in service then most of the B777's will have been replaced. Are EK working towards a true Airbus only fleet? Time will tell.

Good luck to them , I hope they can be crewed, recruitment will have their work cut out for the forseeable future.

LAX & IAH services to double
 

Emirates W10 Operation Changes/overview as of 13AUG10: A380 to Hong Kong AIRLINE ROUTE

Significant changes here with the ULR's to Houston & LAX doubling
in frequency.

According to one source one Sydney service has been dropped to use the 77L to make this possible.

This is flight EK414 which is fairly new and connects outbound with the UK afternoon departures (was still showing yesterday as bookable).

I assume the more popular routing for UK pax is from the UK evening services connecting with the non-stop 380.

JFK is confirmed as returning to a 380 as well.

Pete

Emirates & Qatar Company Objectives
 

Hello.

I hope this is in the right section!

I have been assigned a task to research into, and discuss the company strategies/ objectives of a chosen airline (plus more). I have decided to select Emirates or Qatar as my chosen organisation as there is so much to include further down the line - however I cannot find any sort of corporate strategies, company objectives, goals which they are targeting etc, on their website.

There is generally a section on companies websites about their mission statements etc, Virgin Atlantic has a fantastic one for example!

If anybody has any advice on how to gather this sort of information I would hugely appreciate it!

Thanks in advance,

AF :)

Emirates Future?
 

Just wanted some opinions on Emirates future:

They have gone from a 5 star airline to a 4 star airline.
Their service is crap!
Their seating is crap! 343 on 777.
Customer service is virtually non existant.
Their airfares are not as cheap as they used to be.
Cabin crew and pilots are over worked and fatigued.
The culture is crap!

So can anyone tell me why people still fly with Emirates and if they keep this up
what does the future hold?

Haven't flown with them for 2 years as I felt their service had dteriorated. Am about toleave for the airport and will fly with them again today, firstly because I need to get to Dubai and actually the price was fine nd secondly wanted to try the A380 from Manchester.

I will be going on to KUL on the777 so have the chnce to see if they hve improved.

So will give ou my revisd opinion at the end of the week.

What im suprised at is that Emirates havent launched a DXB-DUB service! Etihad are making a killing on their AUH-DUB route which now operates 2x daily.

It’s a low cost subsidised airline for the masses