EK 747-8
 

Not sure this will ever happen but I've been proven wrong before!

Boeing Peddles 747-8 to Emirates as Alternative to Airbus A380 - Bloomberg

I wish:):):)

I'm with you on that one, Puff.

yeah, dual rated for the same salary...

The dripstone cave in the desert - funny!

Jeez! The dugong guzzling too much fuel? What a surprise, didn't see that one coming, after all the rhetoric from Timmy and other fans.

Well, put under its wing whatever donkey you want, there will still be two too many, as with the struts, and it will remain overweight by design.
But replacing a four-legged dinosaur with another one?
Same, same, but different ......

As long as a new design performs only equally to one that has 15+ years, you will keep on begging for less guzzling donkeys.
Imagine the 350 or 77X performing only about equally to the 333 or 77W, the foul mouthing they would get!

The 380 can perform well, yes, but i guess it needs the subsidised price from the EU citicens to achieve that.
Is Boeing able and prepared to match that?

The dugong is ****e. You will never see it take any of the 777 flying, and it will never do the west coast as it hasn't got the legs.


The don

glofish

They're all at it, buddy. I'm a bit surprised that anyone has to break this to you:

Boeing: Biggest state subsidy in U.S. history - Strange Bedfellows ? Politics News

You have no idea of how much the 380 makes on a trip, in fact you have no idea of how much the 777 (which has 40 fewer premium seats on it) that you fly makes per trip. What is your opinion based on? Simply that the 380 is big and has 4 engines? Seems a bit thin...

My part, regarding the article that started this thread:

http://www.flightglobal.com/news/art...rtures-399923/

Seems like only a 380-sized aeroplane makes sense with 4 engines...can't imagine the 748 can make much difference versus the 773-ER

i know, i know, you guys had convinced me earlier, the dugong is way better than the T7 .........

But why is Timmy shouting for better performance then?
Why is the performance of a new, fantastic design only "comparable" to a almost 15 year old one, when it should blow it out of the air by a minimum of 20%?
How can it be cheaper on purchase than the smaller, older one if not subsidised?
Why are at any time more or less 10% of the fleet over at maintenance, as for the older one you will rarely see 5%?
Why is the competition not running down Airbus' doors for dugongs, if it is that much better?

I hear all the good things, but these answers are looming, and now this article.

And finally: Let a poor John Deere driver gloat a bit! After all we are losing some nice flights to it, now even Mumbai and Delhi. ;)

I love your edit glofish!

Not sure the 380 is better than the 777 or vice-versa, think they might each have their niches though...

I love this bit though:

Not sure if that might be oversimplifying the matter! 748 has something like a 12T defecit in payload capacity...

Listen all you bean counter wannabees.
Tim buys and airplane. Sends you an email to learn to fly it. You do your best not to scratch it and spend as much time with your family as possible. Who cares what it looks like or if it flies on cooking oil or not. End of story.

All this crab about donkeys:ugh: and dugong:rolleyes: is just as tiring to read as the OM/D

Good night Gents

What he said ^^

Yep...its gotten old, stale, boring and stupid to read....kind of like the Ford vs. GM fight the "good ol" rednecks have in the states, when watching Nascar in the trailer park with a 6 pack of Bud...while the wife is shopping at Wal Mart.

"Yee Haw"...

..... then don't read it gentlemen!

I like reading such articles and writing about it and i like winding up dugong drivers!

If you however dislike reading it that much, just don't do it.
But don't read it, write back and then make condescending remarks about people who read it and write about it!

Simple.

No 747-8s for EK according to TC. See the end of this article :-
June 2, 2014

Emirates said on Monday it hoped to achieve progress soon on its call to upgrade the Airbus A380 with new engines.

Emirates has expressed interest in applying the lessons of other Airbus re-engining projects - the 'neo' or new engine option - to the four-engined superjumbo.

"There is a distinct possibility that if the neo is built it will give a 10-12 percent performance improvement, so it is definitely worth having and we are hoping to move on that pretty soon," chief executive Tim Clark told reporters.

Such a project would involve an upgraded engine from Rolls-Royce, as well as some weight reduction and better aerodynamics on the aircraft, he said on the sidelines of the IATA airline industry meeting in Doha.

Engine Alliance, a joint venture between General Electric and Pratt & Whitney supplies the engines for the A380s operated by Emirates but is not expected to take part in any engine upgrade as its shareholders focus on other projects.

Emirates increased its order for A380s in November, adding 50 aircraft to bring the total on order to 140. The first 25 are due to be delivered in 2016 and 2017, Clark said.

The second batch will be delivered after 2020 and could be fitted with upgraded Rolls-Royce engines, if that project goes ahead, he added. Emirates will however take delivery even if there is no decision to upgrade the double-decker jet.

"If they don’t produce it we will take it under the old version. There is nothing out there that resembles what the A380 can do."

Emirates is not interested in Boeing's 467-seat 747-8, Clark said, despite a report of talks between Boeing and the airline.

(Reuters)

End of story Dungaree Dude:(

glofish criticising people for being condescending, that's funny right there!

It's bad enough having to listen to infantile drivel on the flight deck, without it being here as well.

So why do you tools troll through pprune?
You know what this website is about.

Because there is the occasional nugget of useful information.
But you're right, I often ask myself the same question.