Ek Order of 90 A380s ‘Not Enough,’ Clark Says
Emirates, the world’s biggest airline by international traffic, said the 90 Airbus SAS A380 superjumbos it’s buying won’t be sufficient to meet the carrier’s projected demand.
The aircraft “are well spoken for and frankly, the way things are going for us at the moment, the 90 certainly won’t be enough,” President Tim Clark said today in a phone interview. “Demand for our services seems to be continuing to grow apace. We’re moving forward very robustly.”
The carrier, already the biggest customer for Airbus’s 517- seat plane, has expanded its traffic sixfold in the last decade by connecting international passengers through its Dubai hub. Emirates is also the biggest operator of Boeing Co.’s 777 long- range airliner.
Emirates has 12 Airbus A380s in its fleet, with another three to go into service by November. Deliveries will restart in September 2011, with the carrier receiving the remaining planes through November 2017.
half of the jobs will very soon get outsourced to China
EK and other airlines MUST buy more A380s. It is not only a superior plane, but we need the jobs in Europe.
Lol UAE is sinking into the desert. Qatar rules!
They can borrow the planes Qatar Airways bought.. NDIA is never going to be complete and they don't have a place to keep those planes.
empty planes because no-one likes the 12-18hr stopovers in dubai.
This is what you expect from Emirates..
They will fly Empty 380s in coming years...