Emirates Airline launched scheduled premium economy class services on Jan. 4 between Dubai (DXB) and London Heathrow (LHR) aboard its recently delivered Airbus A380.
An Air France crew that spent 17 hours on the ground with 497 passengers after a diversion to Atlantic Canada has lessons to apply in similar predicaments.
Emirates Airline has taken delivery of one Airbus A380 from the Airbus facility at Hamburg Finkenwerder and plans to add a further two of the type before the end of the month.
Emirates Airline will expand service to the UK over the coming weeks following the establishment of an air corridor between the UK and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Etihad Airways CEO Tony Douglas indicates carrier is looking to begin nonstop services between Israel and the UAE, admits airline is yet to decide if it will ever resume A380 flights.
Emirates Airline returned the Airbus A380 to its active fleet on July 15, operating the aircraft for the first time since March on routes from Dubai (DXB) to London Heathrow (LHR) and Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG).
Portuguese wetlease specialist Hi Fly has created extra cargo capacity by temporarily removing economy seats from the main deck of its Airbus A380 to meet higher demand for freight services amid the COVID-19 crisis.
Dubai-based Emirates is to reintroduce the Airbus A380 to its schedules but on June 24 halted its services to Pakistan, following the discovery of a large number of COVID-19-infected passengers had traveled on one of its flights.
Air France has definitively ended Airbus A380 operations, bringing forward an existing plan to phase out the superjumbo following the coronavirus outbreak.
Around 25% of the worldwide Airbus A380 fleet is in the process of being grounded as airlines cut their largest widebodies from services dealing with the fall-out of the coronavirus crisis.
Qantas will ground most of its Airbus A380 fleet for the next six months after announcing further deep cuts to international capacity citing a significant drop in demand caused by the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.
China Southern Airlines plans to fly Airbus A380s daily between Beijing Daxing International and London Heathrow airports beginning June 18, adding 43% to the seat capacity between the cities.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) expects to receive its third Airbus A380 in April, which will allow the carrier to move to an all-A380 service on the busy route between Tokyo Narita airport and Honolulu.
Early in 2019, Airbus’ salespeople had to accept a harsh reality—that the market for new A380s was too slow for production to be sustained beyond 2021.
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