Emirates is already the largest purchaser of A380's, what's another dozen or two A380's to them? Emirates will buy Boeing 777-300ER's instead of A340-600's and replace its A340-500's with 777-200LR's.
Airbus should have replaced the A330 and A340 lines with a clean sheet A350 design. Instead, they are wasting huge sums of money on a reworked obsolete 35 year old fuselage cross-section. The 787 will seat 9 abreast comfortably using seats the same size as those used on a 747-400. The A350 will be very uncomfortable for any tall man sitting in a window seat in a 9-abreast configuration due to the curvature of the fuselage. Airlines specifying 8-abreast seating will have more room for each passenger than on the A300/A330/A340/A350 fuselage cross-section.
That's music to my ears. What you say makes so much sense.
Wonder if any of their assembly problems have to do with all the rioting in France?
"what's another dozen or two A380's to them?"
uhh, a lot, if it means they will just sit around collecting sand unless their is the demand for 600 to 800 people getting on these planes to go somewhere.
Then again, they are a state run airline, and profitability doesn't have to matter right now for them.
I heard in Dubai, the taxis are rolls royces.