Emirates Airlines has just recently announced its plans to launch direct services to Tokyo, Japan’s capital city and one of the world’s foremost economic centers. Tokyo will now serve as Emirate Airlines’ 102nd international destination, following the recent launch of operations to Durban and Luanda in October of 2009. Now with the introduction of flights to Tokyo, Emirates will be able to offer two nonstop services between Japan and Dubai, as the airline already operates daily services to Osaka.
Emirates will fly nonstop to Tokyo five times a week on every Monday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday starting March 28, 210. [...]

It now seems that Emirates Airlines could be a possible bargaining chip in Dubai’s attempt to get over its mountain of debt. Economists at the French Bank, Societe Generale, have said that Dubai might have to offer Emirates as collateral in order to ensure a bailout for neighbor Abu Dhabi.
They go on to suggest that this could happen by merging with Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways. Vivek Tawadey, head of credit portfolio strategy at BNP Paribas, said that it could be Emirates Airlines on the table. After all, this is one of Dubai’s crown jewels, because it has a very strong [...]

Budget Rent-a car is one of the world’s largest and most successful car and van hire companies and now looks to extend its operation in the Middle East following the announcement of a range of reward programs for frequent flyers to the area.
Passengers that belong to Frequent Flyer programs that travel with Air Etihad, Kuwait Airways, Emirates, Oman and Qatar Air will soon be able to access a range of offers including discounts, double air mileage and even free miles on selected destinations thanks to a new partnership with Budget.
Among the special offers is a new deal with Qatar Airways [...]

Emirates Airlines has launched their very own A380 double-decker aircraft to serve flights between Dubai and London. This plane is the 3rd out of 58 aircrafts that Emirates has on order. Even though the A380 is bigger, having over 40% more passenger capacity, it is less than half as noisy as the Boeing 747 and takes 20% less fuel to operate. Starting yesterday, the aircraft will be operating flights to London Heathrow Airport, departing Dubai at 7:45am and arriving at 11:35am.
Tim Clark, the President of Emirates Airlines, said that they are happy to be bringing innovative comforts [...]

Emirates Airlines had a net profit of about £50 million during the first half of the financial year, ending September 30th. This result is 88% less than their nearly £418 million in net profits during the same period last financial year, which shows the impact of this year’s record high fuel prices. The fuel bill of the airline doubled to about £1.6 billion during that time, which is around £301 million more than what they had anticipated. The company also reported that operating revenue increased 31% to £3.9 million.
HH Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum, the Chief Executive [...]

Emirates Airlines has put phones on one of their Boeing 777-300s, which will enable passengers to make a phone call with their mobile, as well as send messages, during their flight. Patrick Brannelly, the Vice President of Passenger Communications and Visual Services for Emirates, said that travelers who book on their Boeing 777, which now has in-flight services for mobile phones, will be allowed to communicate with their business associates, friends, or family while they travel.
The aircraft that has this new system is operated on many of the routes that Emirates Airlines has, including their services to Australia and [...]

Emirates Airlines is planning to cut their magazines, entertainment guides, and newspapers on flights in order to save 1 ton of weight on every one of their Airbus A380 super jumbo flights. This move is aimed to help aid in the reduction of fuel emissions and at saving money on expenses. The printed materials of the airline include its radio and television guides, Portfolio business magazines that the business- and first-class passengers use, and Open Skies in-flight magazine. For compensation of the lacking magazines, the airline plans to give their passengers similar content to the magazines in their in-flight entertainment [...]

Emirates Airlines has announced that they plan to showcase their new, double-decker A380 on exclusive familiarization flights for Los Angeles and San Francisco. These familiarization flights will take place right after the inaugural Dubai to New York flight, which will take place on the first of August. Invited guests from Los Angeles and San Francisco will get the chance to take a look at the Airbus A380 before its 3-time a week Dubai to New York service begins. The service from Emirates will mark the first time that any airline has operated the A380 on commercial flights within the United [...]

Air travelers will get the chance to experience the state-of-the-art A380 of Emirates Airlines for their first time come August 1st when the launch of the aircraft will service the Dubai to New York JFK route.  This is going to be a non-stop, 14-hour flight that will also be The Americas’ first commercial service of the A380.
Emirates’ A380s are powered with engines by Engine Alliance’s GP7200 and can fly as high as 12,000 kilometer while it is full of passengers.  They also provide better petrol economy for each passenger kilometer than most of the hybrid cars that are made.
On August [...]

Airbus has been called on by Air France to make a bigger version of the new A-380 super jumbo-jet, which can already hold a maximum of 555 passengers.  The airline chief executive of Franco-Dutch has argued that many carriers would jump at the chance of being able to buy an even bigger long-haul plane, because it would let the firms save money on the operating costs.  According to the chief executive’s calculations, this new extended version of the A-380 will hold a maximum of 656 people.  The CEO of Air France pointed out the fact that if the new model [...]