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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]