It’s been announced that as of 1st September, Emirates is to use A380s on one of it’s daily services. Manchester Evening News article
A comment: “Emirates Airline president Tim Clark said: “Manchester has been one of the strongest performers in our growing network of regional gateways, not only in the UK but globally.”
By: David Kerr - 31st March 2010 at 11:27
They can still do 3 daily flights. Remember the smallest equipment they have is the A330. It would be possible for them to do another increase in available capacity by going for an A330, A380 and 773 scenario with the 773 also having a 1st class cabin with Capacities roughly 285+517+354 respectively which would be further 400 seats a day (assuming they use the A330 as a 2 class aircraft). But I’m sure that any based line engineers wouldn’t welcome 3 aircaft types to service.
And in case anyone’s wondering, I believe they have no fewer than 7 seating configurations for the 773s: 4 are 3-class ranging from 354 seats to 380 seats and 3 are 2-class ranging from 427 seats to 442 seats.
By: sammypetter - 31st March 2010 at 10:53
It is now confirmed that Emirates will launch A380 service from DXB to MAN starting September 1. The A380 will operate flights EK17 and EK18. Presumably there’s now a demand for x3 flights a day on the route and so EK is cleverly increasing capacity by using the A380 which will avoid the need to operate x3 B777-300s a day.
By: Grey Area - 30th March 2010 at 21:59
The word on the streets is that the 517 seat configuration will operate into MAN.
By: A330 Lover - 30th March 2010 at 21:28
Be great to see the a380 out of manchester 😀
By: David Kerr - 30th March 2010 at 19:39
They’ve currently got 2 varieties of 3 class A380s – one with 489 seats and 1 with 517 seats. The 2 class variety has yet to be delivered but I hope that there will be sufficient F and J sales out of MAN so it will not result in that aircraft usurping the 3 class aircraft, as that will put paid to getting a 3rd daily flight for about 3 years minimum.
By: ThreeSpool - 30th March 2010 at 19:35
Great news for Manchester.
Does Emirates have two-class configured A380s? Or will they be sending a three-class configured aircraft?
By: heslop01 - 30th March 2010 at 19:32
Wow …. that’s amazing! 😀
By: pierrepjc - 30th March 2010 at 12:38
Most excellent news, who will be next?
Paul
By: Raymy - 30th March 2010 at 12:08
A busy day on the southside mounds that day, good news
By: *ALLIANCE - 30th March 2010 at 11:43
EK17/EK18. I really want to get on the inaugural flight for this service.
By: PMN - 30th March 2010 at 11:27
It will be great to see the A380 operating in the UK outside Heathrow. Excellent news! 🙂
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