‘Emirates will stop flying its two Airbus A380 aircraft on the New York JFK route from April, having only started the service just eight months ago. The aircraft instead will be redeployed this summer to Toronto and Bangkok.’
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By: steve rowell - 20th March 2009 at 04:31
Why?
They already are in desert!
That seems to be where most of the Airlines park their surplus aircraft these days …where the humidity is only around eight percent…the aircraft are fully maintained and the windows are all sealed and the engines are drained and filled with pickling oil to preseve the seals …rather than have them taking up room at already overcrowded airports
By: David Kerr - 19th March 2009 at 12:24
It’s going to be a tough few years for Emirates, its true that right now there aren’t enough routes from DXB for the A380 to fly profitably. But if they can hold on and keep their fleet (and lets face it, with financial backing like they have, they’re not going under any time soon.) then I reckon they will enjoy the boom even more than most airlines.
Seeing that their current JFK run is an A380 and a 77W, then going down to double 77W is not going to be too much of a drop in capacity. On the other hand though, they are currently only allowed to fly to Toronto 3 times a week as Etihad have the other 3 available frequencies; they are currently trying to get the bilateral relaxed but in the mean time with very high loads (reportedly 90%+) on a 77W, it makes sense for them to bump up capacity where it’s currently warranted.
They are scheduled to get the next batch of A380s (6 or so I think) over the course of the next 18 months, having slightly tweaked deliveries, by which times it’s been forecast that the global economy should be back on track (but I do note that the present slump in it’s manner wasn’t exactly trumpeted by them though!).
It is also going to be interesting to find out when each of the 3 configurations are being delivered as I’ve not seen any schedule for the HD version – if MAN can maintain the current 80% load on double daily 77WHD then there is tentatively another destination to send the A380HD to within the next 12 months or so, especially if they pick up the traffic that would otherwise have used SQ en route to Australasia seeing that SQ is reducing frequency to MAN from May.
By: chornedsnorkack - 19th March 2009 at 11:41
Straight to the Mojave desert for a holiday in the sun!!!
Why?
They already are in desert!
By: Arabella-Cox - 19th March 2009 at 11:07
It’s going to be a tough few years for Emirates, its true that right now there aren’t enough routes from DXB for the A380 to fly profitably. But if they can hold on and keep their fleet (and lets face it, with financial backing like they have, they’re not going under any time soon.) then I reckon they will enjoy the boom even more than most airlines.
By: steve rowell - 19th March 2009 at 02:55
For EKs sake i hope the outbound traffic from JFK to DXB improves soon because with there order book of the 380s, they will have to fly them somewhere! 😎
Straight to the Mojave desert for a holiday in the sun!!!
By: KabirT - 18th March 2009 at 19:11
For EKs sake i hope the outbound traffic from JFK to DXB improves soon because with there order book of the 380s, they will have to fly them somewhere! 😎
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