Emirates : EK : UAE

Emirates is to take delivery of all 90 of its [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] A380s by 2017, confirming that the additional 32 ordered today will not be replacements for earlier aircraft.
The Dubai-based carrier's president, Tim Clark, also says that the jets will be fitted with Engine Alliance [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] powerplants, in line with the 58 A380s it previously ordered.
Speaking during the ILA Berlin Air Show, Emirates chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said the jets would all be delivered by 2017.
"Our latest commitement signals Emirates' confidence in the growth to come in a thriving aviation sector," he adds.
The airline took its first [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] in 2008 and says it would not retire these early airframes before 2020. None of the additional 32 jets would be needed for replacement, it states.
Airbus is working to ramp-up production of the type, after battling to smooth the workflow. Chief executive Tom Enders says the first available production slot is in 2015.

The curious case of 90 A380s

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When John Leahy, Airbus chief operating officer customers, said in May that he would sell [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], he knew the ace up his sleeve was coming from his most enthusiastic superjumbo customer. With 58 already on the order books, 10 of which are already in service, Emirates [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] with the addition of 32 more announced this week at the ILA air show in Berlin.
While I will leave the virtue of an $11.5 billion aircraft purchase (at list prices) to others, the order itself deserves a bit of added perspective. A quick look at the math yields some interesting figures. With 489-seat and 517-seat configurations chosen for it superjumbos, the average A380 entering Emirates' fleet will generally have 503 seats on average. That's 45,270 seats worth of capacity set to be added to the airline's fleet between 2008 and 2017. 45,270 seats is the equivalent of 330 Boeing 737-700s or just ten fewer than Southwest operates in its fleet.
With all that capacity set to come into its fleet over the next seven years along with the 70 A350-900s and -1000s the carrier has on order, the Emirates 2017 fleet promises to look almost nothing like it does today. By time it receives its last of its latest order, the A380 will outnumber any other type in the airline's fleet.

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Just as a point of comparison, JAL, which at one point was the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], took delivery of 108 of the jumbos between April 1970 and October 2004. Those arrivals were a mix of nearly every model of 747 built, including the -100, -100SR, -200B, -200F, -300, -300SR, -400, -400D, -400SF and -400F.
Which leads me to a side thought: Did Emirates just quietly launch the high density A380-900 and A380F? Aircraft purchasing contracts allow customers model flexibility, especially ones that cover a delivery spread of nearly a decade.
Airbus was quite pleased with growing the A380 order book to 234, a 16% increase in total orders. Yet, there's an inherent risk to having nearly 40% of your backlog with just one customer. When the threat of a debt default by Dubai spooked the entire global economy last November, the rapidly growing carrier was arguably one of [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
The mind-boggling growth numbers from the Middle East make a compelling case for buying so many aircraft, though the airline industry has a destructive tendency to chase the up-cycle, adding capacity at an unsustainable rate, only to force painful production cuts back through to airframers once demand drops. Then again, Middle East traffic growth never went negative during the recession.
With RPK ( [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]) - the measurement of actual passenger traffic - set to double in the next 20 years, makes you wonder whether or not Emirates is hoping to carry it all themselves.

New A380 deal part of long-term strategy for “measured growth”: Clark
Emirates gave the Airbus A380 a major shot in the arm last week, placing the biggest single order ever for the superjumbo with a deal for 32 aircraft. The airline's chief executive Tim Clark dismissed cynicism from certain quarters about the deal, which takes the airline's orders for the 500-seater to 90 aircraft, saying that it simply reconfirms its successful strategy of "measured, staged growth".
The Dubai carrier signed the $11.5 billion firm order at last week's ILA show in Berlin, where it had also just taken delivery of the 10th of 58 Engine Alliance GP7200-powered A380s from its existing orders.
Clark says that the deal for 32 additional A380s, which will also be GP7200-powered, "has been in the making for a long time" and is "simply an extension of the growth strategy which have been doing successfully for quite a number of years".
Deliveries will begin shortly after the last of the current batch arrives in January 2015, says Clark: "The 32 will be delivered between April 2015 and November 2017.
The decision to expand the Emirates A380 fleet to 90 aircraft over the next seven years is part of the airline's strategy to ensure "we have the delivery slots we want at the time that we want, to allow us to grow at the pace that we want to", Clark says.
"When the going gets good again, if we haven't placed our orders and bagged the positions for the aircraft that we want to do the job then we'll be behind the curve when everybody else is doing it."
The airline is operating the 10 A380s already delivered to destinations across its network, including to key points in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia. Clark says that as the airline's traffic and network grows the double-decker will be deployed to more destinations in these regions, replacing existing widebodies, and also to increase frequencies.
The size that Emirates'A380 commitment has grown to now raises a few eyebrows, but Clark uses a simple utilisation calculation to justify it: "When we send an A380 to the US East or West Coast on a daily basis, I lose 2.5 aircraft. If I go there twice a day that's five aircraft, so you've only got to do six destinations on a double-daily frequency on 14.5h missions and those 32 aircraft are gone."
He also points out that the airline will begin a phase-out in February next year of around 68 of its older widebodies, including A330-200s, A340-300/500s and Boeing 777-200s. These aircraft will be replaced by the larger 777-300ER, and the A350 XWB which is on order, as the A380s arrive and succeed those big twinjets on denser routes.

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The A380 order, which is the first for the superjumbo in 2010 and comes after several years of slow sales, has met with criticism in some quarters with observers querying the logic of Airbus's over-reliance on one market for A380 sales.
"From Emirates' viewpoint, it might just be win-win. They'll almost certainly get walk-away rights, so the worst-case scenario is a cancelled order," says Richard Aboulafia, vice-president analysis at Teal Group.
"Best case is better market access, and a lot of heavily discounted capacity with which to take advantage of this access. But even then it's impossible to imagine an expansion plan that absorbed 90 A380s before 2026, especially given all their other order positions."

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But Airbus chief executive Tom Enders says the benefits of having so many A380s earmarked for one carrier outweigh the business risks. "There is always a risk in this sort of exposure, but if you see how Emirates operates, it has one of the best managements in the world. Their strategy is not built on sand. They see chances where others see risks. So I don't think we have too many eggs with a weak customer, as Emirates have demonstrated [by emerging quickly from] this crisis."
He adds: "Industrially it is much better than selling four A380s here and six there, with each one differently customised. Of course, it is easier for us to have bigger orders with fewer customers."
Although Emirates was a launch customer for the A380, its first commitment was for just seven aircraft (plus five options) and the growing success of the superjumbo at the airline has come as a relatively recent surprise to Airbus. Until 2005, the airline's Dubai hub was notably absent from the list of top 10 superjumbo hubs in Airbus's 20-year global market forecasts - it then went straight in at number six.
However Enders says that A380 was developed very much with the Middle East and Asia in mind. He sees Asia as the bigger opportunity now, as this Emirates order probably represents one of the final big commitments from that region. "I think we have exploited that market already".
He believes the Emirates commitment will prompt rivals to reconsider their fleet strategy. "Some of the blue-chip airlines will have to think 'Are we getting it right and Tim [Clark] is getting it very wrong. What will the world look like when Emirates has 90 A380s?'."
Although Airbus's A380 product-marketing chief Richard Carcaillet acknowledges that the industry is not used to seeing orders of this size for very large aircraft, he is convinced more customers will follow the Emirates lead: "I have no doubt we'll see a number of airlines with fleets of this sort of size in the medium to long term."
But Aboulafia points out that as Emirates is not growing with traffic that is organic to Dubai, its huge deal could hurt other potential A380 customers. "Much of Emirates' traffic has been siphoned off from Europe's legacy carriers. Europe appears willing to let Emirates poach this traffic in order to save the A380. Since the A380 seems to have exactly one big fan (whose enthusiasm has been overstated) letting Emirates grow at European carriers' expense might be the only way to generate demand for this airplane."
Speaking a month before the Emirates deal, Airbus's chief salesman John Leahy doubled his earlier estimate for the minimum number of new A380 orders in 2010 to "at least 20". But Aboulafia says if this deal constitutes that forecast, it "raises troubling questions about this programme, particularly if ILFC cancels its orders. It has been a very long time since they've secured new A380 orders, or a meaningful commitment from someone new."
However Carcaillet says that Airbus is currently engaged in A380 sales campaigns with at least three potential new customers for the type, although he is non-committal whether any more deals could materialise this year.

Le président exécutif du groupe aéronautique européen EADS, Louis Gallois, a estimé dimanche que la récente commande de 32 Airbus A380 par la compagnie Emirates était un "vote de confiance extraordinaire" pour cet avion et un "présage très favorable pour son avenir".

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New A380 deal part of long-term strategy for “measured growth”: Clark
Emirates gave the Airbus A380 a major shot in the arm last week, placing the biggest single order ever for the superjumbo with a deal for 32 aircraft. The airline's chief executive Tim Clark dismissed cynicism from certain quarters about the deal, which takes the airline's orders for the 500-seater to 90 aircraft, saying that it simply reconfirms its successful strategy of "measured, staged growth".

The Dubai carrier signed the $11.5 billion firm order at last week's ILA show in Berlin, where it had also just taken delivery of the 10th of 58 Engine Alliance GP7200-powered A380s from its existing orders.
Clark says that the deal for 32 additional A380s, which will also be GP7200-powered, "has been in the making for a long time" and is "simply an extension of the growth strategy which have been doing successfully for quite a number of years".
Deliveries will begin shortly after the last of the current batch arrives in January 2015, says Clark: "The 32 will be delivered between April 2015 and November 2017.
The decision to expand the Emirates A380 fleet to 90 aircraft over the next seven years is part of the airline's strategy to ensure "we have the delivery slots we want at the time that we want, to allow us to grow at the pace that we want to", Clark says.

"When the going gets good again, if we haven't placed our orders and bagged the positions for the aircraft that we want to do the job then we'll be behind the curve when everybody else is doing it."

The airline is operating the 10 A380s already delivered to destinations across its network, including to key points in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia. Clark says that as the airline's traffic and network grows the double-decker will be deployed to more destinations in these regions, replacing existing widebodies, and also to increase frequencies.
The size that Emirates'A380 commitment has grown to now raises a few eyebrows, but Clark uses a simple utilisation calculation to justify it: "When we send an A380 to the US East or West Coast on a daily basis, I lose 2.5 aircraft. If I go there twice a day that's five aircraft, so you've only got to do six destinations on a double-daily frequency on 14.5h missions and those 32 aircraft are gone."

He also points out that the airline will begin a phase-out in February next year of around 68 of its older widebodies, including A330-200s, A340-300/500s and Boeing 777-200s. These aircraft will be replaced by the larger 777-300ER, and the A350 XWB which is on order, as the A380s arrive and succeed those big twinjets on denser routes.[/quote]
Il révèle sa stratégie ou sa tactique, dans l'exploitation de la flotte !

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The A380 order, which is the first for the superjumbo in 2010 and comes after several years of slow sales, has met with criticism in some quarters with observers querying the logic of Airbus's over-reliance on one market for A380 sales.
"From Emirates' viewpoint, it might just be win-win. They'll almost certainly get walk-away rights, so the worst-case scenario is a cancelled order," says Richard Aboulafia, vice-president analysis at Teal Group.

"So what" ? Et alors ?

"Best case is better market access, and a lot of heavily discounted capacity with which to take advantage of this access. But even then it's impossible to imagine an expansion plan that absorbed 90 A380s before 2026, especially given all their other order positions."

Il y a inévitablement du remplacement et de l'expansion ! C'est une question d'une combinaison des deux ! "So what" ?

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But Airbus chief executive Tom Enders says the benefits of having so many A380s earmarked for one carrier outweigh the business risks. "There is always a risk in this sort of exposure, but if you see how Emirates operates, it has one of the best managements in the world. Their strategy is not built on sand. They see chances where others see risks. So I don't think we have too many eggs with a weak customer, as Emirates have demonstrated [by emerging quickly from] this crisis."
He adds: "Industrially it is much better than selling four A380s here and six there, with each one differently customised. Of course, it is easier for us to have bigger orders with fewer customers."

Oui.

Although Emirates was a launch customer for the A380, its first commitment was for just seven aircraft (plus five options) and the growing success of the superjumbo at the airline has come as a relatively recent surprise to Airbus. Until 2005, the airline's Dubai hub was notably absent from the list of top 10 superjumbo hubs in Airbus's 20-year global market forecasts - it then went straight in at number six.
However Enders says that A380 was developed very much with the Middle East and Asia in mind. He sees Asia as the bigger opportunity now, as this Emirates order probably represents one of the final big commitments from that region. "I think we have exploited that market already".

Cela est possible.

He believes the Emirates commitment will prompt rivals to reconsider their fleet strategy. "Some of the blue-chip airlines will have to think 'Are we getting it right and Tim [Clark] is getting it very wrong. What will the world look like when Emirates has 90 A380s?'."

Il est clair que cette commande va catalyser des réflexions & de l'action chez d'autres Cies. aériennes !

Although Airbus's A380 product-marketing chief Richard Carcaillet acknowledges that the industry is not used to seeing orders of this size for very large aircraft, he is convinced more customers will follow the Emirates lead: "I have no doubt we'll see a number of airlines with fleets of this sort of size in the medium to long term."

Pas sûr ! A voir ! Mais cette commande est bonne à prendre ! Qu'est-ce qu'on entendrait si Boeing venait de placer 32 B747-8I ! Bande d'hypocrites !

But Aboulafia points out that as Emirates is not growing with traffic that is organic to Dubai, its huge deal could hurt other potential A380 customers.

Il y a des années, nous avions signalé cet aspect ! Quoi d'autre de nouveau !? C'est un des problèmes que les autres(concurrents) doivent traiter !

"Much of Emirates' traffic has been siphoned off from Europe's legacy carriers. Europe appears willing to let Emirates poach this traffic in order to save the A380. Since the A380 seems to have exactly one big fan (whose enthusiasm has been overstated******) letting Emirates grow at European carriers' expense might be the only way to generate demand for this airplane."

****** Il y a beaucoup d'acteurs qui diraient le contraire, Richard !

Speaking a month before the Emirates deal, Airbus's chief salesman John Leahy doubled his earlier estimate for the minimum number of new A380 orders in 2010 to "at least 20". But Aboulafia says if this deal constitutes that forecast, it "raises troubling questions about this programme, particularly if ILFC cancels its orders. It has been a very long time since they've secured new A380 orders, or a meaningful commitment from someone new."

However Carcaillet says that Airbus is currently engaged in A380 sales campaigns with at least three potential new customers for the type, although he is non-committal whether any more deals could materialise this year.

La réponse à certaines critiques....

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Why did Emirates announce its massive [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] order at ILA rather than the higher-profile [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] next month? That was a question many were asking at an event that has been seen in the past as a rather parochial get-together for German industry.

There were two reasons. While the Dubai-based airline is already comfortably ensconced in the UK market, it is desperate to secure more lucrative German routes, including Berlin, where the regulatory and political environment is not so welcoming to potentially dominant foreign carriers.

Despite the temptation to delay the announcement to July, Emirates bosses figured the opportunity to impress German media and ministers, including Chancellor Angela Merkel, was too good to pass over.

[Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] parent [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] is also by far the biggest exhibitor at ILA, and through its influence with German trade association BDLI, in effect underwrites the whole event. The European giant was delighted to dominate the headlines at what it regards, with Paris, as one of its two home shows.

Emirates Airline president Tim Clark says the carrier is likely to need even more A380s than the 90 it has ordered so far.

Speaking to Flight International in the wake of the recent order for 32 more A380s for delivery between 2015 and 2017, Clark said that deal was “simply an extension of the growth strategy which have been doing successfully for quite a number of years”.

He adds: “When the going gets good again, if we haven’t placed our orders and bagged the positions for the aircraft that we want to do the job then we’ll be behind the curve when everybody else is doing it.”

And while the Dubai carrier’s huge A380 backlog has raised many eyebrows, Clark indicates that it may still have an appetite for more: “The mapping of the airline actually sees a lot more A380s needed than even that number, and I know that’s difficult for a lot of people to stomach.”

Emirates is flying 10 A380s configured with either 489 or 517 seats, and the type is popular, says Clark. “Whenever we fly the aircraft it fills up,” he says.

Forsythe a écrit:Merci

De ce que nous avons entre les mains, une dizaine d'option supplémentaires correspond au souhait de retirer de la flotte 6 à 10 A 380, les premiers livrés à EK.

Quelles différences, même minimes entre les A 380 " phase I " et ce qui doit correspondre à la "phase II" ?

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Emirates talks to Boeing about 777 successor and hints at more big orders
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The Dubai carrier’s all-widebody fleet totals more than 140 aircraft, with a further 168 on order. Its backlog comprises 18 777-300ERs, which make the balance of its orders and leases for 71 aircraft, as well as 70 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] (50 -900s/20 -1000s) and 80 A380s.
A rollover will begin in February 2011 when Emirates starts phasing out 68 older widebodies – [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-200s, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]/500s and 777 “Classics”.

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This has fuelled speculation that more large-twinjet orders are being discussed, and industry sources indicate that Emirates may be negotiating a big Boeing deal for Farnborough.
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“We’ve told Boeing we need to look at something that has the legs, the lift and economics of today’s -300ER but with the A350-1000’s predicted fuel burn.”
Clark concedes there is no guarantee Boeing will decide to develop such a new big twin, but says that “if they do it somewhere between 2017 and 2020” the airline would consider it, “otherwise we’ll have to think again about the -300ER replacement”.
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Although Clark revealed last year that he was considering reviving the transaction, that may no longer be the case because of the new A380 contract.

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The Dubai carrier’s all-widebody fleet totals more than 140 aircraft, with a further 168 on order. Its backlog comprises 18 777-300ERs, which make the balance of its orders and leases for 71 aircraft, as well as 70 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] (50 -900s/20 -1000s) and 80 A380s.
A rollover will begin in February 2011 when Emirates starts phasing out 68 older widebodies – [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-200s, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]/500s and 777 “Classics”.

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This has fuelled speculation that more large-twinjet orders are being discussed,
and industry sources indicate that Emirates may be negotiating a big Boeing deal for Farnborough.
Phase-out of the airline’s 777-300ERs begins in 2017, and while its [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-1000s are potential replacements, Clark confirms solutions from Seattle are in the mix.

“We’ve told Boeing we need to look at something that has the legs, the lift and economics of today’s -300ER but with the A350-1000’s predicted fuel burn.”

Clark concedes there is no guarantee Boeing will decide to develop such a new big twin, but says that “if they do it somewhere between 2017 and 2020” the airline would consider it, “otherwise we’ll have to think again about the -300ER replacement”.

The airline aborted a planned deal for 30 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]and 30 more A350-1000s announced in July 2008 at the time of its first [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] delivery.
Although Clark revealed last year that he was considering reviving the transaction, that may no longer be the case because of the new A380 contract.

Mohammed: our economy will overcome all challenges

In an interview with CNN, UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum stressed that the UAE's economy is strong despite the effects of global financial crisis. Underscoring the local economy's ability to overcome all challenges arising as a result of the worldwide recession, Sheikh Mohammed revealed Emirates Airline's decision to purchase new aircrafts next month.
Sheikh Mohammed said, ''The recession is a global phenomenon and I do not think that we in Dubai fear it, but instead consider it a challenge.''
He said that the UAE faces daily challenges such as water shortages, growth and development, adding that the country is not suffering from a recession in the real sense of the word, but rather challenges.
''Without challenges,''Sheikh Mohammed reasoned, ''life would be boring. Dubai and Abu Dhabi and the rest of the UAE are fine,'' he added.
In response to a question about the secret behind the Emirates Group's $15 billion business deals following the events of 9/11, as well as the recent $11.5 billion A380 Airbus purchase during the global financial crisis, Sheikh Mohammed said that opportunities arise out of crises. He remarked that Dubai Airport's continued expansion, in addition to large growth in passenger numbers and tourism, prompt the national airline to invest in more airplanes to keep pace with developments.
Sheikh Mohammed concluded by revealing that Emirates Group will place a large order at the Farnborough Air Show in July.
The interview with Sheikh Mohammed will be aired in full on CNN on Friday, July 25th.

Tuesday, June 22, 2010

DUBAÏ, 24 juin (Reuters) -

La compagnie aérienne Emirates, propriété de l'émirat de Dubaï et plus gros client d'Airbus pour le modèle A380, passera de nouvelles commandes d'appareils au salon de l'aviation de Farnborough en juillet, a annoncé jeudi le groupe.

"Emirates annoncera de nouvelles commandes d'appareils au salon aéronautique de Farnborough (sud-ouest de Londres).

Les détails de cette commande, y compris le nombre d'appareils et le nom du fabricant, seront dévoilés lors du salon", a indiqué une porte-parole du groupe.

En juin, la compagnie aérienne a passé une commande record de 32 gros-porteurs auprès d'airbus, portant à 90 le nombre d'appareils fabriqués par l'avionneur européenns commandés par Emirates.

La première compagnie aérienne du monde arabe par sa flotte, a multiplié par cinq son bénéfice sur l'année 2009-2010, à 3,5 milliards de dirhams (776 millions de dollars).

Le groupe anticipe un bénéfice net d'environ 4,25 milliards de dirhams sur l'ensemble de l'exercice courant.

Emirates a également annoncé en mai son intention de recruter 3.000 nouveaux salariés au cours de cette année pour renforcer le personnel navigant nécessaire au développement de sa flotte.

(Tamara Walid, Catherine Monin pour le service français, édité par Nicolas Delame)

On the 15th July 2010, EK 516/517 will operate with the A380 instead of the A330.

EK 516 DXB - DEL 1010 1450
EK 517 DEL - DXB 1615 1810

Here is the deal regarding the B777-300ER on the DXB-SFO-DXB route.

Due to high passenger demand, the B777-300ER was placed on the route.
Only 4 B777-300ER's are used , A6-ECL-O. These 4 aircraft have been certified
with 2T more Take off weigh than the other in the fleet.
Only 328 passengers are allowed to be booked on the flight for payload restrictions.

Only these 4 are 351.5T the rest are all 349.2T. They don't need these weights on the other
routes. Only JFK and the future MEL/GRU route needs these weights.

Also limited cargo is carried on the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
This flight can only accommodate about 42T of payload out of Dubai and 44T out of SFO.

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Haan

Emirates today wrote a new chapter in the history of Indian Civil Aviation as its Airbus A380 landed at the newly inaugurated Terminal 3 at the Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport, New Delhi.

With the arrival of EK 516 from Dubai, Emirates became the first international carrier to touch down a commercial A380 flight on Indian soil.

Celebrating 25 years of India operations, Emirates has played a catalytic role in enhancing economic ties between India and the UAE.

Trade volume between the two countries has significantly increased with a 53 per cent jump in the value of Indian exports between 2007/08 and 2008/09 alone, from Dhs 57.4 billion (US$15.63bn) to Dhs 87.85 ($23.92bn).

The UAE now accounts for 13 per cent of India’s total exports.

The special, one-off flight of the 517-seat A380 arrived at the IGI Airport to a water cannon salute at 14:50.

A senior delegation of Emirates officials led by Richard Vaughan - Emirates’ Divisional Senior Vice President Commercial Operations - and Majid Al Mualla - Emirates’ Senior Vice President, West Asia & Indian Ocean - arrived on this special flight of the Emirates A380, commissioned to celebrate the launch of the new Terminal 3.

“This is a proud moment for Emirates as we celebrate 25 years of successful operations in India, one of our most important destinations, not just in Southern Asia, but across our global network,” Mr Vaughan told a 200-strong audience comprising media, travel agents and VIPs, hosted by Emirates and GMR.
And, with an expanding fleet of modern aircraft, Emirates is well placedto meet the India’s growth requirements in the long term.

Speaking about the possibility of introducing the A380 permanently on Indian routes, Mr Vaughan said that with 11 A380s already part of the carrier’s fleet and 79 more to come, Emirates saw a “significant opportunity” to start regular services to India, subject to government approvals.

“We do see India as one of the key markets where this product will be able to do full justice,” he said, pointing out that the connectivity that Emirates offers through its Dubai hub is second to none.

“Introducing it on the Indian routes is only expected to fuel further growth in the Indian economy and strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries. We are upbeat about our plans and hopeful of being able to offer the product as a regular service to the Indian travellers in the near future.”

Emirates’ A380 is renowned for its First Class Private Suites, Shower Spas and Onboard Lounge for First Class and Business Class passengers, offering a wide range of drinks and canapés, as well as space to socialise or simply relax.

Emirates orders 30 more 777-300ERs

Middle Eastern carrier Emirates has ordered another 30 Boeing 777-300ERs, adding to a previous order total of 71 of the type.
The airline, which disclosed the deal at the Farnborough Air Show, values the agreement at $9.1 billion.
All 777-300ERs are fitted with General Electric GE90 engines.
Emirates' aircraft will be opreated in a three-class configuration, with eight first-class suites, 42 business-class and 310 economy-class seats.
There are 86 777s already in the Dubai-based carrier's fleet, including 53 777-300ERs.

Emirates warns that physical constraints threaten further orders

Confirming the much-speculated deal for 30 more Boeing 777s worth $9.1 billion, Emirates has warned that its appetite for further new aircraft orders depends on long-term infrastructure constraints being overcome.
The Farnborough order takes the airline's firm 777-300ER commitments to 71 aircraft, and comes on top of a contract agreed with Airbus last month to increase its A380 orders by 32 aircraft to 90. These aircraft will be used for growth and to replace the 68 older A330/A340 and 777 Classics that the airline is to start phasing out next year. Delivery of the newly ordered -300ERs will be interspersed with the remaining 18 777s on backlog, with deliveries due to begin in September next year.
However, Emirates Airline boss Tim Clark says that the new A380/777 orders, combined with the airline's existing 777 commitments and 70 A350-900/1000s, effectively brings the current fleet expansion and replacement plan to a close.
"Physical constraints are the single largest inhibitors to Emirates' growth - these include what airports can take the A380, how quickly the Dubai hub can be built to match our expansion, and airspace management issues," says Clark. "If it hadn't been for those inhibitors we would have made much larger orders for expansion over the next 10 years."
Clark says that an immediate benefit of Emirates' huge June A380 deal has prompted "around 20 airports to contact us and say 'ah, we now realise you are absolutely serious about what you are doing, we'll make our airfields compliant. Will you come here?' Some of these are in the UK and some in continental Europe - so in some respects that part of the jigsaw is being sorted out

A few years ago Christopher Nolan, whose current film Inception is turning into one of this summer’s blockbusters, directed a thriller about two rival magicians. Set in London at the beginning of the 20th century, The Prestige tells the story of how two magicians obsessed with creating the very best stage illusion engage in fiercely competitive one-upmanship. It all ends tragically.

In the corporate sector, [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] have been engaged in a ferocious game of one-upmanship for leadership in the global commercial aircraft market. Airbus came from nowhere, challenged its US rival, and ultimately overtook it. Boeing’s head of commercial aircraft, Jim Albaugh, now says he is “very confident about how we are positioned to regain – and retain – leadership in this business”.

Mr. Albaugh on Monday pulled a plump rabbit out of his hat on the opening day of the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. He announced that [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] had won an impressive order for 30 of its 777 widebody airliners from Emirates, the Dubai-based carrier that is already the 777’s single largest customer.

• en bradant les prix, et en ayant recours à des astuces commerciales (par exemple, sans accusation ni procès d'intention aucune : possibilité d'octroyer aux clients des indemnités pour couvrir le coût excédentaire du kérosène, dans l'exploitation de ces Boeing avec ses moteurs d'une génération vieillissante ...., par rapport à la facture du carburant relative aux A350-XWB correspondants... ; réduction du prix facturé de l'entretien etc. ; "buy-back" à un bon prix d'occasion, au moment où le nouveau "Superbi-" (NG) de Boeing arriverait sur le marché, comme remplacement des B777-300ER....., avec des prix de lancement agréablement réduits pour une liste longue de clients de lancement ..... ; et qu'Emirates semble adorer ce genre de chose, en sa faveur..... , et serait très flatté d'avoir un 'grand Boeing fait sur mesure pour lui) ;
  

Boeing’s European arch-rival Airbus pulled a similar rabbit out of its hat a month ago by announcing at the Berlin Air Show it had won an order for 32 of its A380 super jumbos from Emirates. Once again, the Dubai airline also happens to be the single largest customer for the A380.

All this of course is great news for the industry. It suggests, as both Boeing and Airbus have been saying at Farnborough, that the civil aircraft market is recovering and that airlines and indeed aircraft leasing companies are again placing orders.

Although the world economy is not yet out of the woods, especially in the case of Europe and the US, there are pockets of growth in Asia and the Middle East.

The problem is that these recent new blockbuster widebody aircraft orders from Emirates may not be all that they seem to be. For there is a widespread suspicion in the market that they are not so much brand new orders but a repackaging of earlier orders placed by DAE Capital, the leasing arm of the Dubai government backed aviation financing and engineering group Dubai Aerospace Enterprise (DAE).

Back in the salad days of 2006 and 2007, DAE Capital ordered nearly $29bn worth of aircraft roughly evenly split between Boeing and Airbus as part of its ambitious efforts to become a big player on the aircraft leasing market.

Then the global economic crisis came along, the Dubai property bubble burst and the emirate found itself with a [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]. That by no means put an end to the country’s aviation ambitions, but it nonetheless forced it to focus on its priorities – continuing to develop Emirates into a leading global carrier and building the new Al-Maktoum international airport.

A senior Dubai government official recently confirmed that DAE was renegotiating its order for more than 200 Boeing and Airbus aircraft. The trouble was that the bulk of these orders appear to have been for narrowbody aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737 and these are of little or no interest to Emirates.

So what appears to have happened is a classic sleight of hand where what seems to disappear into thin air on one side reappears – hey presto – on the other. Except this time the magicians also seem to have transformed narrowbody aircraft into plumb widebodies.

And what, God forbid, should happen were such a valued customer as the Dubai flag-carrier itself disappear into thin air? No doubt the two great magicians of the civil aircraft industry would have to dig deep into their bag of tricks.

SEVRIEN a écrit:Bonjour / bonsoir chers tous.

Je reviens sur ce sujet, ayant espéré que quelqu'un d'autre mettrait ses pieds dans le plat. [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]

Eh bien, ... j'y vais.

Désolé ! Tout un texte de perdu ! Je recommencerai plus tard ! C'est fatigant ! [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir cette image]

CHEYENNE a écrit:En additionnant les flottes; exploitations et commandes pendantes d'Emirates et DAE, il y a un trop apparent ( pour autant que l'on connaisse le business plan refait d'EK ) de 70 à 110 avions Airbus et Boeing MC et LC.

Ce n'est pas Tim Clark qui décidera de la composition de flotte d'EK en 2012 et ensuite.

90 A 380 plus 136 B 777 (on peut retrancher 5 à 10 A 380 et 12 à 25 B 777) : plus de place pour récupérer des avions commandés par DAE en long haul; les affaires 737 et 320 sont autres.

Les 777 replacés par SIA ont donné des idées et n'ont pas fait les affaires en new built. SIA aime avoir aussi une flotte jeune.

Les nouveaux actionnaires d'Emirates et sociétés sœurs ont choisis de conserver MRO, formation et de ne pas déposer les garanties de paiements sur les commandes géantes DAE. Ceux qui prédisaient trop d'avions en commande sont à coté, sur ce dossier, c'est un choix des actionnaires; la crise de liquidité n'était pas la cause principale.

Garuda paie assez irrégulièrement ses loyers sur les 737NG DAE mais ces risques sont largement calculés avant conclusion; donc les avions loués à Garuda ( FlyDubai peut-être;..) trouveront preneurs.

Des 777-200 et -300 d'EK sur le marché de l'occasion ne seraient pas une grosse surprise et ne feraient toujours pas les affaires en new built chez Boeing.

Le business case recentré sur l'exploitation et l'ouverture de lignes aériennes d'EK.

Le super Bi éventuel de Boeing, remplaçant, n'est pas la première préoccupation de ceux qui tirent les ficelles chez EK.