Emirates : EK : UAE

Details have emerged of Emirates' [url=http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/airbus a380.html]Airbus A380[/url] delivery schedule over the next three years, which reveal that the airline has pushed back fleet expansion and will not receive any of the superjumbos for almost a year after the end of 2010.
Speaking at the [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien], Jim Moravecek, outgoing president of the 50/50 General Electric/Pratt & Whitney joint venture Engine Alliance, said that Emirates, which is the lead [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-powered [url=http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/airbus a380.html]A380[/url] customer, had delayed deliveries: "Emirates will take 15 A380s through next year, then defer for a little while."
An Engine Alliance chart showing fleet growth of the GP7200-powered A380 between the first delivery in 2008 and 2012 reveals that from mid-2010, when the Emirates fleet was due to reach 15 units, there are no deliveries for around 10 months. Since the chart was produced, Emirates has revealed that due to production hold-ups its A380 fleet will not reach 15 units until late 2010.
According to the chart, Emirates shipments then resume from around mid-2011 (a date that is also likely have moved to the right), with its fleet rapidly doubling over around 18 months to 30 aircraft by the end of 2012.
[url=http://www.flightglobal.com/landingpage/emirates airline.html]Emirates Airline[/url] president Tim Clark recently told Flight International the airline's A380 schedule beyond the first 15 deliveries "remains fluid". In response to the Engine Alliance data, Emirates says "we still have no firm delivery schedule from [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]", but will not comment about whether it has deferred any aircraft.
Emirates has taken five A380s since its first arrived in July 2008. Its sixth, which is due before the end of November, is one of the ex-Airbus development airframes. Nine more deliveries are due through to late 2010.
Moravecek, who took over as Alliance president in mid-2008, is returning to P&W early to lead its advanced next-generation product family arm. He has been replaced by Mary Ellen Jones, who will see out the remainder of the three-year term.
Meanwhile, Emirates has brought forward the introduction of the A380 on the Dubai-Paris route, with plans to start services before the end of the year. It says the decision is due to an "operational review, coupled with demand on the route" as well as "earlier aircraft availability".

Les dirigeants d’Emirates ne s’inquiètent pas. La compagnie de Dubaï a expliqué le 30 novembre que la crise subie par l’émirat ne remettait en question ni la croissance de la compagnie, si ses commandes, ni son indépendance.

Emirates est en effet en forme. Elle a enregistré un bénéfice de 205 millions de dollars au premier semestre et s’attend à ce que son résultat soit encore meilleur au second.

La compagnie a donc confirmé qu’elle ne suspendrait pas son expansion ni ne renoncerait à ses contrats avec Airbus et Boeing.

Jeudi 26 novembre, l’émirat de Dubaï avait annoncé qu’il pourrait être en cessation de paiement, faisant s’effondrer les places boursières mondiales. Aujourd’hui encore, la banque de l’émirat a clôturé en baisse de 7,3%.

Pourquoi Emirates subit peu la tempête financière de Dubaï ?

Emirates poursuit son décollage. Y a-t-il contradiction ? Alors que les bourses locales dévissent et que les dettes du secteur immobilier se chiffrent en dizaines de milliards de dollars, la compagnie aérienne basée à Dubaï vient d'annoncer une mise en service anticipée de l'Airbus A 380 sur Paris avec une hausse conséquente de l'offre en nombre de sièges. Un peu de géographie du transport aérien mondial permet de comprendre pourquoi Emirates est relativement peu touchée par une crise aux Émirats. À bord d'un avion d'Emirates au départ de Paris mais aussi de Londres, Francfort, Rome, New York, etc., plus de 70 % des passagers ne sont pas à destination de Dubaï mais seulement en correspondance vers l'Inde, l'Asie ou l'Australie.

Entre Paris et Dubaï, seule la clientèle, minoritaire, qui s'arrête dans l'Émirat, est concernée par la crise et réduira ses voyages. Les autres continuent à transiter par ce hub fort bien situé au confluent des flux de passagers entre l'Asie, l'Afrique et l'Europe qui reçoit 30 millions de passagers par an. L'Émirat, lui, compte un peu plus d'un million et demi d'habitants... Les chameaux des caravanes d'antan ont été remplacés par des Boeing 777 et des Airbus A 380.

Paris-Dubaï dès le 29 décembre

Tim Clark, le directeur général d'Emirates, vient par ailleurs d'indiquer qu'il n'avait pas l'intention d'annuler de commandes d'avions et que les finances de sa compagnie n'étaient pas impactées par la crise. Il n'a toutefois pas précisé si celle-ci pourrait être offerte en garantie aux prêteurs comme le riche émirat d'Abou Dhabi qui renflouerait l'immobilier dubaïote. Le résultat net d'Emirates pour les six derniers mois jusqu'à septembre fait état d'un profit de 205 millions de dollars en hausse de 165 % par rapport à la même période l'an dernier, même si le chiffre d'affaires, lui, est en chute de 13,5 % due à la baisse du coupon moyen et de l'activité cargo. Pendant l'exercice fiscal annuel, huit avions supplémentaires ont été reçus et dix autres sont attendus, ce qui portera la flotte à 139 appareils.

La ligne Paris-Dubaï devrait être prochainement ouverte. Emirates avait prévu de mettre en ligne l'Airbus A 380 le 1er février 2010 mais vient d'avancer la date au 29 décembre 2009. Dans un premier temps, jusqu'au 17 janvier, l'A 380 assurera trois vols par semaine : mardi, jeudi et dimanche. Puis, à partir du 17 janvier, il deviendra quotidien. Cette mise en service anticipée s'explique par la forte demande sur le réseau au départ de Paris et la faculté d'adaptation d'Emirates qui peut affecter avec un court préavis un super jumbo sur Paris-Dubaï. Contrairement à Air France qui, crise oblige, fusionne deux vols en un seul sur Paris-New York à l'occasion de la mise en service de l'A 380 la semaine dernière, Emirates conserve le même nombre de fréquences entre Paris et Dubaï. Le vol de 14h30 sera exploité en A 380 et celui du soir en Boeing 777. Ce sont donc plus de cent sièges de plus qui seront proposés chaque jour dans chaque sens.

Following up on Emirates airline's [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] that Dubai's financial crisis wouldn't affect the state-owned carrier's jet orders, other reports suggest it could.
Flight International [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] Monday that Emirates has delayed delivery of many of the 53 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] super-jumbo jets it has on order and won't receive any A380s for nearly a year after the end of 2010.
Meanwhile, the U.K. Guardian newspaper [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] Monday that Abu Dhabi, Dubai's sister emirate, could demand ownership of Emirates in return for a bailout.

DUBAI, 10 décembre (Reuters) - Emirates [EMIRA.UL], la compagnie aérienne de l'émirat de Dubaï, a déclaré jeudi ne connaître aucun souci d'ordre financier, précisant qu'elle avait levé 1,13 milliard de dollars pour prendre livraison d'une partie des 53 Airbus A380 commandés.
"Emirates reste dans une position financière solide malgré la crise financière mondiale", a déclaré Tim Clarke, directeur général de l'entreprise, cité dans un courrier électronique envoyé par le groupe.
"Nous n'avons jamais rencontré la moindre difficulté pour obtenir des financements pour notre programme d'achat d'avions (...)."
Emirates recevra le premier d'une série de six A380, le très gros porteur d'Airbus, la semaine prochaine. Un deuxième devrait être livré à la fin du mois et quatre autres en 2010, a ajouté la compagnie.

DUBAI, Dec 10, 2009 : Dubai's national flag carrier, Emirates, said on Thursday it has raised 1.13 billion dollars to finance the purchase of six Airbus A380 superjumbos, stressing it has no difficulty obtaining finance.

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Emirates will operate the A380 to Saudi Arabia when it launches a four-times-weekly Dubai-Jeddah service on Feb. 1. The aircraft will seat 14 in first class, 76 in business and 427 in economy. Jeddah will be EK's eighth A380 destination. It began flying the aircraft to Paris Charles de Gaulle on Dec. 29. It currently operates the Jeddah route daily. EK also announced the launch of a daily flight to Prague on July 1 aboard a two-class A330-200.
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DUBAI (Zawya [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien])--

Emirates Airlines est en pourparlers avec Airbus et Boeing Co. (BA) en vue de nouvelles commandes d'avions, a indiqué mercredi Sheik Ahmed, le président de la compagnie aérienne, à Zawya [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].

"Nous sommes en discussions avec Boeing et Airbus. Nous souhaitons acheter davantage d'avions, peut-être dix, soit des 777 soit des A330", a-t-il précisé.

Plus important client d'Airbus pour l'A380, Emirates doit recevoir 7 nouveaux très gros porteurs d'ici à mars 2011, a également indiqué S.Ahmed.

Emirates exploite déjà huit A380.

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Forsythe a écrit:Des 777 ou A 330 supplémentaires pour EK ?

Info reprise de Zawya - Dow Jones qui laisse un peu perplexe sur le contenu.

Pour moi, il y a déjà trop de 777 en commande, même en excluant DAE Capital (10 -300ER...? ), et les quelques 80 777 d' EK toutes versions pax ( 200ER; 200LR; 300; 300ER ). Non compris les 777 F

Forsythe a écrit:Pour les A 330, cela fait une trentaine, tous en version -200.

Forsythe a écrit:La LoI de 2008 sur 30 A 330-300 a-t-elle été transformée, en partie ou totalité ?

Middle Eastern carrier [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] has signed a letter of intent for 30 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]and 30 [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
The carrier signed the agreement in Hamburg today ahead of its taking delivery of its first [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien].
No engine selection has been disclosed for the A330s. The [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] is currently only available with [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] powerplants.
Emirates will take delivery of the A330s from 2012.

From September 2010, Emirates will begin to roll over some of its older aircraft, beginning with its A330-200s, the oldest of which have now been in the fleet for a decade. A total of 58 aircraft will gradually be replaced, including 29 A330-200s, eight leased [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien]-300s and 21 777 Classics.

Clark says he felt obliged to continue with new deliveries because the alternative - telling [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] and [Vous devez être inscrit et connecté pour voir ce lien] he did not want to take the aircraft that were sitting on the ramp in Toulouse and Seattle - would "push half the aerospace industry out of work. We had a legal - almost moral - obligation to the supply chain to continue what we were doing."

But while passenger volumes have remained strong, "it's what the passengers are paying us that is a problem", says Clark.

SEVRIEN a écrit:.........Pour ma part (avis personnel), TC s'est rendu compte que, au lieu de permettre que les hommes du Dept. Marketing de Boeing continuent à lui vendre les "biggest & the best", il faudra qu'il regarde les possibilités en terme d'amélioration des rentabilités diverses et varieées de sa "route structure". Là, il commence à se rendre compte que des A330-200 & -300, bien motorisés (peut-être qu'il regardera vers les PW-4170****** ...., ....mais le choix logique, à tous points de vue, serait de prendre les RR Trent 772B-EP), peuvent faire l'affaire mieux que les B777-300ER (une grande partie du possible rayon d'action..... est futile, car jamais exploitée ; et faire voler trop de métal vide n'a pas de sens, surtout pendant une période durable où l'on ne gagne plus les revenus compensateurs -- et qui, notamment, ne sont plus 'garantis' ! -- du "belly freight"). ......................

"It is well known in the industry that Emirates is trying to push hard to divert as much global flow traffic via Dubai in order to deploy its massive fleet of wide-body aircraft," -- Air Canada CEO Calin Rovinescu.

The chief executive of Air Canada accused Emirates on Tuesday of wanting to "flood" Canadian skies with airline seats so it can scoop up passengers and divert them through Dubai.
Such a move by the Dubai government-owned airline would be "severely damaging" to airports and airlines operating in Canada as it would steal away the connecting passengers they depend on to make their routes profitable, Calin Rovinescu, CEO of Canada's biggest airline, said.

"While its argument may be seductive, what Emirates' strategy will do is constrain the growth of Canadian airports by turning them from hubs into stubs at the end of a spoke that leads only to Emirates' hub in Dubai," Rovinescu said in a speech in Vancouver.
Emirates has been lobbying the Canadian government to allow it to expand its three-day-a-week Dubai-Toronto service. It also wants to fly to Calgary and Vancouver.

A study, commissioned by Emirates and released two weeks ago, concluded that Canada could reap economic benefits of CAD$480 million (USD$466 million) a year and create 2,800 jobs if the Mideast airline was given more flying slots.

"It is well known in the industry that Emirates is trying to push hard to divert as much global flow traffic via Dubai in order to deploy its massive fleet of wide-body aircraft, including A380s it has purchased or has on order," Rovinescu said.
He said statistics showed that the number of people travelling daily to Dubai from Canada last year was "barely enough to fill a mid-size, 213-seat Boeing 767".

Last month Emirates' senior vice-president of international affairs, Andrew Parker, told Toronto's Globe and Mail newspaper that Air Canada and its Star Alliance partner, Lufthansa, were unnecessarily worried about losing passengers to Emirates.
He said Emirates' Toronto-Dubai flights have been more than 90 percent full.

(Reuters)

President Tim Clark told ATWOnline yesterday in Berlin that the airline's A380s have been a success with passengers and on the balance sheet but that "there are still problems with the reliability of the aircraft. And when we fix snags, we find new ones. I am trying to be kind to Airbus, but they have to solve the problems." The operational reliability of EK's seven in-service A380s is 90%-95%, which he said is not good enough, although he added that the manufacturer "gives us good support." EK plans to take seven more A380s and six 777-300ERs this year.
Meanwhile, Clark said the airline will report a 20% increase in passenger numbers for the year ending March 31. "We will have a good story to tell" when the full-year results are released later in the spring, he said. During the past year EK has been able to raise fares step-by-step by as much as 35%, but yields remain under pressure although load factors across the network have climbed to 83%-84%. It has no plan to reduce the number of premium seats on offer like some other carriers, particularly Qantas and Lufthansa. "Sure we took a hit in our premium classes. But the aviation industry is making the wrong decision. The more they reduce, the better it is for us. I don't believe that F and C class will not come back," he said

Jeannot a écrit:Emirates aime le 380 en dépit de quelques soucis de fiabilité.

President Tim Clark told ATWOnline yesterday in Berlin that the airline's A380s have been a success with passengers and on the balance sheet but that "there are still problems with the reliability of the aircraft. And when we fix snags, we find new ones. I am trying to be kind to Airbus, but they have to solve the problems." The operational reliability of EK's seven in-service A380s is 90%-95%, which he said is not good enough, although he added that the manufacturer "gives us good support."

EK plans to take seven more A380s and six 777-300ERs this year.

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Emirates has issued a strong warning to Airbus not to delay the introduction of the A350.

“We have clearly told Airbus that we will not accept again what they did to us with the A380,” Emirates President Tim Clark told The Daily at the ITB tourism exchange in Berlin. He pointed out that unlike in the case of the A380 – which was two years late – Emirates has alternatives to buy elsewhere: “All I have to do is pick up the phone and order more Boeing 777s,” Clark stressed. He showed concerns that the schedule could already begin to slip. “We have told Airbus numerous times that in our view they should build in more margin in terms of time and performance parameters, but they wanted to have it their way. Now they are already eating into margins,” Clark criticized.
Emirates has plans to retire 58 aircraft in the coming years, among them the A330-200s, A340-300s and the early 777-300s and 777-200s. If the A350 was significantly delayed, those aircraft would have to be kept longer. They would then well exceed Emirates’ usual aircraft retirement age which is at around 10 years. The airline received its first 777s in the mid-1990s.
Clark stressed that Emirates still has a keen interest in the larger version of the A380, the A380-900. According to the airline’s calculations, it could operate the aircraft in a 647-seat, three-class configuration. With a range of around 4,500 naut. mi., the A380-900 would typically operate eight-hour sectors and could thus mainly be used for destinations in Europe and Asia up to Beijing, but not Tokyo. Clark believes Emirates could accommodate up to 20 A380-900s and would immediately order the aircraft if Airbus was prepared to build it and Dubai airport can handle the additional aircaft. Emirates is already the biggest A380 customer with 58 on firm order. It has eight flying and will receive seven more this year.

Emirates is to add another Airbus A380 to its London Heathrow route from July 1 this year.

The airline began flying its first A380 to London in December 2008.
Emirates' senior vice president, commercial operations, Europe & Russian Federation Salem Obaidalla, said: “This is an important development for Emirates as this is the first route where we have made a long term commitment to double up on the double-decker.

“London Heathrow was one of the key airports we had in mind when the A380 was first conceived and the new deployment allows more passengers travelling to and from the British capital to experience this remarkable aircraft.”
The airliner is equipped with an onboard lounge and shower spa and can seat up to 517 passengers.
Emirates now operates eight A380s. In addition to London Heathrow, they fly to Toronto, Paris, Jeddah, Bangkok, Seoul, Sydney and Auckland.

Emirates, the international airline of the United Arab Emirates, arrived in Tokyo on Sunday evening with its
inaugural non-stop flight, following a day of celebrating all things Japan in Dubai................