All Emirates Airline articles – Page 21
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Alaska weighs in in favour of open skies
Alaska Airlines favours the US open-skies policy, adding another voice to the Gulf carrier access debate.
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NewsUS govt pushes review of Gulf subsidy claims to August
The US government will wait until late August at the earliest to deliberate on allegations by three US mainline carriers that their Gulf rivals received $42 billion in state subsidies.
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NewsEmirates formally rebuts US carriers' subsidy claims
Emirates Airline says it was assured by the US government that it would assess the ongoing dispute over alleged subsidies to Gulf carriers, without being influenced by the three US mainline carriers calling for action against the Gulf airlines.
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NewsIATA: Emirates pushes for better hot performance from 787-10
Emirates is unsure whether it will finalise a deal for Airbus A350-900s or Boeing 787-10s before the end of the year, and is waiting to hear whether Seattle will respond to concerns around hot-weather performance for the stretched Dreamliner.
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IATA: Oneworld sees alliances value despite spread of JVs
Oneworld chief executive Bruce Ashby says that the multilateral alliances remain compelling even as more carriers pursue joint ventures.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Small steps to success for A380
Ten years after the A380’s quietly impressive airborne choreography wowed the crowds at its Le Bourget debut, Airbus continues to insist that a commercial breakthrough for the world’s largest airliner is on the horizon, even if it now concedes its flagship is not going to transform long-haul flying in the ...
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NewsUrgency enters US airlines push to limit capacity in Gulf row
The chief executives of American Airlines, Delta Air Lines and United Airlines gathered to reiterate the need to limit the expansion of the Gulf carriers to USA, adding a newfound sense urgency to the issue they began pushing in January.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Thai’s fighting retreat from Europe
Thai Airways’ planned capacity cuts on European routes this summer marks a turning point in the carrier’s history, as it faces a perfect storm of declining European tourist arrivals, a falling Euro, and increasing pressure from Emirates, Etihad, and Qatar Airways.
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OBITUARY: Maurice Flanagan, the expat who helped Emirates take over the world
Maurice Flanagan, who has died aged 86, caught the Dubai bug when he arrived on a two-year secondment to run the city’s airport and travel operator Dnata in the late-1970s. “Everything looked so promising that I decided to stay,” he recalled two decades later. By taking up the royal family’s ...
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NewsEmirates Group profit surges despite runway interruption
Middle Eastern operation Emirates Group has achieved its second-highest full-year profit, up 34% to Dhs5.5 billion ($1.5 billion).
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Middle East carriers slurp Vietnam Airlines' pho
Vietnam experienced strong growth in visitor arrivals from Western Europe in 2014, but this correlated with heavy capacity growth to Ho Chi Minh and Hanoi in recent years by the big three Middle Eastern carriers.
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ANALYSIS: Emirates' Trent selection gives Rolls the A380 lead
Emirates’ decision to switch to Rolls-Royce engines for its latest batch of Airbus A380s nudges the UK manufacturer ahead of rival Engine Alliance, although the lead amounts to fewer than a dozen aircraft.
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NewsUsed A380 market a chance to explore type's value: Clark
Emirates president Tim Clark believes that the second-hand market for the Airbus A380 will be a good opportunity for carriers to explore the economic capabilities of the jet.
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NewsRe-engined A380 prospects hazy as Emirates takes Trent 900
Emirates believes it has room to convert some of its Rolls-Royce-powered Airbus A380s to a future re-engined version, but is prepared to fit all 50 with the Trent 900 if there is no sign of movement from the airframer.
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NewsVIDEO: Emirates confirms Trent for 50 A380s
Emirates has confirmed it is taking Rolls-Royce Trent 900s for 50 Airbus A380s.
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NewsUS government to review Gulf subsidy claims
The US government says it will review claims by three US airlines that their state-owned Gulf rivals received more than $40 billion in alleged subsidies, after intense lobbying from the US carriers.
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NewsINTERIORS: Middle Eastern carriers show their Gulf in class
Twenty years ago the idea that routes from Dubai, Doha or Abu Dhabi to London Heathrow would be some of the busiest trunk operations in the world would have been hard to imagine. Fast forward to 2015, though, and that faintly ridiculous notion has become an impressive reality.
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Emirates closes JOLCO financing on A380
Emirates has closed financing on a new Airbus A380 delivery through a syndicate of banks.
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JetBlue to add Emirates codeshare to Cleveland flights
New York-based JetBlue Airways will place codeshare partner Emirates Airline's code on its new Cleveland-Boston flights.
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OpinionOPINION: Why Airbus is wrestling with its 'A380neo' decision
With re-engining central to four successful airframe-refresh programmes, one could be forgiven for wondering why Airbus is wrestling with its decision about whether to update its flagship product.
