Emirates sends first Airbus A380 in pension

The Gulf airline, sketched out for the first time, your outplacement of the fleet plans for the super Jumbo. Two Airbus A380 has taken to the Emirates now out of operation.

162 Airbus A380, had ordered Emirates originally. But in February, the largest customer of the aircraft model reduced the order of 39 to 123 super jumbos. He knell of the A380-programme to the death. The Gulf airline manifests itself for the first time detailed how and when she wants to be the largest Airbus model ausflotten.

Currently, 112 of the Airbus A380 belonging to Emirates’ fleet of eleven will deliver the Airbus yet. Meanwhile, the airline will also send some of the flyers in retirement. "The fleet will stabilize at around 115," says Emirates President Tim Clark to the trade magazine flight global, "and then in the middle of the next decade, 90 to 100 sink." In the year 2035 would, however, request the withdrawal of the A380 for Emirates.

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