A recent email I received speaks about the "flooding" of capacity by state-owned EK. Canada is a target. These guys plan to have 650 WIDEBODY aircraft by 2020. Their country has barely 1 million people. Here's the question. What do you think they plan on doing with all those airplanes? Canada's new...

We'll see how long this lasts. EK is pulling the A380 off of NYC and downsizing it to a B777 due to reduced demand. Can't see how YYZ would do better than NYC. First of all JFK gets TWO X B777 daily, YYZ gets 1 B777 3 times a week, now 380..Can you figure it out :roll: Not really. Is the A380 repla...

bmc wrote:We'll see how long this lasts. EK is pulling the A380 off of NYC and downsizing it to a B777 due to reduced demand. Can't see how YYZ would do better than NYC.

First of all JFK gets TWO X B777 daily, YYZ gets 1 B777 3 times a week, now 380..Can you figure it out

Turns out, ignorance isn't really bliss. It's just ignorance.

So it would seem!

complexintentions wrote:At Emirates the the SOP allows the FO to taxi from brake release to brakes set on the stand.

At Captains discretion

complexintentions I see you live in Dubai and presumably work for EK? All about making money...you bet, last year Emirates made 1.5 Billion dollars, paid you 3 months bonus and raised your pay 15%. I didn't hear you complaining Pillaging the employees, hardly. Clawing back some overtime and a few ch...

http://www.thestar.com/article/594534 OTTAWA – Andrew Parker says he's got a surefire plan to create several hundred jobs in Toronto, pump tens of millions of dollars into the region's ailing economy and boost flagging tourism numbers. Best of all, he doesn't need any government handouts to make it ...

The Gulf airlines are extraordinarily well placed to be the beneficiaries of a prolonged economic downturn. In fact, although they too will suffer some pain, the timing of this reversal could hardly have been better. They will emerge from difficult times with their global position greatly entrenche...

Full text of a EK press release today ------------------------------------------- Emirates Airline today unveiled plans to grow the number of flights across its network by 14 per cent in 2009. This year, the Dubai based carrier will add 18 new passenger aircraft to its fleet, increasing seating capa...

Four1oh wrote:I have no hidden agenda, but seriously, 50 A380's??? What's the delivery schedule?

Its actually 58, of which 5 have been delivered, I think.

My guess would be 5 or 6 a year, but hey are way behind schedule from Toulouse.

EK has requested deferred payments on money owed. They're load factor is down and they are feeling it. Dubai has been a bubble for a long time. 50 A380's? :shock: Your source for that information is what? I call BS There is no doubt that the economic situation in the world is deteriorating rapidly ...

Most of this is complete BS, economic downturn yes, but even the IMF says the UAE will not go into recession.
Lazy, sloppy reporting as usual by some one who has never been here.