If most airlines have stopped or dropped orders for the Airbus A380 super-jumbo, it still has one big champion, and Emirates is even adding to its ongoing order by taking two planes originally destined for Japan’s Skymark airline, which backed out of the order.
Emirates currently has 75 A380s, just over 40% of all A380s that have been delivered. When it gets its remaining 65 on order, plus the two additional, it will have over 45% of the fleet. No new orders for A380s have been placed with Airbus since early 2014. Emirates flies the planes in different configurations, ranging from 489 to 615 seats.
Emirates, which is now the world’s largest carrier in numbers of international passengers flown, is also the world’s largest operator of the Boeing 777. It has 146 of the world’s nearly 1300 777s, a model flown by dozens of airlines.
