Emirates is by far the world's largest operator of the A380. The airline has over 100 A380s in service, which represents nearly half of all A380s in service (that means they operate nearly as many A380s as the other dozen airlines with the plane combined). As a result, Emirates flies the A380 to some other…
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The A380 doesn't have much cargo room relative to the 777, since you have one cargo deck carrying two passenger decks' worth of bags instead of one passenger deck's worth, and apparently Emirates carries huge amounts of lobster as cargo departing from Boston. I don't know if it's enough to keep them from using an A380 on the route permanently, but it's one factor in the equation.
The few times I flew BOS-DXB in the last 3 years, flight was packed. Economy anyways...
An A380 would improve pax comfort
I really hope they add the A380 flights on a permanent basis. Would be nice to see the gates that Massport built exclusively for the A380, (it has 2 doors vertically, not horizontally so it can only be used for the A380) be used more, because now they feel slightly useless, considering Boston only gets seasonal 3x weekly service. From what I've heard the airline, doesn't like that their plane will have to be towed to a remote stand for the 9 hours of ground time because in Terminal E (international terminal) all gates are common use, so Massport doesn't like losing a widebody gate (especially during peak hours) for a plane to just sit there, but Emirates doesn't want their plane to be towed. From what I understand they are going to tow it to a remote stand and test how the towing is.
From the 8th of July Emirates will become the first airline to operate an A380 to Pakistan when it flies to the new Islamabad airport
@Bgriff: They will ask each passenger to bring on a box of lobsters and put them in the unused carry-on bins.
Great to hear that about Boston, but it seems Emirates is adding A380 service to many places. They now have a daily A380 flight to Athens (YAAAAAYYY!) (NOT continuing to Newark though) and are going to send an A380 daily to Hamburg. I'm not sure if this has anything to due with their planes sitting on the ground due to lack of pilots.
"The airline has over 100 A380s in service, which represents nearly half of all A380s in service (that means they operate nearly as many A380s as the other dozen airlines with the plane combined)."
Thanks for explaining what the word "half" means!