Emirates is by far the world’s largest operator of the A380, as the airline has 110 of these planes in their fleet. Emirates exclusively has 777s and A380s in their fleet, so they fly very big planes on everything ranging from some of the world's shortest flights, to some of the world's longest flights. As…
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They're better off flying the A380 on longer routes to cities like Dallas. Bunch of idiots
@Lucky - EK have dropped the daily A380 flight to Kuwait City from mid-2017. At present, their shortest A380 flight is the one to Riyadh.
I guess I shouldn't but I find it mind boggling that a country that small has 110 A380s.
Will the plane be anywhere near capacity? Seems totally stupid to me. Get American Eagle to handle the route.
The reader comments are weird. If the airline finds it feasible to run the service, then why do others think its stupid?
It will burn more fuel while taxiing on the ground than in-flight to Muscat. Clowns on government subsidies.
@Frederik, Dubai does not have mountains of oil.... in fact, California produces more oil than Dubai.
Emiratis and people of Oman are wealthy and like the best of the best so it shouldn't come as a surprise that they ll fill the Emirates A 380s to quickly go to beautiful and friendly Oman 's capital city of Muscat and to Dubai for shopping(Tax free gigantic shopping malls )
Emiratis also like to do things with their big families ,like 15 to 30 people of the same family (cousins,grand parents,children etc) and people from Oman too so it makes sense.
Readers who made nasty comments not knowing the countries or the context are a bunch of ignorants & idiots.
Let’s ask their poorly paid service staff with very few legal rights from Southeast Asia, Africa and the Indian Subcontinent how nice they are to them.
I've flown Fly Dubai from Dubai to Muscat. It was a 35 minute flight. Hopefully, Emirates anticipates the volume to meet the capacity of the A380.
Emirates flew the A380 to MCT last year on July 1 to celebrate 25yrs of operating there. It had nothing to do with operational readiness. It was to show their commitment to the country/city and good PR. This new A380 has nothing to do with commercial feasibility either. It's strictly for pilot check rides. Cheaper to do a check ride on a revenue turn to MCT than operate a non-revenue check from DXB/DWC. I wouldn't be surprised if they start doing more of these as they have plenty more A380s coming and a lot of pilots too. Maybe they can fly AUH to feed a bank in DXB. Instead of the livery of Sheikh Zayed waving on the side, they could have the grim reaper to stir up the EY people!
@Nate
The travelling demands between the two destinations are too big for small planes.
Big planes will do.
I am really curious whether the full service which including the amenities kits and etc to be provided for first class passengers?