Emirates Plans Big Aircraft Order To Replace A380s

"...wouldn’t have the same capacity as the A350." Should say A380.

Think you meant “same capacity as the A380” and not A350.

I think Emirates will standardize on the B777 and A350 families, rather than add the 787. The economics will likely be a lot better.

I hope they are going to improve their hard product, their 777 business class is horrible. I like Emirates but only on their 380

Hot take: With Rolls-Royce just having reached an important milestone with the new UltraFan engine development, Emirates could become the launch customer of an A350-1000NEO with said UltraFan (or potentially even for a further stretched A350-1100).

I hate this so much to death.

Most likely scenario is a transition of the 787-9 order for 787-10 aircraft. Emirates is bound to the A350 contract due to previous A380 swap agreements and will have plenty of A350-900s configured in both long-range and regional variations. Due to the EASA mandate for A380 wing inspections, I can only imagine there is a compensation agreement that translates into the A350-1000 variant joining the fleet to the tune of 50-75 aircraft as well as a top up of A350-900s to the tune of 50 aircraft. If you assume those 787-9s convert to roughly 20 787-10 aircraft, well, there is your 150 order.

I love flying on the A380 so much, hate the 777, cramped noisy!

Just hoping when we fly from Birmingham to Dubai next September we get to fly on the A380

I want see varient of plans in Emirates. Like being B737 - 8/900.max.and also B787-9/10.with airbus350...

Flying on the A380 from Glagow in October to Sri Lanka via Dubai.

Flying on the A380 from Glasgow in October to Sri Lanka via Dubai.

Emirates considers the 787-10 as underpowered in hot and high conditions. It's the reason they got the 787-9! Now suddenly everything changes and they decide to get more of a plane Boeing is struggling to deliver in numbers?
It's more likely to see a large A350-1000 order since Boeing is slacking with delivering the 777-9. Even if Boeing starts to deliver in 2025 it's a nerf wrecking situation for an airline CEO to wait and see, if GE can solve the issues with the GE9X engine. Then it's better to have a proven, solid alternative at hand, that does the job in many other airlines today.
There is a good chance Airbus will do another A350 stretch when R&R is finally getting the Ultrafan together. It would be the prefect replacement for the A380 - slightly less capacity, but amazing efficient and ultra range.
So book A350 production slots now and get the a stretched A350-xxxx tomorrow.

There is no stretch, that's a far fetched fantasy, even if the a350-1000 is considered it will only be a handfull. Emirates are retrofitting their 777s, even thou not all and will be flying them for a couple more years. The a350-1000 can't fit first class to the specifications emirates requires because it's narrower and Emirates still has 35 777-8s on order. The 777-8 and a350-1000 are two equivalents, with the same ranges and capacities, so there is alot of conflict there.

Emirates doesn't seem interested in dropping the 777-8 order, if they did, I could see room for more a35Ks but they are not.